Rayburn Update

Posted by ken on October 10, 2017

Went down to Rayburn for a little fun fishing and to donate to a good cause for the weekend. We paid-up, even not having been on Rayburn for several weeks, and fished Keith Comb's benefit tournament. The results were extremely impressive, over 28 to win, nearly 21 to get a check. We certainly had our chances even though we hadn't been on the water, we had a couple nice fish dropping a Yamamoto Flappin Hog in the grass on a 1 ounce tungsten weight, I will say, incredibly impressed how well my Lew's rods and reels performed grass fishing. It's been so long since I have done much of it, I paired a BB1 Pro Speed Spool in a 7.1:1 retrieve ratio with two different rods, a 7'4" Magnum Pitching LCLMPS and a 7'6" Magnum Flipping LCLFRH. Both of these are big, meaty rods. I also for the first time flipped Seaguar's 80# Kanzen braid, super strong, super thin stuff. It appears from what we saw, and heard, that the bigger fish were out deeper, mostly on wood. We had our chances, I had two different fish, including one that felt like I hooked a submarine, that I just could not coax out of a 26' deep brush pile late in the day. Really frustrating to know that you had the bites to do well, if not win. But for zero practice, we had the bites, great fun. Also looks like the fish are trying to school some, we didn't chase them as 3 lber's don't help at Rayburn at the moment, but lots of fun if you're just wanting to go fun fishing. If you are heading down you can catch numbers around the abundant grass, I mean matted to the top, we fished from Fire Tower up the west side all the way to the Canyons, and there are acres and acres of beautiful hydrilla, a little more water, and about 60 degree water temp, and it's going to be one awesome trap bite this year!