Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Reports
Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Report from TPWD (May 27)
FAIR. Water stained; 73 degrees; 0.07’ low. Largemouth bass are good in vegetation, and the man-made brush piles. No deeper than 13 feet are holding bass with topwaters, rigged worms, and spinners. White bass are fair with minnows. Crappie remain excellent on minnows and jigs nearer shore. Catfish are good on live and stinkbait.
Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Reports (1 - 20 of 400)
Beckville’s Jace Lindsay and Jaxon Evans have the right formula for winning. They are the Deep East Texas High School Fishing Series Anglers of the Year. That gives them a shot at BASS Master High School...
by Tom Behrens on 5/27/2020
After a good day on the lake, your putting everything in the right place, making sure the boat is secure. A part of my end of trip ritual was gathering up all the used or discarded soft plastic worms,...
by Tom Behrens on 5/15/2020
The Tournaments are beginning to return to Texas lakes, but with revised dates and "social distancing" instructions. The following information are rules set by Bass Champs (May 16 Lake LBJ) and Outlaw...
by Tom Behrens on 5/11/2020
According to the fishing reports, crappie fishing is rated good in just about all the lakes in Texas. Terry Sympson at Jackson Hill Marina on Sam Rayburn Reservoir recently reported that 16 year old Kobe Shird...
by Tom Behrens on 4/24/2020
Spring is tradtionaly the best time of the year to catch a trophy bass in Texas. The following is the top 50 bass caught in Texas and shared with Texas Parks & Wild Life ShareLunker Program.Rank-Water...
by Tom Behrens on 4/16/2020
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