Fishing Report

Late Fall/Early Winter Lake Amistad
Fishing Report         

The lake is about 8ft low and slowly falling, the water temps have dropped some with the arrival of the first few cold fronts of the season, as of early Nov the temps have been in the low to mid 60’s.

With the colder temps, the exposed shallow grass has really taken a hit which has busted up the mats of duck weed/pepper grass as well as the exposed hydrilla.   Most areas of the lake that had the deep hydrilla, it has fallen but has left those covered up bushes draped with hydrilla vines.  This makes some incredible cover for the bass due to the fact that it will be isolated or the only cover left after the grass has fallen. They will really congregate around these “Magic Trees” through- out the cold months.

As usual I can name about a dozen different patterns that may work this time of year, from over -sized top water fished slowly in the backs of some of the larger creeks to a football jig off a river channel ledge and just about everything in between.   I have had the best luck lately on square billed cranks around the busted up duck weed,  also a dd22 over and around the draping bushes out in 15 to 20 ft. There has been a decent grass flippin bite, hitting the isolated pods out on the corners and in the drains 15 to 20ft. As always a light Tx rigged worm or creature bait around the shallow and deeper grass catches bass.  I have found a few schools of good fish off river ledges 30 to 50ft with a drop shot,  football jigs and a heavy Carolina rig.

Power tackle has designed and built its own rendition of the Alabama Rig.  The rig is built with the quality of any Power Tackle Product. We all have read and heard how well the bait /baits work in Alabama, I will just say it really works in South West Texas as well… It’s a heavy rig which needs a rod that can handle the cast not to mention the weight of 3 to 5 bass you might have to pull in at a time. The 8ft Power Tackle Swim Bait Special is the right rod for fishing this rig, it has enough back bone for fighting potential  multiples at a time, plus the extreme length of the rod for the casting ease.

 When the majority of the bass start doing the same thing, which means a Solid Pattern can be duplicated lake wide, in certain depths and on certain baits. That’s when the rumors and fishing stories really start up about how many giants were caught and the incredible numbers of solid bass per day….  This happens about 6 to 8 months out of the year.   Folks, we are getting really close to that time of year…

Thanks,

Ray