Joe Pool Lake, Texas

Date Fished: 05/22/05 Water Temperature: 0 Water Clarity: 1

Fished from 4:30pm-8:30pm with Stephen and Ty-I had read reports that the fish were biting baby ring fries and white spinner bait. From 4:30-5:45 I had only caught one using white spinner. At 6:00 we decided to have a little fun tournament between us so I decided to switch to the baby ring fry around 6:30 and landed 3 back to back. My buddies switched lures so fast it was funny. After that it was tournament. All of us had landed 3 but mine were a little bigger and I came home victorious. My buddies did a great job landing the fish and if I am not mistaken that is the most Bass I have seen Ty catch. Way to go dude! With the exception of the hundreds of boaters and jet skiers on the lake it turned out to be a great fishing day.

Joe Pool Lake, Texas

Date Fished: 05/12/05 Water Temperature: 70 Water Clarity: 2

Made a quick outting and fished with a old friend "Wally" for the first time. I have know him since I was a kid and he had fished with my grandfather and father. He came up to help me with fixing up my house and I wanted to take him fishing. The weather was nice with mostly cloudy skies and little wind. I managed to catch a few by new grass lines and showed him that I can atleast fish. He didn't catch any bass, but did hook into a bedding carp which I thought was funny.

BTW People have been emailing me how big Joe Pool is and it's a 7, 400-acre impoundment.

Bill Sheka - Baffin Bay/Land Cut

Date Fished: 05/07/05 Water Temperature: 73 Water Clarity: chocolate brown

Bill Sheka guided Edward and I Saturday. He took us to the end of the land cut and fished about the 22 marker. We were facing some of the worst conditions - 40mph winds, bad croaker (if not bruised then dead), chocolate bays, and rough water. Despite all the conditions, Bill Sheka managed to put us on some nice lunkers. Edward ripped into some monster trout, he had a great day on his birthday. I had a great day as well. if we weren't fishing, we were casting, if we weren't casting we were moving to another destination. We only drift fished around a mile radius. We didn't have to move to far to keep up with the fish. Sometimes the fishing got slow but once you moved you were right back on them. We managed to catch all keepers, not one fish was thrown back (except the very first fish that bill caught, he caught the famous hardhead but called it the grey marlin - we teased him on this one). I have never fished were I didn't at least catch one dink. in all we got 14 good size keepers and 6 beauties adding to 42lbs. We had an assist on our biggest fish. The biggest fish went around 5lbs and 24" 1/4. Bill hooked it and said "This one is nice, Take it Stephen. But you better not lose it." Bill was so happy, he wanted us to limit out so bad so he was estatic when we did. He wanted to win the contest. At first I didn't know what he was talking about. He kept saying "even if we don't win, we have an awesome stringer. This is the best day I have had with clients all this year." I finally found out what the winning was all about when we got back to the marina. They take the biggest catch and take a picture. Then they put your picture on their website as catch of the day. When we got back to the marina they said we had the best catch and they posted up our fish and took our picture. They still haven't put the picture up yet - its still on 05/01/05.

Toledo Bend- Hemphill, Texas II

Date Fished: 05/8/05 Water Temperature: 70 Water Clarity: 1

Just finished the Bassmaster Series-Toledo Bend- Hemphill, Texas
I learned my lesson from last time and used "gold" willow leaf blades on my spinnerbait and a chartuese/white skirt, only problem is we never got on the fish. I landed one early, but we had a hard time finding more. My boater landed a nice 3 five minutes before we had to leave on spinnerbait. The weather was great with a little wind 8-10mph, but unfortunatly the bite was after 3:00. Hope everyone had a good fishing weekend!