Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Reports
Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Report from TPWD (Apr. 8)
FAIR. Water stained; 73 degrees; 0.48’ high. Largemouth bass are good fishing points, vegetation, and shallow nests with worms, crankbait, jigs and spinners. White bass are fair fishing minnows sticking to creek and drops. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs. Catfish are good on live and stinkbait.
Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Reports (1 - 20 of 395)
It’s April, and if you are angler, you need to be out fishing, no matter whether your quarry is bass, crappie, catfish, speckled trout, redfish … etc. It’s just good time to go fishing,...
by Tom Behrens on 4/9/2020
White bass, or “sand bass” as they are commonly called, are a personal favorite to fish of mine. They tend to school, and can be fished very effectively on artificials, which can make for a great...
by Matt Marra on 3/30/2020
NACOGDOCHES, Texas — For the first time since 2006, the Stephen F. Austin State University Bass Fishing Club has won the Abu Garcia College Fishing National Championship. The competition was held Feb. 26...
by Tom Behrens on 3/24/2020
Clint May and Larry Cotten topped 102 entries at the March 15 Outlaw Outdoors Fishing Tournament at Sam Rayburn Reservoir.
Top Ten Teams:1. May-Cotten, five fish, 25.79 lbs.2. Rambo-Clark, five fish, 25.60...
by Tom Behrens on 3/17/2020
George Glass and Trent Manuel finish on top of 256 teams, March 7, at the Skeeter Bass Champs Tournament. Top Ten Teams are:
1. Glass - Manuel, 5 fish, 24.53 lbs.
2. Moorehead - Shofner Jr., 5 fish, 23.42...
by Tom Behrens on 3/10/2020
AUSTIN – If any superstitious anglers are wondering whether the Leap Day weekend is lucky or unlucky for catching the fish of a lifetime, two Texas bass anglers just made the answer very clear.
Angler...
by Tom Behrens on 3/9/2020
Top 10 finishers in the Outlaw Outdoor Team tournament, 2/29/20:
1. Casey Burleigh-Josh Rodgers, 5/5, 30.15 lbs., $10,0002. Phil Addison-Dean Wood, 5/5, 24.10 lbs.3. Matthew Armand-Jarred Williams, 5/5, 23.56...
by Tom Behrens on 3/3/2020
Conversations recently heard from bass anglers…to trailer or not. Not as a boat trailer, but whether to add a something special behind a spinnerbait, jig or swim bait.
“I use a trailer about 95...
by Tom Behrens on 2/28/2020
Winning a tournament is always pretty cool, but winning the way Anthony Sharp did in the second Phoenix Bass Fishing League presented by T-H Marine event in the Cowboy Division presented by A.R.E. is...
by Tom Behrens on 2/18/2020
A record 218 teams showed up to fish the 3rd Sweet Sixteen Tournament presented by Daiwa this past Sunday. Fishing seemed to get a lot better than it had been this year. Twenty-three teams brought in bags over...
by Tom Behrens on 2/17/2020
The annual white bass spawning run has either began or is about to begin on rivers or creeks that feed into popular Texas lakes. With a warm winter like we have had this year, it is possible some fish have...
by Tom Behrens on 2/17/2020
Check out this 14.36 pound lunker, caught by Blake Cockrell at Lake Alan Henry this past weekend. This is the first Legacy Class ShareLunker of 2020.
If you catch a 13+ pound bass and loan it to Texas Parks...
by Tom Behrens on 2/13/2020
Congratulations to Tanner Riley and Kaleb Stewart for their outstanding performance in winning the DETX fifth qualifying tournament and for catching a giant 10.76 lb green monster.
Top 10 finishers: 1 Youth...
by Tom Behrens on 2/13/2020
Cold fronts, high winds, fluctuating water temps and transitioning fish had the fishing jumbled. The patterns the top 10 pros employed throughout the week followed suit at the FLW tournament at Lake Sam...
by Tom Behrens on 1/27/2020
Ryan Pinkston and Scooter Clark took top honors at the Skeeter Bass Champs Team Tournament at Lake Sam Rayborn, Jan. 11, 2020.
TOP 10 TEAMS:
1. Ryan Pinkston - Scooter Clark 5 fish, 25.34 lbs.
2. Chris...
by Tom Behrens on 1/24/2020
Berkley pro John Cox of DeBary, Florida, weighed a five-bass limit totaling 21 pounds, 7 ounces, Thursday to grab the early lead after Day One of the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit at Sam Rayburn Reservoir....
by Tom Behrens on 1/24/2020
When crappie get a little finicky, give them a little something extra to keep the bite going.
Berkley Crappie Nibbles:
One of the more popular crappie teaser are the Berkley Crappie Nibbles, in chartreuse,...
by Tom Behrens on 1/7/2020
The 2020 Phoenix Bass Fishing League presented by T-H Marine opened competition Saturday at Sam Rayburn, featuring a record-setting field size – 230 boaters and 230 co-anglers. The season opener, the...
by Tom Behrens on 1/6/2020
Deep or shallow for bass at this time of the year? Winter normally means dropping water temperatures, but Texas being Texas, if we have 3-4 days of the daily warming, the bass will get more active shallower....
by Tom Behrens on 12/31/2019
Crappie are being taken on traditional crappie baits … jigs and minnows. On the deeper impoundments the fish have been found suspended in 30 feet of water, about 14-16 feet from the surface. You can...
by Tom Behrens on 11/27/2019