January is always tricky on Sam Rayburn, but you add in freezing temperatures and wind everyday in practice it becomes brutal. This week is no different and I’m sure wondering how it’s gonna unfold.
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I can fish in the cold no problem. But cold and strong winds make for a miserable day and fighting white caps is just not in the cards for me anymore
Good luck out there Todd hope you wack em,I'm in the process of purchasing me a 2010 Z518 and I can't wait
Serious question, why did your co only catch one today? Were you scoping floaters over brush piles or doing something else? Just curious. IMHO a co can just as easily zero or catch a few or even limit out regardless what the boater is doing. I feel like scopers get the heat from cos when they shouldn’t all the time. Low fish catches happen for cos. Doesn’t matter how a guy is fishing. Sometimes cos can just suck too.
Not wood
No 7 shad rapp on rocks
Better start fishing out there cause a dude from Ohio just put it on yall
Very similar on Palestine today, but heck at least the lakes are not iced up. I’m ready for March
Weird up here in Wisconsin the lakes are frozen but trees are not
Good luck with your tournament Todd! Hope you catch em buddy!!
I think you will do well in this tournament Todd. It will be what I call an “Instinct” pattern. Let the fish tell you what you need to be doing. Some of these youngbloods will try to force a pattern(FFS likely). You catch 1 big one, then replicate. Right up your alley with your experience level on Rayburn! Good luck!
12 inches of ice here, it'll be fine
Hopefully you catch em buddy! Still have snow on the lawn down here.
BEST OF LUCK
It cold ever wear . Sister lives Ocean Springs Mississippi, they just got 8in snow.
Good Luck!
Wind keeps our lakes from locking up and you can idle through ice up to about an inch thick no problem. Once our lakes lock up you can catch bass from shallow grass through the ice so they definitely use it when the water is cold. Good to see you getting a little taste of what we do every fall. At ice out a lot of bass start going shallow even before you can get a boat in the water and you’d be surprised how active they can be with the water still in the 30’s and the lake still half covered with ice in the spring. I think it’s more about the temperature trend than the temperature.
Drop shot a banjo minnow
Get em sir
Lol don't get jacked at the ramp.
It’s going to be a PAC-MAN Tournament FFS zigzag running around looking for anything to catch before somebody else. About the best way to decide it.
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Good Luck! I had the same problem at Bass Champs…
You da man. Can't believe you're not wearing hand gloves fishing in that cold ass weather. Good luck we're routing for you.
North East North West on that lake or all lakes?