Weekend on Rayburn

Posted by admin on January 7, 2016

Back from Rayburn this past weekend, and down again this weekend. Fishing is, well it's really fun right now. From what I saw there are lots of fish shallow and lots of fish what I would call mid-deep, say 18-25 feet. This coming weekend a year ago is the weekend Skip Chancellor and I won the Ice Bowl last year with 28.68 and those fish were all 35-37 feet deep. But according to my log the main lake surface temp that day was 46-47 degrees, it's 9-10 degrees warmer than that now, or at least last weekend. I know winter is still lurking, but it the water keeps at the current level or rises at all in the next few weeks I would not be a bit surprised for some pretty decent sacks to get caught out of the bushes in Champs or TTT. Will be an interesting spring with very, very little hydrilla and no pad stems. There is a good amount of coon tail shallow, but my experience is that generally the fish don't set up in it prespawn, I've caught some post spawners there but not pre. Had to snap this shot, you know how you have a fish that aaalllmost touches 14", check out this guys tail, he really wants a ride to a weigh in this year.