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(Big Falcon Fish)
Falcon Lake Tournament Report: Read Larry Hodge's article in Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine on Choke, Falcon and Amistad Del Rio Tournament activity
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August 4, 2008: The San Antonio Bass Club was in town over the weekend, and they had some pretty awesome results. Twenty five anglers fished a paper tournament, and we commend them for their efforts in in preserving our resources. Kevin Reissig, who also guides here on Falcon, had a two day weight of 66.22 pounds of fish.. yikes.. And I thought I was catching a few.. In second place, with a paltry 55.07 was Chad Glasscock. Third place finisher was Rodney Marbach, with a 50.50 total. In the Ladies division it was Kathy Woodruff with a six fish bag of 18.88. The weights were compiled by using a chart that estimates from the length and girth.. Steve Cohrs had the big fish of the event with a 13.20, according to the chart. I would have had to put that fish on a scale of some sort..
Hmmm.. That spot looks kinda Familiar..
July 25,26 2008: Alamo Bass Club was in town for a two day scrum, and they fished the lower end of the lake, headquartering out of the state park. After it was all said and done, there was quite a lot that got done.. Bryan Jones had the big bass of the event, and the 9.80 helped him to a first place finish with 44.33 pounds. Bryan always seems to be around the top spot and this week was no different. In second was Gordan Whitaker with 25.28. Clarence Schwarz has 23.67 for third, and in fourth was Kenny Kunz, with 23 even. In the women's division Lori Ormod had 11.88, and Vivian Schwarz had 10.51. In the teen division Clarence Schwarz had a nice tournament with 23.67 pounds. We here at FLT salute you for getting, and keeping the family involved. And Thanks for putting fish care in the forefront.
Bryan Jones with a 9.80 on left, (top) and Brettt Wetherell with a 8.39.. Nice Job guys!
July 26, 2008: This is a late report on Atascosa Bass Clubs tourney from last weekend. Craig White had a fantastic 31.13 pounds on Saturday to take about a nine pound lead into day two of fishing Sunday. Keith Sutherland had 22.83 and was in second after day one.. In third was Pat White with 21.85.. Sunday: Craig followed up Saturdays performance with another good bag of fish, as he brought 17.86 to the scale. He finished with top honors with a two day weight of 48.99. Darrell Garza brought in the heavy bag of the day with 22.55 pounds to finish second over all.. His two day weight was 38.81. He barely out-ounced Keith Sutherland that had a two day weight of 38.72, to finish third. Half of the club fished Choke and Half fished Falcon. The top four weights all came from Falcon.
July 12 UCBC Update: After day two, Fred Beard has set a new two day club record for a ten fish limit.. He brought a total of 52.80 pounds to the scale. The heavy team record also went down, as Beard and Worley caught a combined 92.53 pounds of fish. The top seven stringers for the tourney were fourty two pounds or better. That's pretty good fishin! July 12 2008: There were a lot of boats on the water today, as four tournemaents were being held here on Falcon. I do not have details on all of them but I'll give you what I have. We were able to attend UCBC's weigh in at Beacon, and there werre a few nice stringers brought in. However the big bass seemed to elude most of the anglers. Stan Foltz caught the heaviest fish, that weighed in at 9.52 pounds. But catching the big fish did not get him in the top three.. Fred Beard had the big bag of the day, with a very impressive 29.32 pounds. He had all solid fish but no monster..In second was Weldon Pierce with 24.98, and in third, but barely, was Jeff Mergle with 24.91.
Stan and Bernice In the Ladies division it was Pat Martin with 15.32, and Bernice Willhelms with 13.81. In the young ladies race, Katie Mergle had a five fish sack that weighed 13.92. Trevor Friesenhahn had a 15.92 limit in the boys division. There were about forty fishermen participating in the two day event. We'll have final results later.. In the McAllen Bass Anglers race it was John Struthers with the day one lead as he had a twenty eight pound plus stringer, that included two eights. Joe Martinez had over 23 pounds for second. J. D. Penny was in third with 20.3. They are weighing in at the State Park, and being that is in another time zone I was not able to get there. So these weights are very close but not official as they are what were reported to me from folks through the store. And thanks for the report fellows! The Zapata group, that weighed in at the county ramp, had some pretty impressive three fish weights.. Polo Garcia had the big bag of the day with 21.96, followed closely by Luis Gonzalez, with 21.92. In third it was Danny Villarreal with 20.91. These guys are doing this most every week, and I hear there is a second group fishing Sunday.. So if you are in town it is a decent bet that you can get in on a jackpot tourney most weekends. But you better bring some serious weight to the scales if you want in on the money.. Have not heard from Helotes Bass Club but we'll pass on the details when we get them. We'll give you more details as they become available! June 30, 2008: Day two of the Atascosa tournament saw a new name take to the top of the list, as Darrell Garza brought 22.73 pounds to the scale, and coupled with his 19.62 from Saturday, he was in the running for top honors.. But when the last fish went into Keith Sutherlands bag, he had just enough to keep the top spot. By two hundredths of a pound. They had 42.37 and 42.35 respectively. And just back of them was Craig White, with 42.14.. Talk about a tight finish.. Tinker Pfullman's 8.25 held up for big bass, but Darrell did have a 7.18 to anchor his Sunday big bag. There were a lot of nice fish caught. And a lot of them were caught in the Veleno. High winds played havoc with the fishermen but persistency paid off for for most of them. There were a lot of tired batteries by the end of the weekend. Thanks all of you guys for stopping the store! June 29, 2008: The Atascosa Bass Club is holding a roadrunner this weekend, and seven anglers chose to fish at Falcon. After Saturdays bout with the bass and high winds Keith Sutherland brought 26.32 pounds to the scales, and that included a 8.25 pound big bass. There were four other stringers over twenty pounds, and under twenty one.. That's a pretty tight race. Pat White is in second with 20.98, and Craig White is in third with 20.74. Tinker and Shane Pfullman were in fourth and fifth, with 20.44 and 20.11 respectively. There were stories of several fish that escaped the net. More later.. June 21, 2008: There were two small tourneys in town today, one of them a private affair that involved a bunch of members of the Uvalde Bass Club, and the Zapata Bass Club had their monthly tourney.. But they held it last weekend too.. Oh well.. Maybe it is now a weekly tourney. The Uvalde group had sixteen fishermen participating, and the results were good, with some nice stringers being weighed.. Jimbo Beard had heavy stringer with 27.93, and his big fish weighed 7.56, and he also had a 6.68. In second was Pete Arredondo, with 19.40 pounds. Pete had a 5.63 and a 5.18 pound fish to secure the spot. In third was Tatie Hernandez with 18.67. He had 6.10 big fish. But the big fish of the day was caught by Lucas Hiler, and it tipped the scales at 8.02 pounds. There were a few sacks that came in with less than a limit, but not too many. We took some pictures of the weigh in but as it turns out, they were short movies.. Damn camera setting buttons.. This never happened with my Brownie Hawkeye.. We'll get some pics from the guys and post them asap.. The Zapata Bass Club had a less than normal turnout, but it was their second tournament in a week. They fish a three fish format and it usually takes around twenty pounds to get the money. There were about 12 entry's in a winner take all contest, and it took 21 pounds to win. That's pretty salty.. We ran the weigh in for the Uvalde group so we have limited info on the locals.. And no Pics.. If your bass club is coming to town it is possible that we could help with your weigh ins... But we need some advance notice..
June 15, 2008: The Zapata Bass Club threw together a quickie Bass Tournament on Saturday, in light of their regularly scheduled tournament that fell on Fathers Day. There were about 15 teams that fished, and the results were pretty darn good. There were two fish weighed in that tied for Big Bass. Both weighed 11.80 pounds. Ouch! I told you the fish were ready to bite.. This was a winner take all event and there was a pretty good payday for the winners that had 20.42 for their best Three fish.. Not too shabby. I have been home alone here at the shop this week and could not make it to the weigh in. There were also a lot of eights and nines weighed in. Most every boat had at least one good fish. On Memorial Day weekend the Freedom Bass Club was in town, and they held a three fish a day event also. Denny Rosenfeld led wire to wire, after catching a first day limit of 19.62 pounds. Steve Bell had the big bass of day one with a 9.55 pound whopper. There was also a nine even caught by Ira Lynn, and a 8.15 caught by Troy Lynn. Them Lynn boys were on some good fish it appears. Ira and Steve were in second and third respectively, with 18.29 and 17.45. On day two, Denny caught just enough to stay on top with a stringer weighing 14.37. Ira Lynn caught the heavy bag of the day, at 15.42, but he finished a couple ounces behind Denny.. Steve Bell held on to the third spot. The winning weight was 33.99 pounds. Better than a five pound average.. May 19, 2008: We were able to attend the SWRI and The Alice Bass Clubs weigh-ins yesterday afternoon, and there were some good results for both clubs. The Southwest Research Club weighed in at Beacon at 1:30, and there were a couple of nice fish brought to the scales. I told you that Jerry Campos was no stranger to big fish, and he brought in this beautiful 10.10 bass for the big fish of the day. Charlie Berger (on rt, or bottom) had this 9.06, and with his stringer from Saturday, he had enough to hold off Jerry by a couple of pounds.
The final results were Charlie Berger with 44.12 pounds, followed by Jerry Campos with 42.44. Joe Maskill finished third, with a respectable 33.46. Glad you are enjoying that new RPM rod Joe.. Thanks to all you fellows for your support! The Alice Bass Club had fourty two fishermen compete at their event. And it was one of the nicest days to fish you have ever seen. Cool temps and a very light wind made for some great fishing conditions. They allowed a lot of local folks to participate also and it was a great turnout for their club. They fished a three fish format, and we highly commend them for it. They held their weigh-in at 3:00 at the county ramp, and there were a LOT of fifteen pound stringers brought in. But fifteen pounds wasn't going to get it done.. Patrick Starnes brought in 22.67 pounds to take top honors. In second was Tom Haralson, with 21.07, and in third was Bobby Z. with 16.70. Rick Gonzales took the last check in fourth place. An 8.95 was the big bass of the day. A lot of local folks have really gotten into the fishing here at Falcon. It is good to see and we are spreading the word to lots of youngsters. With a good dose of the "Catch and Release" lecture mixed in. It is up to us a tournament fishermen to lead the way in conservation of our big fish. Treat em' nice and we'll have plenty. It's not any harder.. See yall next time.. Thanks to Sandy Vela and Pat Ball for the help, and thanks to all of you who came by the store! May 17, 2008: The Zapata Bass Club was back in action today, and they had sixteen teams show up to see who could bring in the three biggest fish. Ramiro Reyes brought 19.02 pounds of fish to the scale top take top honors. That's about a six and a third pound average. Yikes! In second was Tim Griffin, with 16.94, and in third, but just barely, was Israel, with 16.92. This is a great bunch of guys, and anyone is welcome to fish their team tournament, held once a month. They usually fish on Sunday but made an excepton this weekend for some fishermen to be able to fish with the Alice Bass Club tomorrow. I'll get the details on the next one and let you know when it is scheduled. It is a good affordable team tourney, and you can afford to fish it alone if you wish. The Southwest Research Bass Club is in town, and they weighed in at the State Park this afternoon. Larry Crebs had a 12.18 pound fish to anchor his first place sack that tipped the scales to twenty pounds and some change. In second was Charlie Berger, with 19.44, and he had an eight even in his limit. Jerry Campos, who is no stranger to big fish, is in third with 18 plus pounds. They weigh in tomorrow at 1:30 at Beacon and I will try to make it over for some pics and final results.. Thanks Charlie Berger for the results! April 5, 2008: There was also a tournament sponsored by the international bass club from Los Dos Laredos. And last weekend they had their annual couples tournament.. And if you saw the cluster of boats in the Diablo about 2:30 then you saw them weighing their fish.. Looked like a good idea to me.. Not sure who won but they had a great time.. Sergio Herrea caught this 10 pound plus fish for Big Bass honors..
May 5, 2008: San Antonio Bass Club brought twenty three fishermen to Falcon, and their results were about the same as the other clubs that came to town.. Dennis Asher had a two day weight of 46.38 pounds to take top honors. Rodney Marbach had 42.15 for second, and Cody Glasscock 41.39. Kathy Woodruff had 6.05 on the womens side.. Big Bass of the event was a 7.98 pound whopper caught by Bill Meckel. The club caught 159 fish that weighed 522.82 pounds for an average weight of 3.29 pounds. 1.2 milion dollars worth of equipment was used to catch these 159 fish.. But not one of the fishermen had a $69 dollar digital camera.. :-).. Just kidding guys.. Thanks for the info! Next time I will be there to take the pics! SAPD on Saturday had three top places over twenty pounds. With the heavy bag of the day was Shawn Markgraf with 23.66 pounds.. In second was Richard Flores with 22.64 and in third was Sonny Osbourne Jr. with 21.65. In the womens division Susan Osbourne had 15.20, and Pam Barnes had 9.87. There were a lot of limits weighed in, and the folks at SAPD always have a good time. I do not have any pics from this weekend as I was fishing the Rebel club tourney and my time machine is on the fritz and I could not make it to the other weigh ins.. UPDATE: The final day of fishing produced some really nice fish for the SAPD anglers.. Here's the results! First Place honors went to Johnny Barnes III, with 47.93 pounds. He had a 26.73 pound stringer on Sunday! Nice Going Johnny!
In second was Shawn Markgraf with 42.63 pounds.
Rounding out the top three was Richard Flores with 42.43 pounds
And Of Course there was Barry Myers with the biggest bass of the weekend at 12.88 pounds.. That's a Toad!
Womens division was won by Susan Osborne with 20.08 pounds. In second was Pam Barnes with 19.31 and in third Mel Villarreal had 6.59 pounds. Thanks to Pam Barnes for the Pics! Rebel Bass Club had their two day event also over the weekend and had some pretty good stringers were weighed in on Saturday. Joey Brown had a very nice 25.13 pound sack of fish, including a 7.16 pounder to take the day one lead. In second and third places were the Tauer Boys, Eric and Wayne, with 21.34 and 20.06 respectively. Earl Lackey had the big fish of the day with a 7.77 pound beauty, and he also had another big six. But he only brought four fish to the scales, or the leader board would have been rewritten. There were three 19 pound plus stringers also weighed in. On Sunday the fish Gods smiled on yours truly and I managed a 23.78 pound stringer to come out on top. I caught an 8.66 and a 7 plus in the mix.. Two day total of 43.37..Like I said.. Anybody can catch em.. In second was Joey Brown with 40.26, after fetching 15.13 pounds from the livewell on Sunday. In third was Wayne Tauer with a second day stringer of 19.60, and that gave him a two day weight of 39.66. I hate to do this...
April 28, 2008: The BASS Federation had 51 fishermen turn out for their pilgrimage to Falcon, and many of the anglers had fished Saturdays tournament also. The predicted high winds and rain never materialized till weigh in, so the fishaemen had a really nice day of it with pre-front conditions and little wind. To no ones surprise, Terry Oldham finished on top with a three fish limit of 20.43 pounds, anchored by an 8.90 big bass. I gues he didn't get em all out of that hole on Saturday. Tim Reneau had a good day also and he brought 18.98 pounds to the scales for second. In Third was Craig Crimm with 18.93 pounds and he had a nice 7.83 in his sack. (see pic below) Terry weighed in a little early and I did not get a pic of him or his fish, but I reckon that he got plenty of camera time on Saturday.
Craig Crimm 7.83 These fellows did a good job with the fish also and I will have to say that it is nice to actually have a dock that is available for boat use. Thank You County of Zapata! And thank you Bass Federation for going to a three fish format.. April 27, 2008: The Bass Champs South Region rolled thru town yesterday for its annual assault on Falcon, and the results were about what we expected. I actually thought someone would show up with fourty pounds, but a measely 37.84 pounds was enough to take the top honors. So you missed your chance at an easy victory if you decided not to fish.. Out of the 201 teams that participated Terry Oldham and Jaime Buitron ended up on top, and that didn't surprise too many people. They're no strangers to the stage. In second was John Mills and Scott Burris with a very respectable 34.48 pounds, and Tim Reneau and Judy Churchill rounded out te top three with 34.06. I am not sure exactly when the bar got set so high around here to win a tourament.. I guess it started a few years ago when the technology caught up with the fishermen. There were always a few fishermen that could catch a big bag. But it does help to have a lake full of six to ten pound fish.. These newfangaled depthfinders are pretty neat.. I think I'm gonna get me one and pass down to the younguns my rope with the rock tied to it. Had it for years and the battery has never gone dead.. On a personal note, I fished the tournament also and we managed a tie for ninth place finish.. But we weighed over thirty pounds and that was a first for me in a tournament. So you know the fishing is good!
April 20th 2008: The CAST tournament finally made its stop at Falcon for the year, and the results were not as good as some expected.. The day was cloudy, and all the anglers said that the fish bit much better yesterday with the sun out.. Robby and Dawne Robinson brought 26.54 pounds of fish to the scale, bolstered by Robbies big fish of the contest that stretched the spring to 10.24 pounds. In second was Larry and Pat Martin with 22.60, and in third was Stan and Mary Hall with 19.35. In fourth was Dennis and Linda Bald, with 17.82. Here's a couple of pics of the event.
April 13, 2008: We have had a shortage of clubs in town over the last couple of weeks, but in the next couple weekends we have several fishing Falcon. The CAST tournament is this weekend, and the Bass Champs circuit is headed our way in two weeks. (26th) we have seen quite a few pre-fishermen for Bass Champs in town already. And it looks like we will see some big stringers for that event.. We hope to see you in the store! March 12th 2008: The McAllen Bass Anglers were also in town last weekend.. And we were not able to attend their weigh ins.. But we did get their results today.. They too were faced with some tough conditions on the lake, with high winds and big waves.. But when the bilge pumps were turned off John Struthers came out on top with a two day weight of 36.48 pounds. J. D. Penny weighed in 24.37 pounds for second, and Joe Martinez finished in third with 21.71.. Al Malone had 20.33 for fourth place.. I did not hear about any big bass.. But if you have any pics please forward them to me. March 12th 2008: Finally got some results from the tournament held in Mexico, (Guerrero) last weekend.. I got the results in Spanish so I am going to do the best that I can.. Sergio Herrera and Ricardo Guerrero won the event. I understand that there are ten fish max weighed in, and that these two anglers had a total weight of 21.86 Kilos.. That's a little over 50 pounds for the team weight. I get a headache when I do math so I'll let you do the exact math. But these are some nice fish..
Not sure who caught which so I will just post both pics.. Good job guys! March 9th, 2008: The McAllen Bass Anglers and the Centex Bass Club are in town this weekend, and we managed to get to the Centex weight in at Beacon. They had about twenty fishermen make the trip, and they some fair to fantastic results. Chris Koski had the heavy stringer on Saturday, and he brought a sackfull of fish to the scale that weighed 27.10 pounds. He had a 7-9 and a 7-10, so that makes a twenty pound bag pretty easy.. In second was Johnathan Fry, (I hope I got his name right) and he had a great stringer also, weighing in at 24.60 pounds. He also had the big fish of the day at 10.50. See pic below.. William Taggert came in with 17.15 pounds to grab third place. Elton Brock also had a big bass at 8.70 pounds.We hope to have the final results later tomorrow..
Chris Koski on Left.. Johnathan Fry on Right.
Please let me know the names and faces I screwed up..
February 25, 2008: Starr County Bass Club was also at Falcon last weekend.. I will have their results asap.. Also Austin Bass Club was just here this weekend and we will post results as soon as we get the final word. We have had a lot of ground to cover lately and if I could just stay off the lake I might get somethin done. But I consider fishing research.. I don't want to spread any unfounded rumors. We'll have those tourney results asap. February 18, 2008: There were about eight tournaments in town over the weekend, and we just were not able to attend all the weigh ins. We will be updating this page as we get more info on the results of these tourneys.. River City Basss Club from austin was in town also last weekend, and according to Martin Warnasch, their club president, they had their best Falcon tourney ever. They fished a team format, and Garrett Nelson and Justin Pollei had twenty fish for 99 pounds to take first place in the event.. Garrett had heavy individul stringer with over 50 pounds for the two days. Bobby Hohmann had the heavy fish of the weekend with a 11.25 pound monster. Send me a picture! Uvalde Bass Club was in town over the weekend also, and we have bits and pieces of info on their results. We hear that Jimbo Beard won the Saturday tourney, (Uvalde fishes two one days) but we do not know who won on Sunday. I heard that Jimbo had twenty something pounds on Saturday. That's a hell of a report I know.. But I am working on it. If anybody has more difinitive info please forward it to me please. UPDATE: Saturday: Ist Jimbo Beard with 21.01 pounds. Second was Bill Surber with 20.12 pounds, and in third was Brian Langner with 17.86. Division II saw Laura Langner take top honors with four fish for 10.16 pounds. Saturdays big fish was caught by Bill Surber with a 5.58 pound fish. On sunday Ricky Villarreal had five for 20.28 pounds, second was Jimbo Beard with four for 16.43.. I hear he had a fish that was abducted by aliens or something.. In third was Lucas Hiler with 15.43 and the big bass of the weekend with a nice 7.04 pounder.. (see pic below) In division II Colton Moore had one fish, but it was a good one at 4.83 pounds. Lucas Hiler had some good luck fishing very shallow water with a crankbait. He said most of their fish were caught in 1.5 to 3 feet of water, way in the backs of creeks. He also sent along a nice pic of a couple of good fish. Thanks!
Left to right: Moore, Surber, Villarreal The Quality Bass Club was also in town last weekend, and they brought fourteen anglers to Falcon, according to their web-site. After the first day, Robert Dunlap was leading the pack, with a nice stringer weighing 22.66 pounds.. He biggest fish was just over 6.5 pounds. In second was Cecil Newberry with 21.41 pounds, and he had the big fish of the day, and the tournament with a 6.77 pound fattie. In third was Stefen Brooks with 15.17.. On Sunday Robert Dunlap once again delivered the goods with the big bag of the day weighing 17.33 pounds. He had a 5.97 pounder in the mix. His two day winning total was 39.99 pounds. Second and third places also remained the same with Newberry catching 9.97 pounds for a total of 31.38. Brooks had 9.38 to make a two day total of 24.55. Bryan Scarberry had a total of 21.03 for the fourth spot. The club as a whole caught 90 fish for a total weight of 251.94 pounds, which is a 2.79 pound average. All this information was gleaned from the Quality web-site. February 18, 2008: The Ingram Bass Club was also in town over the weekend, and they also had some pretty good results. Ryan Balser led after day one with 29.50 pounds, and in that mix he had a 9.15 pound sow. Randy Morrison had a big fish that weighed 10.80 pounds, and that helped him grab second place, with a first day weight of 21.40. Ronny Gazaway had 17.61 for third, and Bobby Balser had 15.89 for fourth after day one. On Sunday Ryan Balser once again had heavy srtinger of the day, with 23.25 pounds. His two day winning weight was 52.75 pounds. Five pound average is pretty salty, I'd say. Randy Morrison and Bobby Balser both had 22.37 pounds on day two, and that put Randy in second when added to day one's total. He had 43.47 after the second day. But it was enought to move Bobby into third place, with a total weight of 38.12. Ronny Gazaway rounded out the top four with a two dy weight of 37.18. Nice Going Guys! The club caught 77 fish for a total weight of 254.02 pounds.. Average weight was 3.30 pounds.
Atascosa Bass Club also fished Falcon over the weekend, and they had good results also. Craig White led the contest from wire to wire. On Saturday he had 28.58 pounds, and he told me at the store that he had no good fish.. Let's see.. 28.58 divided by 5... Naught from Naught leaves Naught and carry the one and uhhh.. I figgure that 5.71 pounds per fish is pretty darn good.. I'm gonna have to have a talk with that boy. I'm sure he had no good fish on Sunday either as he brought 24.80 to the scale, and finished with 53.38 pounds. Jim Marsh had 23.35 on Saturday, and 17.20 on Sunday to take second place honors, and I am sure he did not have any good fish either.. He had a two day total of 40.56 pounds. In third was Ted Wayland, with 13.95 on Saturday and a nice 21.31 on Sunday. He finished with 35.27 for the two day total. I hear that most of the better fish were caught on plastics in 7-8 feet of water. Alice Bass Club fished a one day affair on Sunday, and after all the boats were on the trailers Justin Snelling finished on top with 21.11 pounds, He also had big bass of the contest with a nice 6.55 pound fish. In second was Sandy Vela with 20.64, and in third was Victor Perez, with 17.77 pounds. Both Sandy and Victor had big fives in their bags.. The Alice club had eighteen anglers attend the event and there were a lot of mid-teen weights brought to the scale. I hear that most fish were caught with big soft plastics in less than six feet of water. Thanks to Sandy Vela for this report. February 13, 2008: The clubs in town over last weekend had some pretty good results, and I will tell you what I know.. Universal City Bass Club brought 48 folks to town to fish Falcon, and as you might imagine, a few of tem really found the fish and put a whuppin on em.' Jeff Mergle had 26.62 pound on Saturday, including a great 9.18 pound beauty. On Sunday he had 18.05, enough to keep him on top to win the event by about five pounds. Weldon Pierce finished second, with a two day weight of 39.62, and in third was Emile Larose, with 37.43. Big bass was caught by Lee Rihn and it tipped the scale to the tune of 9.34 pounds. In the couples division was Larry and Patt Martin, with 19 fish for 66.93 pounds, and heavy team was Stan McHardy and Weldon Pierce with twenty fish for 73.70 pounds. In the boys division was it was Garrett Tschirhart with three fish for 8.35 pounds, and in the girls division, Kasey Hunter had one fish for 2.84. We at FLT commend UCBC for getting the family involved in fishing. Way to go guys! (And Gals)
San Antonio Bass Club brought twenty eight members to town, and the top three finishers all ended up with decent stringers of fish. Cody Glasscock had ten fish for 45.58 pounds, enought to take top honors. Rodney Marbach also had a limit both days, and his two day weight was 37.78. In third with eight fish for the two days was Wayne Bell, who had 30.83 pounds. Big bass was caught by Joe Aker, and it weighed 8.o4 pounds. In the PeeWee division was Travis Saenez with six fish for 16.50.. And Dillon Orne had one bass, but it was s good one at 5.33. You adults better watch out for Travis..
In the Ladies division it was Kathy Woodruff with 13.70 pounds, and in second was LillianGutierrez with 8.23. Average fish weight in this tourney was 3.19 pounds. Once again, Thanks for getting the family involved! Congrats to the winners! Send me those fish pics! February 5, 2008: There are three bass clubs coming to town this weekend. In no Particular order, they are Universal City Bass Club, Helotes Bass Club, and San Antonio Bass Club. If you are a member of one of these clubs and you only get to fish a few tournaments a year, I recommmend that you make this one. These fish are on the move to the shallows. I am not saying that every fish in the lake is on the nest... But a lot are.. And more are on the way.. We have some decent weather predicted for this weekend, for whatever that's worth, and the fishing should be off the charts.. If you manage to get in the right spot at the right time you can get Sunday Fed in a hurry. We'll update the Flash Report as warranted in the next few days. Put some new braid on your stick and get down here! January 25, 2008: I finally got the final results in from Freedom Bass club last weekend.. Ira Lynn brought in the heaviest stringer of the tournament on Sunday, and he made the leap from third to first. His sack weighed 23.08, and it was about six pounds heavier than anybody elses.. Janet Zipperer also brought in a five fish limit that weighed 14.08, and it secured second place for her. Taking third place was Troy Zipperer, with a second day bag of 15.08.. Guest Angler Jim Carroll caught the big fish of the weekend on Sunday with a 9.94 pound hog.. Somebody send me a picture please! Alamo Bass Club was also at Falcon this month and and from what I understand Bryan Jones continued his winning ways by weighing in 22.71 pounds. Bryan was their club champion last year. S. Eche had 16.99 pounds for second, and in third was G. Whitaker with 16.45 pounds. Jones also ahd the big fish with a 7.07... There are no club tourneys that I know of this weekend.. But lots of fishermen in town.. January 21, 2008: We have some updated tourney info from over theweekend.. We were unable to attend some of the weigh-ins on Sunday. First of all here is Martha Sutherland with her fish from Saturday.
The Atascosa Bass Club top finishers all had limits both days, but were a little dissapointed with their overall results. Fishing was tough on most anglers. But with fluctuating water levels and cold water, that can happen. Finishing on top of the heap was Shane Pfullman, with a respectable two day total of 34.28 pounds. His big bass was a 5.40. In second was Julius Vrana with 33.74, and rounding out the top three was Terry Vrana, with 32.15 pounds. Pat Whites 6.38 fish held up for big bass. SAPD Bass Busters finished as follows. Robert Amos held on to finish on top with a two day total of 39.76 pounds. That's a decent job considering the conditions. Congrats Robert! In second was Richie Evans and he carried 26.31 pounds of fish to the scale. And in third was Richard Drzymala with 24.39 pounds. In the womens race Mel Villarreal held on to take top honors with 22.01 pounds. Her 10.03 pound beauty held up for big bass of the tournament. Tommy Joyner also caught a whopper at 9.97 pounds. Special thanks to Johnny Barnes for the final day results. Here is a couple of pics from Saturdays big bass..
We are still chasing other tourney results and will post ASAP! January 19, 2008: There were a lot of anglers that got a late start this morning.. And it's not because their alarms didn't go off. Air temps were at about 38 degrees at sun up, and there were plenty of wet boats as we received about a quarter inch of rain last night. It did not make for the best looking day to fish, but the sun popped out mid morning and really helped make things at least bearable. Results varied from poor to pretty good, as far as Falcon standards go. We made it to three out of five weigh ins and here's what happened.. If we did not make it to your clubs weigh in we apologize.. Please e-mail us your results and pics an we'll get em posted.. SAPD had twenty nine fishermen and women make the trip to Falcon, and the when the weig-hin was done, Robert Amos had the heavy stringer with 21.90 pounds. Johnny Barnes had 15.09 for second place, and Robert Evans rounded out the top thiree with 14.65. Ms. Mel Villarreal had the heavy bass of the day with a 10.03 pound whopper. Unfortunately we were not there before it was released.. But I am promised a picture of it.. Tommy Joiner had the second big bass with a fish weighing 9.97 pounds. If it were me I'd of snuck a few drops of water in the bag.. Most of the fish were caught on soft plastics, including the big bass of the day..
Freedom Bass Club brought seventeen anglers to Falcon to contest their first tournament of the year, and their results were typical of the day. There were several limits and there were several zeros..When the dust cleared Janet Zipperer had the heavy stringer and the big bass of the day. Her best five weighed 18.03, and she had a 7.01 for big fish honors.
Scott Hutzler is always near the top of the field and he brought 17.14 to the scales for second place. In third was Ira Lynn with 17.05. Janet was willing to tell me that she caught her big fish on a Yamamoto Spider Grub.. Looked like Watermelon Pepper to me.. In the Three inch size or so.. And the last weigh-in we were able to attend was the Atascosa Bass Club, who weighed in at 4:00 at Beacon. They had twelve fishermen in the race, and Shane Pfullman brought in 19.02 pounds for first place after day one. He also had a 5.40 for his biggest fish. In second was Terry Vranna with 18.27, and he also had a good fish in his sack at 5.64. Julius Vranna barely made it into third with 16.22, barely out ouncing Keith Sutherland who brought in 16.16. But the two big bass of the day belonged to the ladies, as Pat White brought in a 6.38 beauty, and Martha Sutherland was just behind her with a 6.16. I apologize to Martha for not having her pic here.. Some how I have corrupted the file.. But I' working on it.. We'll have day two results tomorrow!
January 14, 2008: Well the hullabaloo in Zapata is winding down with the mass exodus of the Stren Series anglers and their entourage. If you have not heard or did not watch or attend the weigh-ins then here is a news flash for you. These guys caught a lot of fish. And some quality fish at that. I believe there were over ten fish that weighed over ten pounds brought to the scales. There were also two over twelve, with the larger just missing the thirteen pound mark. And I can tell you that after attending the weigh-ins the fishermen were impressed with the lake. I will leave this link below for a while till the Stren folks take the page down. We have a lot of clubs coming to town this weekend. We look forward to the spring visits from all of you and we hope you stop by the store and see us. January 7, 2008: The South Texas Five and the Alice Bass Club both held their respective tournaments on Sunday, and some participants fished both events. The South Texas Five opener for the year drew only fifteen teams, which came as a surprise to the organizers, as well as me. I thought a lot of folks would want to test the water in the new year. Finishing in first place with a stringer weighing 25.15 pounds was the team of Parks and Glenny. Alan also had the big bass of the tourney with a nice 8.06 fish. Top left is Russell Getschmann with 6.90. Martinez and Martinez finished in second, with a very respectible 22.97. Rounding out the top three was the team of Getschmann and Barker, and and they had second big bass with a fish weighing in at 6.90 pounds.
There were three more stringers of twenty pounds or more, and all the anglers participating reported catching fish. Spinner baits were reportedly catching a lot of fish, especially on the lower end of the lake. Soft plastics were also catching fish. From what most of the fishermen said, bites were very light, and fishing slow was the key to getting bites. But once you got a fish on, all subtleness was out the window.. Emily Ball was the ladies champ.. The Alice Bass Club had a Team tournament
and it was won by Mingo Dominguez and his partner, with a stringer of 20.91 pounds.
Mingo had a 6.48 to go with their nice bag of fish. Fernand Amador had a 6.51 pound fish for Big Bass of the event, and he and his partner had a second place sack of 18.92 pounds.
Sandy Vela and Max Gonzales finished third with 17.66 pounds. Sandy said fishing slow was the key to catching all their fish. I agree... I want to apologize for any name/picture association mistakes in advance.. I lost my "who was wearing which shirt" cheat sheet. January 3, 2008: Registration for The South Texas Five tournament on Sunday will be held here at Falcon Lake Tackle, on Saturday, January 5th, starting at 4:00 PM. Tournament hours and weigh-in times will be discussed at registration. For more info or to make special arrangements for registration, call Bill Stipp at 361-384-0257. This will be our first tournament of the new year here at Falcon, and the first in a while. It should give us a good barometer on what is happening here on Falcon, and maybe a preview of what's to come next week for the Stren Tournament.. December 21, 2007: There have been no tournaments in the last few weeks, and we do not know of any scheduled before the South Texas Five, the first weekend of January. Of course the FLW is starting the middle of the next week, on the 9th. Lots of Pre-Fishing going on. We hope to see you and your club this spring.. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! December 3, 2007 The Quality Bass Club finished up their two day tournament with a 1:00 weigh in at the county ramp. And although they did not slay em, they did have better results than on day one. Brian Scarberry came from the shadows to take top honors with a day two weight of 8.12 pounds, and the big bass of the tournament of 4.36 pounds. Mike Robbins finished second with a total weight of 7.05 pounds, and day one leader Cathy Leach slid to third with 6.01 pounds. These anglers were treated to some tough conditions on Saturday and on Sunday most folks did not venture too far from the county ramp in Zapata. It was good to meet many of you and we appreciate you stopping in the store. Hopefully your next trip to Falcon will treat you a little better. December 1, 2007: The Quality Bass Club is in town this weekend, and we saw several of of their members thru the store yesterday. And we saw all of them at the weigh in today at 3:00 at the County Ramp. It was tough sledding for all the fishermen as high winds that gusted to 33 miles per hour made the fishing tough. There were no limits weighed in and most folks had one to three fish. In first place after day one is Cathy Leach, with two fish weighing in at 3.86 pounds. Big Bass of the day was a 3.08 caught by Stephan Brooks. Mike Kitchen is in third with 2.62. The club brought about 10-12 fishermen to town. These results were typical of the reports that we heard in the store today. And folks who caught 30-40 fish yesterday said thay had a very hard time of it today. And most people that were not fishing a tournament gave in early to the gale winds. As did we..
November 20, 2007: The Alice bass club was also in town last weekend to fish a one day tourney on Sunday the 18th. Now I understand why there were so many trailers at the County Ramp. Fifty One contestants showed up to fish the event. And according to Sandy Vela, who was nice enought to forward this report, only about 40% of the anglers weighed fish. It was a three fish format, and Ricky Garcia took top honors with a 14.48 pound stringer, that included a 9.38 pound big bass. In second was Justin Snelling with 13.31 pounds. Brandon Wheatly Rounded out the top thre with a 12.66 stringer. The top five places all had over a four pound average per fish. The story goes that the top three finishers all caught many of their fish on spinnerbaits in seven to nine feet of water. So it sounds like the spinner bait bite is really starting to get going as this confirms what the folks from Atascosa Bass Club had reported. The good news is that there are still alot of fish out there that have not seen a spinner bait yet. And we have a lot of em'. November 19, 2007: Atascosa Bass club results are in and as usual this club was able to catch some impressive stringers of fish. We saw a few of their members thru the store and we really appreciate you folks coming by. After day one Craig White was leading the pack with 21.02 pounds. In second was Ted Wayland with a 18.09, and in third was Terry Vrana with 17.33. Terry had a 7.38 big bass, but I believe it was caught on Sunday. On Sunday Jim Marsh jumped from fifth to the top of the heap with a very impressive stringer that weighed in at 27.73 pounds, anchored by a 8.03 pound whopper. He also had a 6.14 and a 5.51 during the tourney. The winning weight was 43.68 pounds, and that's over a 4.3 pound average..Do that somewhere else.. Nice Job Jim! Finishing in Second was day one leader Craig White with second day bag of 20.92, and a total weight of 41.9 pounds. And in third was Pat White with a two day weight of 37.79 pounds. She had 16.87 on Saturday, and 20.92 on Sunday. The top three stringers were caught primarily on Jo-Baby spiner baits, purchased at Falcon Lake Tackle. Thanks! Fish were said to be caught off the bean bushes and brush in 9-11 feet of water. We do have a new supply of Jo-Baby's in stock if you need or want some. Thanks Craig White for the Report! Austin Bass Club continued their assault on the fish on Sunday, and when the two-stroke smoke cleared Keith Nichols followed up his day one stringer with 20.92, good enough to hang on to the top spot and a two day total weight of 47.93 pounds. Do that somewhere else. In second place after day two was Bobby Landes, with a two day weight of 41.04 pounds. His second day weight was 17.85. Rounding out the top three was Aaron Glynn, who had the big bag on Sunday, at 23.38 pounds, bringing his two day total to 37.64. He just barely out ounced Jake Jakubowsky who finished fourth with 37.14. Team winners were: 1st Nichols/Glynn 85.57 pounds. 2nd Jakubowsky/Koraska 71.54pounds. 3rd Parish/Landes 64.89 pounds. Yeah.. These guys caught some fish.. The third place team averaged 3.24 pounds a fish. Not to bad for a little pond like Falcon. (First place averaged 4.27) It was good to meet all you guys and we'll see you next time!
November 17, 2007: There are two bass clubs in town this weekend; Atascosa and Austin Bass Clubs. Their weigh in times were too close together to attend both, and were at different locations.. So I flipped a coin. I hear that Atascosa was being led after day one by Craig White.. And that the big bass was a five something.. There.. Now that's a heck of a report for you.. I am promised detailed results in a day or so.. They are also fishing tomorrow.. So I guess you figgured by now that I went to Austin Bass clubs weigh in at Oso Blanco. It took me a few minutes to figgure out the format of their tournament, and my ignorance may lead to some inaccuracies.. But I hope not. Austin Bass Club fishes a team format, but also keeps individual stringer weights. There. Now that's not so hard is it.. With individual heavy stringer was Keith Nichols, with 26.99 pounds. He had the big bass of the day with a 8.53 pound Fattie. If I have not screwed it up that means that he and his partner Aaron Glynn have a total weight of 41.25 pounds. Aaron had a five fish sack that weighed 14.26.
Here is Brian with a 6.18
In second place for individual heavy stringer is Bobby Landis with a 23.79 pound bag. He had a 5.84 big bass. Brian Koraska had the third heavy stringer with 16.90, and had a heavy fish of 6.18 pounds. Just on his heels was John Gibbons with a 16.33 pound sack.
November 10th and 11th 2007: McAllen Bass Anglers were in town to fish a two day event that headquartered out of the State Park. Some wonderful air tenperatures were on hand for the fishermen, but the blow was on and it made fishing any unprotected water a bit of an adventure. Twenty anglers made the trip and after day one Eddie Kucia was jusy barely in the lead with a nice sack of 18.66 pounds. Just behind was Martin Contreras with 18.43, and in third was Joe Martinez with 17.30. I hear that Martin Contreras had the big fish somewhere between seven and eight pounds, but I have no exact weight or picture.. If someone has one, please forward it to me.. On day two Lee Kelly had the heavy stringer with 15.05 pounds, but on Saturday he had only brought three fish to the scales. His total weight was 22.96 pounds, good enough for a fifth place finish overall. First day leader Kucia was able to bring in a limit that weighed 14.29 pounds on Sunday, and that was enought to keep him on top. His two day total was 32.95 pounds. Joe Martinez held on to second with a total of 30.92 pounds after fetching a decent stringer the second day also, with 13.62 pounds. Brantley Billman finished in third with a two day total of 27.42 pounds. The top four finishers all had limits both days. The club caught a total of 135 bass that weighed 337.88 pounds for an average of 2.5 pounds per fish. This info was gleaned from McAllen Bass Anglers site, and an e-mail from a member. Thanks for contributing. P.S. Your site looks good! November 6 2007 The results from Seguin Bass Club were forwarded to me from Dennis Weaver.. Thanks! "I won the 2 day total with 36.88 and 7.78 big bass. Randy Smith came in 2nd with 30.68. and Billy Cheatham came in 3rd with 20.89. We did not actually weigh the best 5 fish in my boat with Ranndy Smith fishing with me, but a close estimate would be 33 lbs. Sat. and 28 lbs. Sunday. That would be 10 fish for 61 lbs....not too shabby! Most of our fish were on soft plastics around brushy drop offs."
I would say that is not too shabby at all! Dennis did say that they did throw a lot of 10" worms in dark colors, and their best fishing was on some steep drops with brush on them. I agree.. If you are not tied to the house or deer lease this is an awesome time to fish Falcon! November 3 2007: Seguin Bass club is in town this weekend and we understand that they are fishing out of the State Park area. Some of their folks were thru the store and and we should have some results tomorrow or Monday.. I guess not all of the folks from Seguin are hunting the sand hills this weekend. I hear there are some good bucks running the river bottoms south of town this year.. We'll see.. October 27 2007: The Atascosa Bass club was in town over the weekend and we have Saturdays results. Shane Pfullman was in the lead after day one with a five fish stringer of 26.92 pounds. He had a 7.88 big bass to help with that bag of fish. In second place was Pat White with 21.26, and she had a 6.14 to go with some other quality fish. In third was Tinker Pfullman and he brought 15.52 to the scales. Those Pfullman boys are always in the hunt. There were only ten anglers competing from the info I have. There was also an 7.11 and a 6.95 caught. Dub Billings had second big bass on Saturday with the 7.11.. We will post the Sunday results when we get them.. On Sunday Shane Pfullman was able to hold off the pack and ended up with a two day weight of 37.88 pounds to take first place. Here's a pic of Shane with a couple of nice fish. I'd a been showing a few teeth if I was holding em!
Finishing in Second Place was Pat White, with a two day total of 30.4 pounds. She only had four fish on Sunday but it was enough to hang on to the number two spot. In third was Terry Vrana with a two day total of 27.85. He had a day two bag of 15.15 to jump him into the top three. Congrats to the winners! Atascosa will be back this month we hear for another round. October 22 2007: Opec Tournament results are as follows! First palce was Haralson and Bauer with 34.2 pounds.A second place weight of 32.33 pounds was recorded by Hinojosa and Belosantos Jr. Coming in third was Lackey and Lackey with 31.16 pounds. I do not have prize ammounts and first names but I will get them posted ASAP. If anyone out there has any pictures please e-mail them to me! Thanks!
October 22 2007: The final results are in from the Bass Champs North and East divisions championship here at Lake Falcon. And some movement in the top ten definately occurred from day one. Taking top honors and the grand prize of $30,000 was the team of Vincent Neal and Kyle Rowe. They came in with a very impressive (two day) ten fish limit of 57.08 pounds. They were in third when the day started. Willie Bensley and and Michael Hulsey finished second with a total weight of 50.94 pounds, and were rewarded with a check for $15,000. Rounding out the top three was the team of JD Laughery and Tommy Climer Jr. They received $10,000 for their efforts.. Saturdays leaders, Shonn Blassingame and Shane Elmore slipped to slipped to finish in 10th place. Jeff Scrifes' 10.66 bass from Saturday held up for big bass of the contest and he received $2000 pus a $2000 bonus. There were a lot of stories of big fish lost and lots of fish caught . The methods used ran the gamut of fishing styles and presentations, and I did not hear a negative word on the fishery. As usual the Bass Champs folks were well organized and ran a smooth weigh in, keeping fish out of the water for a minimal ammount of time, hopefully leading to a minimum of dead fish. We had hundreds of folks thru our doors and we want to again thank all of you for stopping in. Without your support we could not be here. Thanks again!
Top To Bottom: 1. Neal and Rowe 2. Bensley and Hulsey 3. Laughery and Climer
October 21 2007 The Bass Champs north and east divisions invaded Zapata this weekend, and the results from day one are in. It took us a while to get them posted as we have been crazy busy down here at the store . In first place after the first day of competition is the team of Blassingame and Elmore with a total five fish weight of 27.22 pounds. That's not too shabby, even for Falcon standards. In an almost dead heat with them in second place is the team of Turner and Winans, with a 27 pound bag. The team of Neal and Rowe is third with 26.04 pounds. All these weights are unofficial, but should hold up. The big bass of the day was caught by Jeff Scrifes, and it weighed in at 10.66.
There are still a lot of dogs in the hunt as there were a lot of teams with weights in the twentys. And anything can happen on day two, especially here on Falcon. Not a whole lot of info was given up on the podium, but we heard reports of fish being caught on everything from flukes to shakey head jigs. But flipping the bushes still seems to be the most productive method of catching quality limits. There were 10 fish caught over eight pounds yesterday, and two over ten. And of course there were the stories of big fish that escaped. We sold a lot of braid on Saturday evening.
The OPEC Tourney is also this weekend and we hear that a 21pound stringer is leading after day one. That's three fish folks..Pretty salty. There are 63 teams entered we hear we will have more info soon on who and what. Stay tuned!
October 15, 2007: There were at least six bass clubs in town over the weekend, and we have some partial results from a couple of them. I attended the Uvalde Bass Club weigh in on Saturday afternoon at the county ramp. The fish brought to the scales were less than sensational, and there were only three or four limits weighed. Josh Hiler had the big bass at 6.54 pounds, and heavy stringer with 16.56. Jimbo Beard was in second place with 14.82 pounds. Both had a five fish limit. Johnny Caballero had a fish that weighed 5.13 for second Big Bass. Bill Surber(sp) was came in Third with 12.10 pounds. Uvalde fished two separate one day tourneys and I do not yet have the results from Sunday. (Cowboys) I have some nice pics of their fish.. Unfortunately my camera is in Zapata and today I am in San Antonio. I'll post them this weekend. The Georgetown Bass Club was also in town and weighed in at the county ramp as well. They win the Ironman trophy hands down as they fished till 5:00. David Lindell was in first place after Saturdays fishing with 21.14, anchored by a 7 pound big bass. Big bass of the day was caught by Gerry Witt, and it was right at 9 pounds. I do not have final results from their two days of fishing. The South Texas Bass Anglers Association was also in town and there were a few good stringers weighed in both days. Ralph Celedon Brought in 21.12 on Saturday anchored by a 7.3, a 6.12, and some more solid fish. Dan Lejman had the big fish of the day at 8.00 and a bag of 15.90. Sunday was windy and the fish were biting early. Ralph Celedon again brought in a nice stringer of 19.6 and had the top two day stringer at 40.72. Fred Vannoy had the big fish on Sunday with a 6.70, and that helped him finish in Second place with a two day total of 28.05. Fish were caught on topwaters in the shallows, but better bass came from deeper water. Spinner baits and brush hogs were also working for these anglers. (report courtesy of Ralph Celedon)
The McAllen Bass Anglers were also in town this weekend. This report is courtesy of Al Malone. Eighteen club members fished this individual, 2-day tournament out of the State Park. There was a three fish daily limit to help prevent fish mortality, as the water temperature was still around 84 degrees. Limiting the number of fish in the livewells proved successful, as all but one fish was released in good condition, and it went for somebody's dinner. The lake level had stabilized at 289+ feet. Although Saturday winds were moderate, Sunday proved to be more difficult with strong Southerly winds creating 4-5' waves. Congratulations go to Brantley Billman for his 1st place, 2 day (6 fish) stringer weighing 20.24 lbs, and to John Struthers, for his 2nd place heavy stringer weighing 16.86 lbs. Brantley said that the bite was really subtle, that if you felt that your plastic bait was hitting a tree limb, it was probably a fish, so he set the hook! He was fishing in the treetops, at around 10-15', he said. So there you go, OPEC and Basschamps guys/gals, good luck! I must apologize for the incomplete results, but there was just too much ground to cover last weekend. There were a lot of folks in town and a lot of folks thru the store. And we really enjoyed meeting many of you. Bass Champs is bringing a lot of anglers to town this weekend we hear, and the O.P.E.C. tourney is also being held out of the State Park. I believe they will be weighing in at different ends of the lake. This weekend should be a good barometer of what is happening on the lake, and we'll let you know what happens.. Water still 84 degrees. Please take precautions with your fish in the livewells.
October 8 2007: The San Antonio Metropolitan League of Bass Clubs held their 33rd annual competition between member clubs, and the results are in. Rebel Bass Club came out on top with a total weight of 234.82 pounds. Universal City Bass Club was second with 223.17 pounds, and San Antonio Bass Club rounded out the top three with 166.65. These total weights were arrived at by taking the best two day stringers of the top eight anglers from each club. That is about a three pound average for the fish from the first place team. Not all two day stringers consisted of ten fish. Ron Carter won the Tournament of Champions with a two day weight of 41.10 pounds, just barely out ouncing fellow club member Matt Rigby who came in second with 40.91. Both of these anglers fish with Rebel Bass Club. Scott Hutzler from Freedom Bass Club came in third with 35.15 pounds. Big bass of the tourney was caught on Saturday by Matt Rigby and it weighed in at 9.73 pounds. On Sunday the big fish was 8.53 pounds caught by David Glenny of Universal City Bass Club. Hopefully someone will e-mail me some pictures of these fish. We'd love to make you famous here at Falcon Lake Tackle..
The Ladies TOC was won by Ngarm Ball with a two day total of 25.84. Pat Martin was second with 23.72, and third place finisher was Lilian Guiterrez with 19.01. The Junior Division was won by Jason Kalinowski with a 16.8 pound two day total. If you would like a complete list of anglers and weights e-mail me and I'll send it along.. Congratulations to all the winners and we'll see you next time!
September 22-23 2007 Universal City Bass Club was in town to hold their September club tourney, and maybe try to locate some fish for the upcoming Metro Tourney. These guys always seem to be in the thick of things when it comes to Metro. Tom Mix was leading the pack after Saturdays fishing, with four fish for 23 pounds, with a 8.54 kicker. Justin Bauer was in second we hear, and he had a 8.29 pound fish. We do not have a lot of detail about Sundays results, but we did hear that Justin Bauer ended up on top with a two day weight of 39.86 pounds. Send us those big fish pics! If not I'll be forced to put up pictures of me holding fish... And nobody wants to see that! We also heard that Freedom Bass Club had a 7.5 pound fish.. Rebel Bass Club caught some fish.. That's not a lot of info.. These guys must have a tournament coming up or something.. And I imagine that we will be a little short on Info for the next couple of weeks.. They must have all stepped on rusty nails.. Lots of cases of Lockjaw around.. September 17 2007: There were at least four bass clubs in town over the weekend, and there was a mixed bag of results. While most folks located and caught fish, there were a few that did not fare so well. And then there were a few "Bite of a Lifetime" fish mixed in.. Three fish over ten pounds were caught this weekend, but my info on who caught them is not too clear,, I do have a pic of two of them, but only one identified fisherman. Please e-mail me with any corrections and names you might have. Cen-Tex Bass Club: These folks had a small contingent of fishermen make it to Falcon, but one of their group caught a really nice bass that stretched the spring to 12.88 lbs. That's a whopper in anybody's book. Darrel Wuensch and partner Marty Long were in the lead after day one with about 26 pounds. I am not too sure of their tourney format. Please e-mail me w/ more details if you know..Victor Gomez and Ken Miller were in second with 16 lbs.. Pete Trevino Caught the big fish.. We hear his partner Rose Marie Trevino did an excellent netting job.. See Pic Below.
San Antonio Bass Club was also at Falcon, and I do not have a lot of details about their results. But Results I do have and they are as follows: At the top of the class was Tracey Tolbert with 52.9 lbs. (These are all two day weights) He had an 8.7 and a 8.1. No details on how.. Richard Drake was second with 39.1 pounds and Steve Coors was third with nine fish for 27.2 pounds... In the Ladies Division it was Lillian Gutierrez with10.4 lbs with four fish. And in the Pee-Wee division it was Dylon Orne with four fish also for 11 pounds.
Please Identify these fishermen for me and verify weights!!(Of the fish..)
South Texas Bass Anglers Association Was also at Falcon.. Here is a report from Ralph Celedon: The South Texas Bass Angler's Association had their September club tournament at Falcon this weekend. The two day event was slow. On staurday Dan Lejman lead with 10.88 and Fred Vannoy with 10.69. Think that the Frdiay night strom slowed the fishing down totally. There was no big fish just a couple of 3's. We saw the water level go up some buy sunday. Fishing resumed on sunday. Again, Dan brought in a 16.14 (all soild 3 pounders) stringer with Freddy still coming in second. The fish were on plastic lizards and senkos. NO particular color.
Gracias! Ralph Celedon
Our Buddy Al Malone with McAllen Bass Anlglers sent us this report from his clubs weekend: Here's a quick report on our September 15-16 tournament: Twenty anglers competed in our September team tournament, with a 5 fish limit/boat/day. On Saturday, 5 teams brought in their 5 fish limit, and Sunday, 6 teams brought in their limit. Apparently you either found them or didn't. The team of Jessie Warren and Jess Valadez were the winners with 31.71 pounds for the two days (10 fish total). Second place team was Lalo Alvarado and Tony Garcia with 30.25 pounds. Most of the fish our team found were in the stickups in 11-13' of water. Most bass were caught on plastic creature baits. Like always, watermelon/red flake was one of the best colors. Attached is a photo of new member Terry Scotts' 7.3 lb big bass. You gotta watch those new guys Al.. Hope you didn't loose any Money to him already..
September 13, 2007 - SWRI had 13 teams here this last weekend and reported good catches in 6' to 16' of water. The water temp was close to 90 degrees and they had success on Rat-L-Traps, plastics, crank baits and spinner baits. Doug Black had big bass of 6.72# and came in 5th with 26.32#. Rick Pompa came in 1st with a catch of 36.58# for 10 fish. Bill Herrera was 2nd with 33.88#, Jerry Campos 3rd with 32.48# and Jeff Kolinoski was 4th with 26.44#. SAPD was also here over the weekend, but have not received a report. Heard someone in their club had two eight pounders.
August 28 2007: The Atascosa Bass club held a Two Lake Roadrunner for their August tourney, with the choices being Choke or Falcon. Because of proximity, most of the fishermen ended up at Choke. Here is a report provided courtesy of Craig White. Most of our club members that did turn out went to Choke since it was a Choke-Falcon roadrunner and Choke is so much closer for them. One stringer from choke trumped the Falcon stringers, it was Terry Vrana and he flipped deep grass and had a two day total of 34.51. For the Falcon stringers I had heavy stringer with 32.82, Shane Pfullman 29.90, Ted Wayland 29.63 and Tinker Pfullman 26.85. All weights also being two day totals. The big fish were just not to be had this weekend it seemed at least not for our guys. There was several 4lbers and only one 6lber. I did manage to have a 9+ on and in the top of a bush that I could not get in the boat before loosing her, she was in 8 feet of water. As far as numbers of fish they were not the usual Falcon summer time numbers but we all seemed to find and cull fish throughout the day. The fish I was on seemed to all be on points, main and secondary. I did not find any fish on rocks, beaver dens, brush piles or in the back of creeks. Just not a good tournament for Falcon, weight wise or fisherman turn out. Thanks Craig I hear thru the Grapevine (Metro Meeting Report) that the San Antonio Bass Club will be at Falcon on Sept. 15th and 16th, and that Universal City Bass Club, and Rebel Bass Club will be down on the 22nd and 23rd of September. And of course the TABC state tourney will be held on the weekend of September 29th and 30th. Also just found out that McAllen Bass Anglers will be here on the weekend of the 15th and 16th also. So September is shaping up to be a busy month around here. And then things really get crazy in October. And I'm not talking about Wurstfest.. See our tournament schedule page for upcoming events. We hope to see you when you come to town. Stop by the store and say Howdy! August 11-2007 The Alice Bass Club also fished on Sunday, and they went to a well conceived three fish limit for this hot weather tourney. The heavy stringer weighed in by Noe was 18.15 pounds. Sandy Vela weighed in the Second heavy stringer with 17.86 pounds. In third place was Victor Perez with 17.11. We commend all clubs for transporting fewer fish at this time of year. August 10-11-2007 McAllen Bass Club Twenty two members fished a Team Tourmment format Saturday and Sunday, and weighed in at the state park. On saturday, with the rising lake levels, fish were widely scattered, but most teams managed their five fish limits, despite the 103 degree heat. Sunday was thankfully cooler after the overnight showers, but it seemed harder to locate biting fish. Nevertheless the team of Brantley Billman and Eddie Kucia managed good stringers both days for a total of 46.77 pounds, including the big fish of 9.34 pounds. Second place honors went to John Struthers and Andy Silva with 34.02 pounds. Rounding out the top three was the team of Joe Martinez and David Trevino, Their stringer weighed in at 25.87 pounds. These weights are all two day, ten fish totals. Billman and Kucia reportedly caught their fish on Watermelon Red Brushogs off hardwoods, next to deep water..
July
13,2007: Charlie Thompson
and Bill Engle were in the store today acquainting us with the procedures The winner of the tournament with 49.6 Lbs was Tracy Tolbert fishing with his son, Payden. Their fish came from 7 -10 Ft of water which was 86 Degrees. Their Big Bass won the big Bass pot and it weighed 9.7 Lbs. Payden had a 7 Lb big bass. The fish were caught on a combination of watermelon red brush hogs and magnum lizards. The big bass took a Berkley Watermelon Pearl Power Hawg. Richard Drake took second heavy stringer with 47 Lbs and Wayne Bell took third with 34.5 Lbs. Lillian Gutierrez took Ladies Heavy Stringer honors with 14.3 Lbs. The good news is that all fish caught were released alive. Congratulations to the San Antonio Bass Club for taking the lead and holding a paper tournament and for teaching all the young folks a good lesson in conservation. July 14-15, 2007:There were eight teams with a 5 fish limit per boat that fished the McAllen Bass Anglers tournament out of the State Park. All but a couple of the fish were released in good condition. Lalo Alvarado and Tony Garcia won with a 2 day total of 35 lbs (23.83 lbs on Sunday alone, including two 8 pounders). Martin Contreras and Juan Rivera got 2nd with 30.33 lbs. Al Malone and Dezi Lopez ended up in 3rd place with 30.04 lbs , including Dezi's Big Bass weighing 9.63 lbs . We missed several bass because the bite was really subtle. The lowest 2 day weight with 8 teams was 22 1/2 lbs Most of the fish were caught on creature baits and other plastics, in the usual colors, an some on crankbaits. With the rising water the fish were pretty scattered and at various depths. You either found them or didn't. Some liked the newly flooded weeds, but most were still deep. Sorry, no photos, the 103* heat cooked my camera batteries. We are still accepted new members. If anyone is interested, please see our website under "Links" Thanks to Al Malone for the report. July 1, 2007: Capital Bass Club:The club held their tournament this weekend and enjoyed some good results. Gary Flint had the heavy stringer of 53 8 Oz. Dean Waldon was a very close second with 53 Lbs. The fish were caught on a combination of deep plastics and crankbaits. Third and forth place weighed 47 and 44 lbs respectively and Jack and Michael Waldrop were fifth with 43 lbs. Thanks to Jack Waldrop for the results because we were unable to attend the weigh in held at the State Park. The hall of fame fishing tournament was held at Oso Blanca lodge this weekend. The Hall of Fame Legends tournament as held this weekend and our neighbor James Bendele provided this report: Fished the Zapata Chamber of Commerce "Legends" tournament over the last weekend. It was a well run Tournament and the organizers took special care of the fish, and even went as far as having a Private Fisheries Biologist on hand to pamper any fish that were stressed or not feeling too well. There were also many other festivities going on during the weekend, but fishing till 4:00 both days kinda takes the urge to join a Conga line after dark out of you. But this is supposed to be a fishing report and not a social happenings review. There were 52 teams entered, from what I understand, and I believe that was in the same range as the inaugural event last year. The weather was fantastic for the first week in July.. With Highs in the low to mid 90's. The tournament had a three fish per day format and it took over 40 pounds to win.. I am not sure what the exact weight was as it did not belong to me.. (Not uncommon) That's almost a 7 pound average.. Pretty salty.. The winners did have a 11 pound fish on day one I believe, and there was a fish almost eleven on Sunday also. My partner and I started where we caught a lot of big fish last weekend, in School Bus creek. There were a LOT of boats in there, and a lot of our water was previously viewed before we go to it. I'm not sure if it made any difference or not, as fishing was pretty slow for us most of the morning.. By noon we had a lot of keepers, but none that were going to win you any money. We probably had about 10 pounds for three fish. I was starting to think about how it would be good to get home early on Sunday.. Then at 2:00 my partner caught a 8.25 beauty.. Which kicked us into a heavy grind to try and help that fish. But we were unable to improve as we fished right up to the wire and ended up weighing in just over 15 pounds of fish.. Not terrible but not what we had expected. And that put us in 15th place.. Not in the $$… And not unusual.. On Sunday morning we started out in the same area, and there was only one other boat in sight. And after a couple of hours we only had a two three pounders in the well, and were not feeling too cocky. But at about 10:30 I flipped in the right bush and was rewarded with a good fish. Didn't weigh her but figured her at about 7.5…. We were feeling a little better but fished about two more hours with only a one pound cull. I decided to do what usually screws me up, and make a huge deviation from the game plan. I knew there were good fish where we were fishing, but we could not get them to bite. So we decided to try an area where I had caught a lot of fish last fall, but hadn't fished in a long while. On my second pitch into a big bushy tree, I hooked a nice fish. And after a miracle net job in the middle of the bush with the line wrapped around everything, the hook fell out of the fishes mouth. Didn't weigh her either but figured her at a big six. Two flips later I caught a four in the next bush over.. Things were looking better. We continued catching fish, and about twenty minutes later I caught a five pounder. I figured we had about 17-18 pounds for the tree fish. We worked back thru the area again and I'll be darn if I didn't hook a BIG fish in the bottom of another tree. She took a couple chunks of drag and wrapped me up and it was all said and done.. I thought about getting mad.. But I figured I'd already been blessed getting the last two in.. But this fish was a difference maker..(There's always the one that got away) We fished till quittin time again trying to cull the five, but it didn't happen. I was surprised at the scales though, when the biggest fish went 8.1, and the second was a big seven. We had a little over 20 pounds for the three. We ended up in fifth place overall, with just over 35 lbs for six fish.. Not a bad weekend of fishing. Even made expenses for a change.. By far the best bait for us was a Watermellon Red Brush Hog.. Lightly weighted, and fished in 5-7 feet of water. And this trip the fish were more in the bushes than on the hardwoods. We caught a lot of small fish on the Zoom Mag II in Plum. But one of the eights was caught on one also. Anyway we had a great time and if you get the chance to fish this event next year you should give it a try.. Falcon as a fishery is pretty much on fire and if you have the opportunity to get there you should take it. You will not be disappointed. There are a lot of big events coming to Falcon, and deservedly so.. It should be fun to watch what happens. See you on the water! James Jimmy
Steed and Richard Cremo took heavy stringer honors with a little over 43 Lbs (43.01
Lbs for six fish). June
9-10, 2007: Sunday was a bit more productive then Saturday and Shane Pfullman walked away wih heavy stringer honors with 32.60 Lbs for two day 10 fish weight. Dub Billings came in third with 29.99 Lbs and Ted Wayland was second with 31.32 Lbs. May 26, 2007: South Texas Bass Anglers Association had their May tournament today and Ralph Celedone came in first with 27.9He also had the Big Bass weighing 9.80 Lbs and a couple of fish over 5.0 Lbs. Dale Ekins was second with 17.53 Lbs. Fred Vannoy came in third with 17.25 Lbs. "It did'nt seem to matter much what you threw because fish were hitting about everything." The better fish were deeper to about 10 ft. Thanks to Ralph Celedone for the report.
Sunday:The bite Sunday was not as good as Saturday and a nine pounder failed to take Howdy Rinehart's 10.93 Lber caught Saturday out of first place big bass. A number of fishermen and ladies were culling fish by early morning and the final results was a change in leaders for heavy stringer.Larry Martin was 1st with a two day 10 fish total of 47.36 Lbs. Sam McHardy was second with a very close 46.24 Lbs and Walter Vestal was third with 43.64 Lbs. Larry and Pat Marting took heavy couples honors with 88.51 Lbs and Howdy Rinehart and Stan McHardy took team Heavy Stringer with 70.93 Lbs.
South
Texas 5 Bass Tournament .
May
5, 2007: Freedom
Bass Club's SAPD
Bass Busters big bass weighed 9.25 Lbs and it was caught on a Zara Spook in
about 8ft of water by Tommy Joiner. The heavy stringer weighed 26 .53 Lbs and
was caught by Dean Amos on California Sweet Beavers. Shawn Markgraff was second
with 24.69 Lbs and Robert Drzmalya was third with 23.90 Lbs.Susan Osbourne had
ladies big bass weighing 6.51 Lb Ladies heavy stringer was Ann Drzmala with 17.53
Lbs SWRI's Bass Busters had two fish over 9 lbs including a 9Lb fish by Jerry Campos and a 10.22 Lb plus by Jason Kalonski and a 29 lb and 26 Lbs heavy Stringers respectively. Their best 5 fish weighed just over 41 Lbs Sunday: Jerry Campos and his partner Jeff Kolanski held on to 1st and 2nd Heavy Stringer honor with 51.76 Lbs and 51.74 lbs Between the two fishermen they had 103 lbs and their best five fish weighed 41.36 Lbs. They were throwing GDD22 crankbaits and Carolina rigged baby brush hogs. Helotes Bass Club heavy stringer winner for the two days was Bob Buchanan with 52.29 Lbs for10 fish. Danny Delhunt was second with 41.63 Lbs. Al Reyna was third with 35.27 lbs and Ngarm Ball was 4th with 34.59 Lbs. Richard and Ngarm Ball had the heavy stringer for a husband and wife with 65.65 lbs. Bob Buchanan had the Big Bass weighing 9.98 Lbs Seventeen members from the McAllen Bass Anglers fished Falcon this weekend. Conditions were 20 mph winds out of the SE and 78 degree lake water temperature. Saturday was cloudy most og the day with temperatures about 84 degrees for a high. Snday temperatures peaked at about 99 degrees. The lake level has dropped to 266.10 ft only the two middle lanes of the launch ramp at the State Park were working with 3 to 6 foot in the channel. Joe Martinez had the heavy stringer of 44.74 lbs. He also had the big Bass weighing 10.5 Lbs. Jessie Warren was second with 39.38 Lbs and John Struthers was third with 38.65 Lbs. Altogether the club caught weighed and released 143 bass weighing 427 Lbs April
14, 2007: San Antonio Bass
Club weighed in at the state park for their 31 member tournament today and Tracy
Tolbert had the heavy stringer weighing 16.05 Lbs. Woody Woodruff had the bg bass
weighing 7.10 Lbs. In 2nd Heavy Stringer Richard Drake weighed 15.30 Lbs and Robert
Pierce was third with 14.65 Lbs. Uvalde Bass Club had 26 fishermen at their tounament
with a 3 :30 pm weighin. Cris Kinsey weighed havy stringer of 21.67 Lbs and an
8.38 Big Bass.
Canyon
Bass Club had 22 anglers fight the 35 mph wind gusts and 22mph straight line winds
but their top heavyy stringer of
Sunday:
San Antonio Bass Club weighed
in day two of their Bass Tournament Sunday at 1:00 pm. Uvalde Bass Club held the weigh in for day two of their weekend tournament at 2:30 pm. High temperatures were 24 degrees and winds were gusting to 20 mph. Water temperature was 74 degrees. Most of the fish were caught in 8 to 10 ft of water. Jimbo Beard won day two Heavy Stringer with 23.05 lbs. and Mark Leinweber took 2nd Heavy Stringer with 21.97 Lbs.and Big Bass of 7.76 LB. Josh Hiler had the 3rd with 20.77 Lbs and Laura Langner had a 20.35 Lb Heavy Stringer and a 7.51 Lb anchor fish.Jimbo caught three of his fish on 10" red shad Power Worms and two on a Yum Big Dinger. Fish were caught on a variety of plastic baits and a few crankbaits
and spinnerbaits
March
25, 2007: 42 fishermen contested
the Southern Region Bass Federation Tournament at Falcon. The hands down winner
was Frank Adams
March 24, 2007: 207 teams of fishermen launched at day light to contest the annual Falcon Bass Champs tournament. Because of a predicted continuation of yesterday's 41mph wind gusts, fishermen were allowed to trailer their rigs to the ramps closest to their intended fishing destinatons. Fishing started at 7:00 am and last cast was at 3:00 pm Scales were open for weighin until 4:45 PM. Winds were gusting to about 29 mph and temperatures were mild with high temperature reaching 82.5 degrees with a cooling cloud cover most of the day. The open launching policy obviated the necessity of unpleasant boat trips fighting high winds to make the weighin at Beacon Lodge, Laredoans
Nicolas Rocha and his partner Abelardo Lozoya weighed in the Heavy Stringer of
31.72 Lbs Magnuum 8" Lizards, Berkley 10" Power Worms. brush hogs and watermelon red sweet beavers were the most productive lures.The depth range in which most of the fish were caught was 12 ft to 2 ft but 8 to 10 ft was the most frequent depth producing fish. A few fish were caught on spinnerbaits and crankbaits. Altogether eleven fish were caught over 6 Lbs, 10 fish were caught weighing over 7 Lbs. 8 fish were caught over 9 Lbs, 5 fish were caught overover 10 Lbs and 1 over 11 Lbs.57 Teams weighed over 20 Lbs and 27 places received checks. March
17, 2007: Atascosa Bass Club
fished Falcon Saturday and Craig White had the Big Bass weighing 10.48 Lbs and
SUNDAY: Craig White had the two-day heavy stringer totalling 46.62 Lbs. Shane Pfullman was second with 37.3 Lbs and Ted Wayland was third with 36.32 Lbs. Darrell Garza's big bass from Saturday caught at Choke Canyon weighing 11.01 Lbs was big bass for the weekend. Altogether their were147 fish weighing 453.78 Lbs caught by 22 fishermen. 15 fish weighed over 4 lbs 2 fish over 10 lbs and 7 over 6 Lbs. March
10-11, 2007: March 3-4, 2007: There are no tournaments at Falcon this weekend. Lots of fishermen and women from out of state and out of town. A group of Amarillo fishermen caught two nine pounders yesterday. Water temperature has dropped with the cold front and some high winds are forecast for today with high temperatures in the lower seventies. February
24-25, 2007: Six clubs are hosting club tournaments at Falcon this weekend.
Two clubs from Austin the River City Bass Club and Austin Bass Clubs, Two clubs
from San Antonio Texas the Helotes Bass Club and the San Antonio Bass Anglers,
South Texas Bass Anglers and Atascosa Bass Club and Humpie Howie are all hosting
tournaments at Falcon, Prefishing was good for most anglers but 9 1/2 lbs was
the big bass landed and it reportedly hit a jig, Fish were caught on brush Hog
and Magnum Lizards in Watermelon Red and Sweet Beavers in the same color. lots
of good fish were caught in 63 to 68 degree water. Atascosa Bass Club South
Texas Bass Anglers Cris Pike had the heavy stringer Saturday weighing 34.86
Lbs and the Big Bass weighing 7.62 Lbs. Jim Burgess was second with 20.37 Lbs
and Dan Lejman was third with 20.04 LbsRiver
City Bass Club Austin
Bass Club's 20 anglers weighed in at County Ramp. The first place Saturday
heavy stringer of 40.54 Lbs was weighed by Martin Jakubowsky and Brian Koraska
wth a 7.55 lb anchor fish. Second place team Mike and Nicholas weighed in 36.34
lbs with a 8.24 Lb Big Bass. Third place was 30.48 Lbs. Sunday:
Fish
were located in 2 to 12 ft of water on hardwoods and humps and brush hogs, magnum
lizards and Sweet Beavers caught the most fish. Five to eight foot of water was
the dominant depth in water warmed to 68 degrees by the afternoon. Air temperatures
reached 86 degrees and winds gusted to 23 mph on Sautuday. Sundays weather was
a little lighter for winds and temperatures reached 78 degreesThe bigger bass
were located in 5 to 10 ft of water and have not yet moved to the shallows in
preparation for spawning. Helotes
Bass Club's Brennie Farley caught and released her all time best and biggest
bass weighing 9.23 Lbs.
February
17-18, 2007: Uvalde and Ingram Bass Clubs contested their February Tournaments
on Ingram
Bass Club's Ronnie Gazaway weighed in the heavy stringer weighing 21.11 Lbs with
a 7.51Lb Big Bass Uvalde
Bass Clubs Jimbo Beard had the Club HS Saturday of 20.80 SUNDAY:Sam
Smith  
February
10-11, 2007: San Antonio Police Department Bass Busters and the Universal
City Bass Clubs hosted their Sunday:
Richard Flores Universal
City Bass Club: Alan Parks caught the Big Bass Saturday weighing 9 .61 Lbs
his 21.42 LBs heavy string was SUNDAY:
Saturday's big bass were dwarfed by the Sunday Big Bass
weighed in by Walter Vestal at 10.79 lbs Jeff Mergle had the second Big Bass weighing
9.29 Lbs. Jenny and Jeff weighed in a total of 66.80 Lbs to claim Heavy Stringer
Couples honors.Emile La Rose weighed the Heavy stringer of 45.58 lbs for the two
days and Jeff Mergle was a very close Second Heavy Stringer with 44.25 Lbs. Mark
Daymude Emile
and his partner Terry Frost took heavy boat honors with 69.75 Lbs.Altogether the
club caught 313 fish weighing 959.32 Lbs | |||
Shade
is Good!
Billmans 7lb Bass
they are following this weekend on the first of the San Antonio Bass Club's paper
tournaments scheduled for the summer. The recognition of the vulnerability of
fish carried in live wells for a day's fishing and the desire to assure live releases
of fish caught during the summer have resulted in the San Antonio Bass Club's
taking the lead among all area clubs in holding paper tournaments. In these tournaments
each of the fishermen and women will measure the length of their biggest five
fish and use a conversion chart patterened off the TPWD conversion chart to convert
length to weight. The fish will be released immediately after measrement. A copy
of the 
Derek
Cone and Andy Baker were second with 41.05 Lbs. They (Steed and Cremo)had a lot
of fish Saturday & Sunday and most were caught on Senkos.Jimmy Steed estimated
they caught over 75 fish. Richard Mim's team had a 11.08 LB big bass for Saturday.
Big Bass Sunday was 10.84 Lbs weighed by Omar Dominguez and Ramiro Reyes. Altogether,
258 fish weighing 1081.30 lbs were caught for an average of 4.2 Lbs per fish.
Thirty six fish over 4 lbs and 32 over 5 Lbs were weighed. The SureLife Catch
and release biologists were in charge of the live release and they needled about
70% of the fish that were caught deep. A total of 47 lmits were weighed Saturday
and 37 limits were weighed Sunday. A minimal number of the bass succumbed to the
stress and deaths were minimized due to the involvement of Lane and Tony Gergely.
Good Job Guys! The actual number of dead fish is not known as dead fish were not
allowed to be weighed in and post weigh in mortality is always a concern. Serious
thought should be given to rescheduling this tournament to a cooler month. Ed
Calderone President TABC assisted with the weigh in and live release. His help
and assistance was appreciated.
The
Atascosa Bass Club fished
Falcon this weekend. Lake water temperatures were about 85 degrees and 
temperatures
Saturday were hot at 99 degrees before a wind change occurred and showers cooled
the air temperatures. The bite was slow in the morning for most of the anglers
but after the wind change the bite improved. Allen Parks caught an 8lb 8 Oz bass
early on a sweet beaver but most of the other anglers settled for smaller bass
to fill their limits.Plastic baits and crankbaits were the best producers and
Carolina rigging was the best technique. Watermelon red and plum apple were the
best colors.
May
26, 2007: Universal City Bass Club had 25 members fish their May 26th Tournament.
When the weighin
was over it was Pat Martin putting it on the guys with 29.21 Lbs that included
5 fish over 4 Lbs and one 8.34 Lb big bass. Cris Bradfield was 2nd with 28.14
Lbs. Howdy Reinhart had fourth heavy stringer at 24.69 Lbs and his big bass weighed
10.93 Lbs. Larry Martin had the third heavy stringer weighing 25.96 Lbs with 4
patch fish over 4 lbs and he and Pat had heavy couples with 55.17 Lbs. Altogether
the club caught 201 fish. The water temperature was about 73-80 degrees and the
river was running raising the lake level over a foot since yesterday and spreading
debris from the Veleno including floating trees
and other debris to
Marker 8. Pat caught the majority of her fish on watermelon red brush hogs. Howdy
Reinhart caught the big bass on black and blue paddle tail worm in 10 ft of water
and the rest of his fish hit the Sweet Beaver. The majority of the big fish were
caught in 10 to 14 ft of water on ledges and submerged humps. Carolina rigged
baits were best with Big crankbaits running a close second.
had
21 teams and a good results. Joe Lancaster weighed in a 12.56 Lber
for Big Bass of the tournament and weekend. Charlie Haralson and his partner Milton
Menking narrowly out-ounced Jim Edward's 33.22 Lbs for first place Heavy Stringer
of 33.67 Lbs. Joe Lancaster had 28.62 lbs for third heay Stringer Penny Herzog
had ladies big bass weighing 6.22 Lbs and Ladies Heavy Stringer weighing 23.97
Lbs Crankbaits and Carolina Rigged plastics caught the most and the biggest fish
on ledges in 15 to 17 ft of water
For
the first weekend since April 14. 5 Bass Cubs held their May tournaments on Falcon.
Helotes, SWRI and McAllen all weighed in at the State Park. Freedom Bass Club
and SAPD Bass Busters
weighed in at the Zapata County Ramp. On previous occasions we have complained
to the Sheriff's office about the use of the launching ramp and adjacent parking
area at the Zapata County Ramp by 3 wheeler, 4 wheeler and motorcycle traffic.
They use the area as a playground impervious to the boat traffic. A SA tournament
boat exiting off the boat ramp struck a motorcycle entering the ramp and who was
not watching for outgoing traffic.Today several parked tow vehicles were also
broken into. Why the Sheriff's department cannot patrol this area and address
the problems especially on weekends is a mystery to us.This incident today is
an example of what this problem with non-boat vehicles running rampant can escalate
into. A few judicious tickets to the riders that run rampant over the boat parking
areas might prevent some of the accidents that are happening or waiting to happen.
Also patrol of the parking areas might make the perpetrators of the recurrent
breaking into the tow vehicles less brazen.
Butch
Drake had the heavy stringer weighing 29.1 lbs 
. Sunday:
The club's 24 anglers had a great day fishing and most anglers were culling fish
by early morning. Aubrey Freeman Sr. had the two day heavy stringer with 42.39
Lbs. Aubrey Freeman Jr had the second heavy stringer with a very close 42.34 Lbs.
Richard Flores was third with 37.82 Lbs and Susan Oborne had the heavy stringer
for ladies with 25.39 lbs. Richard Flores weiged a 7.49 lb bass for the Big BASS
Sunday
Jim
Surber was 2nd with 17.23 lbs and Jimbo Beard weighed 15 .21 lbs for third place
heavy stringer. Most of the fish came from 8-ao ft of water on plastic baits.Canyon
Bass Club's Donnie Collins caught a 13.02 Lb Big Bass during prefish that was
picked up during the early morning hours Saturday and delivered to the TPW aquarium
at San Marcos. The Jerrry Campos 14.28 Lber share lunker from December 2004 expired
and I understand that the last
two share lunkers from Choke Canyon and Amistad did not make it either. The fry
from the donated fish are no longer returned to the host lake and when they get
ready to release the fish they do not return the fish to the lake where it was
capactured. Its angler choice. That's why we have stopped recomending entry into
share a lunker. It is better to tske a picture and release the fish rather than
loosing it from the gene pool.
25.64 Lbs weighed by Mike Katzer was the heavy stringer for all three club.Jim
Stewart was in 2nd place heavy stringer with 13.49 Lbs and Brooks Kersch had third
place heavy stringer of 12.39 lbs and Big Bass of 6.70 Lbs. Kirk London had a
13.73 lb big bass last weekend prefishing for this weekend's tournament on a 10"
Red Shad Power Worm. Altogether the Canyon Bass Club caught 51 bass weighing 118
Lbs. The fish were caught in 5 to 8ft of water in Mexican water starting about
marker 13.
Richard
Drake won the Heavy Stringer honors with 38.30 Lbs. Rodney Marbach was 2md with
37.00 lbs and an 8:15 Lb Big Bass. 
Glenn
Hahn was third with 27.85 Lbs. Roger York and Richard Drake weighed 63.45 Lbs
for Heavy Boat. Payden Tolbert took youth Heavy Stringer honors. 
.
weighing
a big bass of 8.84 Lbs and a heavy stringer of 21.59 Lbs Tim Griffin was in third
place with 18.49 Lbs Heavy Stringer.Mannie Lackey weighed a 5.90 Lb and a 6.08
Lb bass to round out his 20.24 Lb Second heavy Stringer. Fishermen were catching
fish on Magnum Watermelon Red Lizards, Brush Hogs, Chatterbaits and Bill Lewis
1 OZ Rat-L-traps in 72 degree water slightly stained to muddy with 28 Mph winds
and 80 degree high temperatures.
and
the third big bass of 10.48 Lbs to win the top honors and a check for Twenty Thousand
dollars. They caught all the fish off the same tree on watermelon Green and Pumpkinseed
Brush HogsGerald Goff and Ed Matthews took 2nd Heavy Stringer honors with 30.24
Lb and they took home 10,000 dollars including the 5,000 dollar bonus for fishing
out of a Skeeter boat.. They caught their fish flipping a pegged lizard in 5 -12
ft. Eric White caught the big bass of the tournament weighing 
11.42
Lbs and earned a check for 1,000 dollars. The fish bit a Carolina Rigged watermelon
red superfluke in 15 ft of water. The majority of the fish were caught on watermelon
red brushhogs, Falcon Lake Tackle presented gift certigicates to the heavy stringer
and big bass winners. 
heavy stringer weighing
27.71 LBS. Dub Billings was 2nd Heavy Stringer with 23.52 Lbs and Darrell Garza
fishing at Choke had the Big Bass at 11.01 Lbs and 24.38 Lbs Heavy Stringer.
Fifteen
club members participated in this McAllen Bass Anglers individual tournament.
Saturday was a pretty nice day with mild winds from the Southeast. On Sunday the
wind increased to 20-25 mph which made fishing difficult, but there were still
lots of limits and several big fish caught, including some 7-8 pounders. Water
temperature was 68-72 degrees. Most of the bass had apparently already spawned,
although there were a few that still had eggs. Most fish were caught in anywhere
from 3-17 feet of water. Congratulations go to new member Jessie Warren, for the
1st heavy stringer 35.79 Lbs, to Joe Martinez for the 2nd Heavy Stringer34.02
Lbs, and to J.D. Penny for the 3rd heavy stringer 33.28 Lbs. Altogether the anglers
caught 115 bass weighing 321.59 Lbs. 
weighed
in 23.36 Lbs for heavy stringer by Craig White and Tinker Pfullman had the Big
Bass weighing 8.69 Lbs. Dick Mittnick was second heavy stringer with 19.46 Lbs
Sunday: Craig
White's two day total was 34.16 Lbs and Keith Sutherland weighed in 33.72 Lbs.
Shane Pfullman suffered a blown motor on his boat and still managed to weigh in
27.21Lbs for the two days thanks to some buddy chips he called in with Keith Sutherland.
Roger Dove had the Heavy Stringer weighing 36.81 Lbs Jim Marsh was second with
35.93Lbs Heavy Stringer. Pat White had 29.49 Lbs for ladies heavy stringer with
a 6.88 Lb kicker bass.
had
51 Angler's contest the tournament and the team weights for Saturday were 44.59
Lbs 1st Heavy Stringer 
Garrett
Nelson and Justin Pollei with a 10.25 Lb Anchor bass, Wake and Jake Eastman father
and son with 34.37 Lbs and Andy Zavala and Kanena Foeitas were third with 33.68
Lbs. Luke Larsen weighed in 19.19 Lbs with a 6.54 Kicker fish. SUNDAY:Robert
Johnson had the Sunday heavy Stringer weighing 23.97 LBS with a 7.30 Kicker fish.
Marcus Slade weighed in a 8.66 Lber for Big Bass.
John
Givens caught the big
bass of the weekend
for all clubs weighing 11.34 Lbs with a 24.63 Heavy Stringer. Brian Koraska and
Jake Jakubowsky took the weekend two day team heavy stringer honors with 68.73
Lbs. John Givens and his partner had the second place heavy stringer weighing
61 .72 Lbs. Ray Ceder and Randy Roe were third with 61.42 Lbs Mike Shields and
Keith Nichols were fourth with 58.31 Lbs. Altogether, the Club caught 166 fish
weighing 474.88 Lbs
The
buck bass were prevalent in the shallows. Magnum watermelon red Zoom Lizards and
Zoom Brush Hogs in the same color produced the biggest fish.
Penny
Caro had the big bass weighing 9.32 Lbs. Denny Delahunt had a 9#10 Oz bass and
the heavy stringer for Saturday of 26.30 followed by Al Reyna with 23.96 Lbs and
Charlie Parchman with 21.38 Lbs. Charles Parchman had an 8.99 Lb bass Sunday:Richard
Ball had 2 day Heavy Stringer with 43.13 Lbs and Al Reyna was second with 38.12
lbs Bob Buchanan was third heavy stringer with 37 .91 Lbs Altogether the club's
19 fishermen and women weighed in 562.82 Lbs with an average weight of 3.61 Lbs
for the 156 fish caught. Ngarm Ball weighed 31.94 Lbs for heavy stringer ladies.Richard
and Ngarm had heavy couples with 75.07 Lbs. Their were 24 limits of fish caught
and 34 patch fish. Overall the club was elated with the results.
Falcon this weekend. Heart of Texas Bass Club from Austin was here also but we
failed to make their weighin. We understand that Sophal Korng weighed the Heavy
Stringer of 18.64 Lbs and the big Bass of 7.74 lbs Saturday. Sunday was a different
story. Sophal 's fish were not there on Sunday and he weighed only one fish for
1.49 lbs. Scott zMeads hadd the Sunday HS of 24.49 Lbs hi top four fish weighed
6.06, 5.93, 5.50 and 5.33 Lbs.His partner Mike Braley weighed 12.98 Lbs.Jerry
Eller weighed a big bass of 6.29 lbs and a second heavy stringer of 15.35 Lbs.
The Watermelon Red Hoodaddy caught most of Scott's fish.
His partner
Chad Parker weighed in 9.10 Lbs for Heavy Boat weight of 30 .21 lbs. Ronnie Gazaway
had the Sunday Heavy Stringer for 7.80 Lbs
Lbs
Josh Hiler hd the 
second
HS weighing 19.62 Lbs Richard Villareal had the third Heavy Stringer of 15.92
Lbs and the Big Bass weighing 7.50 Lbs Jimbo caught his fish off points in 18
ft of water on red shad 10" Power Worms. Richard's bass came from 8 ft of
water on the hardwoods.
had
the BB for Sunday weighing 7.25 Lbs. it came from 13 ft of water on a Watermelon
Red Brush Hog.Jimbo Beard had the 2nd Heavy Stringer weighing 15.57 Lbs with a
5.31Lb Kicker fish and Josh Hiler weighed in the Heavy Stringer of 20.28 lbs with
6.49 lb and 5.20 Lb kicker fish.Laura Langer had Heavy Stringer Ladies weighing
8.96 Lbs
February
Tournaments at Falcon
this weekend. Aubrey Freeman Sr. took Saturday's Heavy stringer honors weighing
22.49 Lbs with 7.51# and 6.44 # kicker fish. Robert Drzymala weighed the second
heavy stringer of 22.90 Lbs and Richard Flores was third with 22.47 lbs. Susan
Osborne took ladies heavy stringer with 15.86 Lbs and Susan's son,Ryan Osborne,
took youth honors with 3.77 #. Richard Flores caught his fish in 12 ft of water
on Sweet Beaver 5.20 Watermelon Red purchased at Falcon Lake Tackle on Friday.
Some of the other fishermen found the fish shallow in 2 ft of water on Zoom Magnum
Lizards and brush hogs in Watermelon Red. A few fish were caught on spinnerbaits.
Chart and white double willow blades were the best spinnerbaits.
and his big Sweet Beavers hung on for first Place Heavy Stringer with 41.29 Lbs.
Aubrey Freeman Sr.
Was a very close second with 38.54 #. Robert
just
short of the winning heavy stringer of 24.00 Lbs weighed by Emile LaRose. Emile's
big bass weighed north of 8 Lbs.
was third
with 36.91 Lbs. Pat Martin took ladies Heavy Stringer with 26.61 Lbs
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