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Recent visitors have been catching substantial numbers of fish. Most have been running from 1 to 3-pounds, but bigger fish are also showing up. One of the best bets lately has been to fish right up tight to the bank with a variety of plastic baits. Both Senkos and Yum Dingers in a watermelon shade have been especially effective. Most of our customers have been taking from 60 to 80 bass per day. These totals usually include a few fish in the 4 and 5-pound class.
Eight inch watermelon colored Zoom Lizards have also been hot in the same areas. The best bet has been to rig them Texas Style in the morning and switch to a Carolina Rig in the afternoon. This past week one client had a 9-pound, 8-ounce beauty. A dozen
8-pounders were caught on Carolina Rigged plastics or on ½ and ¾-ounce chrome and blue Rat-L-Traps.
Other successful lures, especially for mid-day fishing, have been 4 and 5-inch Storm Swimbaits in shad, white & chartreuse and golden mullet colors. Fishing these baits very slowly and keeping them suspended has been the best technique. El Salto Lake came up 50-feet from its July levels when hurricanes hit this area in September and again in October. Larger bass have been suspending much of the time as a result.
Jimmy Webster, one of our recent visitors, caught a couple of 8-pounders on a ¾-ounce Bomber Fat Free Shad in a fire tiger finish. “Cranking the lure down deep and then stopping it was the key,” Jimmy says. “I found most of my fish suspended from 14 to 16-feet deep.”
Another recent Anglers Inn guest was Bill Fenn. Bill is a fly fisherman. He boated a number of quality bass on his fly rod in the early morning while using a Gummie Fish lure and a popper. Bill wound up averaging per day with 60 to 80 bass with the biggest weighing 5 ½-pounds on his fly rod.
The El Salto lake weather has been a tad weird lately with hot mid-day temps and cold mornings. Recent showers have sparked top water action. Some of our guests have reported excellent results throwing Pop R lures.
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