Amistoad Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 It’s been a while since I was on my local lake here in the lone star state throwing swimbaits. I went last week when it was sunny and warm and scored zilch on a homebrew rat. Yesterday a major cold front blew through and temperatures dropped about 25 degrees to 49 degrees. NICE! Best of all, it’s good and cloudy. So I grabbed my gear, loaded my kayak and booked it to the water after dumping a couple of gallons of coffee down my word hole. I thought about topwaters and some of my other baits, but figured I best start with my A-number one confidence lure. That being the Mattlures slow sink hardgill of course. Possibly the best swimbaits in the world. The bass approved even after I switched colors just to see what might happen. No monsters today, but it was good to feel the tug at the end of my line again. The fish were all shallow, busting bluegill and my baits. Should be a great winter here in Tejas. Thanks to everybody for sharing your catches and stories! They’re inspiring when I can’t get on the water. Hope you got out and got some this weekend! 365swimbait, bigbass45, bchalk22 and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsbadbassin89 Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 Dang some nice fish there Amistoad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolunteerSwimbaits Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 Some nice "Tejas" fish dude Amistoad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthefisherman Posted November 11, 2018 Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 Good fish!! Amistoad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amistoad Posted November 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2018 Next week is supposed to be sunny and warm. Sucks. But I’ll see what’s going on anyway and report back if there’s anything to report. I still haven’t hooked anything on the Bulldozers I have so they’ll be in the rotation for sure. Geronr28 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheMan86 Posted November 12, 2018 Report Share Posted November 12, 2018 Good job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amistoad Posted November 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2018 I haven’t had much love on the swimbaits the last few trips. Which is weird because I know the bass are eating tilapia! Like this 18” fish I found floating with an 8” tilapia wedged in its mouth. Both were still alive and swam off after I invited them to a photo shoot and released them. Cirosciortino, zsneezes and bigpoppabass 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS.6 Posted November 27, 2018 Report Share Posted November 27, 2018 good work quality fish too! Amistoad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
365swimbait Posted November 30, 2018 Report Share Posted November 30, 2018 I love me some hard gills. Nice catch! Amistoad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppabass Posted December 2, 2018 Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 Which pattern are you using? I usually add the lower orange lip myself on my Matts....btw, coffee in the word hole, neat phrase lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amistoad Posted December 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2018 7 hours ago, bigpoppabass said: Which pattern are you using? I usually add the lower orange lip myself on my Matts....btw, coffee in the word hole, neat phrase lol... I usually use the crappie pattern since the bass in this lake are grazing on tilapia most of the time. But I also threw the bright male bluegill pattern. bigpoppabass 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cirosciortino Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 Awesome! Great fish Amistoad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbass45 Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 Nice report, Good work. Thanks Amistoad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cj_bassinish Posted December 3, 2018 Report Share Posted December 3, 2018 Nice fish man! Amistoad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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