Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Reports
Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Report from TPWD (Jan. 15)
GOOD. Water stained; 53 degrees; 1.82’ low. Largemouth bass are good on crankbaits, spinners and plastic worms working warm water, and ledges White bass are good on minnows and small cranks on humps. Crappie are good on minnows and jigs among deeper brush piles. Catfish are good on live and stinkbait.
Lake Sam Rayburn Fishing Reports (1 - 20 of 379)
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
Braxton Resweber, the St. Martinville Louisiana bass angler and his UL Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns Bass Fishing Team partner, T.J. Norris of New Iberia, had a solid five-bass limit in the livewell, weighing...
by Tom Behrens on 11/25/2019
The team of Tommy Hill and Bubba Frazier captured Team of the Year for Outlaw Outdoors Fishing Tournaments. The second place team of Will West, Jr and Dean Ady, Jr was on their heels as was the third place...
by Tom Behrens on 11/25/2019
Seventy-two teams enjoyed the awesome weather on Sam Rayburn while not only taking part in The Outlaw Outdoors November Open Tournament, but also helped make Christmas better for a lot of kids in Jasper...
by Tom Behrens on 11/20/2019
As the winter approaches, the crappie should start moving upriver and stream channels in Texas’ large water impoundments, locating on underwater brush or other structure. Some will prefer bridge pilings....
by Tom Behrens on 11/6/2019
High School youth from all over East Texas teamed up to fish in the Deep East Texas Qualifier 1 on Lake Sam Rayburn, Oct. 12, 2019. Jace Lindsay and Jaxon Evans, students at Beckville High School, took first...
by Tom Behrens on 10/15/2019
It looks like it’s getting that time of the year when jigs, worms (big) are the choice of bass. The lures that caught winning fish at FLW Tournament on Grand Lake in Oklahoma were mostly an assortment of...
by Tom Behrens on 10/8/2019
Mother Nature gave the anglers an almost perfect day for the Outlaw Outdoors Average Joe Tournament. Seenty-nine teams decided to forego the opening weekend of bow season and opt to fish the Average Joe...
by Tom Behrens on 10/3/2019
When fishing for catfish remember: “The worse it smells, the better.” When I lived in Oklahoma City, a friend and I would have it all set up to leave from work on Friday afternoons, heading to Ft...
by Tom Behrens on 9/27/2019
BROOKELAND, Texas (Sept. 23, 2019) – Boater Glen Freeman of Zwolle, Louisiana, brought a two-day total of 10 bass to the scale weighing 43 pounds, 13 ounces, to win the two-day T-H Marine FLW Bass...
by Tom Behrens on 9/24/2019
There is something about the V&M Baits Tournament that brings out the best in Roy Carroway and Dewayne Reese. In the 2018 V&M Tournament, this duo weighed in 25.48 pounds to handily win the event by...
by Tom Behrens on 9/16/2019
According to some, Rayburn has been fishing tough and being stingy. Howard Guilott and Brad Hensley did not get the memo. Their THREE fish limit weighed 22.68 pounds leaving them over 6 pounds heavier than the...
by Tom Behrens on 9/5/2019
Bass Champs Tournament results, 7/13/19
1. RUSTY CLARK, SAM RAYBURN , TX CORY RAMBO, ORANGE , TX 17.46
2 BOBBY VICE, GROVES , TX RICKY GUY, HUMBLE , TX 17.08
3 PHILLIP CRELIA , CENTER ,...
by Tom Behrens on 7/15/2019
The Annual 4th Of July Tournament presented by Daiwa saw 138 teams take advantage of the National Holiday and try their hand at winning a share of the $18,000 payout on Sam Rayburn. When the dust settled, the...
by Tom Behrens on 7/8/2019
Sam Rayburn ReservoirRapala DT10, DT14 and DT16 crankbaits were all crucial in Terry Bolton’s first FLW Tour win. To target prespawn bass on the big Texas reservoir, Bolton opted for the demon and...
by Tom Behrens on 7/6/2019
Bassmaster Magazine is ranking Lake Sam Rayburn as the third best fishing lake in its latest rankings. The rankings are based on the amount of fish and their weight.
Professional Angler Keith Combs said the...
by Tom Behrens on 7/6/2019
Jason Bonds and James Nitschke won over $50,000 at the Techron TX Shootout on Sam Rayburn, on June 23. Total fish caught in the tournament by all anglers was 409 bass with total weight of 1,307 lbs....
by Tom Behrens on 7/3/2019