Fished with repeat guest Barron , son Brian and coworker ... Stated out at 8:00 am and had 75 fish limits by 9:40 am ... Moved about 200-300 yards out and screen was blank .. Did a little fish calling and the graph lite up when we where limited with whites we went hybrid hunting .. Well .. We found more whites and 1 legal hybrid ... But thats ok .. We stayed busy till 12:00 pm and went in to clean fish .. Use small slabs and very little movement on them is the trick .. Luckily for us the wind was light enough to drift but the fish stayed with us these where huge whites ... And soft bite .. Make for an excellent day .. All fish caught on 3/4 oz godfathers from www.moestackleshop.com in 27-32
ft water .. Winds where S-SE at 5-10 and ways temps where 52 degrees ... The pic below is not all the fish .. There was another 26 in the live well ...�

Don't forget I am running a special ... 3 for the price of 2 fisherman ... That's $83.33 a piece .. I still have a few days open for spring break and some other days .. Give me a call or PM ... 15 yrs fishing Ray Hubbard and 8 yrs guiding .. The whites are so plentiful this late winter and huge !!!! Thanks guys !!!�

Great job as usual John!

Awesome job buddy!! You boys need to call John and get in some of this hot action while it is on!!

they will eat

Nice Mess of fish. Good job!

Graph looks good!!

Good work John, its great when the fishing is this good. And this is before we even get our "overstocking program" underway.

You can not beat that price for a guide, and John will put you on some good fish.

Nice fishies!

Nice report J.V. Good to see you out there yesterday. It was an awesome day to be on the lake. Great Job.

John...thank you for a great morning.
Folks...a trip with John Varner on Hubbard is education in fishing. He can show you what to look for on your graphs...he can tell you where the fish will be, depending on the seasons...he can tell you what baits to use and when to use them. And, he can teach you about the latest techniques... And the catching was good, too. Take advantage of his special deal...it will be money well spent. Thanks, again, John
Barron

Thank you Barron .. It was a pleasure having you guys on my boat

Another Bump for Mr. John Varner. This is one of the greats on Hubbard so Y'all book a trip with him

Had the chance to have action Jackson and his friend Nick on the boat today for Jackson birthday that is tomorrow started at 8:00 am broke for lunch at 11:30 am then fished from 12:30 pm till 2:00 pm ... If u got that started out with strong West winds and fighting strong whites I have to say the winds today where brutal .. My twin brother Todd was out with "ladies man" RAY and they were on fish as usual .. When that furious action stopped we went to look in a little calmer waters , that wind switched to the North West and the bite slowed and spear the fish out .. We managed more but scattered ... Don't know how many whites we caught but a limit for 3 would be close and managed some legal hybrids and shorties also .. Water temp was 58-59 degrees which is insane this time of year and winds were bad fish caught from me on slabs from www.moestackleshop.com with some plastics .. Just drifting in the rod holders , flukes .. They still work but will start with CO-HO's real soon ... The small 3/4 oz slabs have worked best for me in 22-28 ft water .. Just a slow lift not to fast ... It's was a good but windy day ... Thanks guys !!!







It was a pleasure to have luch with the guys as my twin brother and the Ladies Man joined us





I still have some open dates starting next Friday on 3-9-12 thru 3-18-12 during that whole week .. Special of fish 3 for the PRICE OF 2 !!! That's $83.33 a piece give me a call ...

Nice report. Looking forward to meeting you tomorrow!

Proline19 said he saw two yellow and white Sea-Pro's gettin' slapped up and down and all around out there right before he left for work this morning....

Can't think of a better way of spending a birthday. Nice Catch.

Nice birthday gift!! Thanks for the report JV

Great report, you gotta love this warm weather. I also got some timely pics today while I was work, thanks Todd. Hopefully they will still be biting tomorrow, at the present time my wife is accompanying me but, I have a feeling that will play out in the morning. I keep telling her 60 degrees is warm and it will be really nice out tomorrow, she keeps asking me why I want the temp at home set to 69 degrees if 60 is so pleasant.

Happy birthday Mr. Bean.

Thanks guys.

It was a great day spent with friends.

We started catching within' 20 seconds of putting our lines in the water.

Gotta love those days.

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone.

If the weather cooperates we are headed to T-Wak for even more on Sunday.



Jackson

Huh, didnt tell us yesterday at Dodies?? Happy birthday, Action!! Have a good one buddy!

My (aggie) wife Rebecca's birthday was yesterday. We went out last night and had a great time!!

I will be on Tawakoni Sunday. Say hey Jackson.

Happy Birthday Action! Glad to see you got to have so much fun on your 30th birthday! See you soon.

Nice work! Glad to see Y'all let Nick reel a few in! Happy Bday Jackson!
Great lookN fish

Fish with first-time guest Tommy, Oanh and Tu . Left the marina at 12:30 PM and fished till 5:40 PM. Started out bouncing slabs off the bottom for white bass and made several drifts and caught a lot of fish. Our magic depth for the white bass was 24 feet and we would get schools of fish underneath the boat and hook up. When that finally played out we moved around the lake check just a couple of spots and at one time I looked up and had birds working out in deep water. I tied on the sassy shads and we started hooking up with hybrids. The birds moved to another area but we stayed with our drift and caught numerous fish. It's was an excellent day on the water. Don't forget in deep water let the sassy shad sink all the way to the bottom and just do a slow to medium crank. We hammered them with the Nanna color 4 inch on a 3/4 oz jig head... Just remember when the birds stop working doesn't mean the fish have left . The 3/4 oz godfather topped with sandie candy was the white bass killer of the day . All fish caught on tackle from www.moestackleshop.com in 24-32 ft water. Winds were North 5-15 mph and temp was 56 degrees. I still have some dates open for spring break at my special 3 for 2 ... That's $250.00 for 3 people. Give me a call !!!

Man I love those pics. Looks like those clients had a ball.

Reggie

Looks like you got em onto some nice fish. Good job!

Well done, twin Brother!! Some great smiles!!

Heard several buddies are out today. Big pardy! Windy? Havent gottn any braggin txt pics yet though....hmmm.

Great day JV!

Fished today with guest Asian 1, Asian 2 , and lovely Asian 3 .. ( don't blame me that's what they said report lol ... We had a great day today .. Started at 1:00pm ...oh wait , Asian 2 was late started at 2:00 pm and fished till 5:30pm ... Made a few drifts and the fish I have been catching where very scattered ... So we went looking ... Tried another stop with some big whites and 1 hybrid that was lost .. Yup .. U guessed it .. Asian 2 again seen a boat show across the lake and went to investigate .. Moved 200 yards away from them and checked and area that I like and it was fish on
!!! Hooked 9 legal hybrids and the rest of their white bass limit !!!! I never dropped the trolling motor today .. All drifts .. And believe it or not the 7 hybrids came on 3/4 godfather slabs and the other 2 on sassy shad Nanna color ... All fish caught on lures from www.moestackleshop.com in 24-29 ft water .. Winds where a pleasant 5-12 mph S and water temps where 57 degrees .. I still have a couple days open during spring break at the special price 3 for the price of 2 .. That's $83.33 a person give me a call ...











And as everybody knows ... I love my Asian brothers and sisters!!!! My twin brother can vouch for me .. And my guest today said for fun use Asian 1,2 and 3 And today and yesterday the wonderful WOMEN kicked the guys butts

Very nice, Looks like very happy customers.

Great job buddy!! I saw these fish in person as I was bringing the Yellow Tahoe back in from a pleasure ride this evening!! Yes that big hybrid in the middle was as big in real life as it looks in the pic!! WoW!!

It's true I seen them fishies! like to call them not white John, bbbbuuutttt you said it! Lol.

Tell you what, they were happy customers!!

I drove by the lake today and saw the boat show and sailboats from shore. I knew the fish were biting and there was nothing I could do about it. Nice work putting your clients on the fish.


Reggie

Good seeing you out there today! You had another boat full of happy customers again today! Good job!!

NICE!!

NICE!!

Thats a nice bunch of fish! Nice work

Who's on first?? Whats on second?? LOL. Sheeesh, have to agree with Ruben those are some bigguns!! Twok like!!

wrong Todd......AINT NUTTIN LIKE TWAK

bragger...I still enjoy fishing at my home lake

fun time sir. might of been limit on hybrids as well if it weren't for a blue pontoon boat...



give john varner the fish whisperer a call. he'll hook you up. literally.

Thank you sir !!! It was a great time

Woo Hoo!!!!!!! Looking forward to our trip !!!!!!!!

+1

Saw the blue pontoon, he just doesn't have a clue!

Think we delt with him the day before also!

Hey Mr. Blue pontoon STOP DOIN WHAT YOU'RE DOIN!

Rant over
Mike

Wow!

Spring break is about over and what a week it has been won't write about each day because that would be way to long of a post ... Fished Monday , 2 trips on Wednesday , Thursday � and 2 trips on Friday . Some only kept a few and some kept there limit of whites . The week started out strong and by Friday had to work a little bit .And finished Sunday (today) with a windy performance .. 6 legal hybrids and a mess of white bass ... The whites were all quality size and found a few hybrids mixed in . Afternoons have been easier then mornings . It is pretty neat to catch fish starting a few months back down south and follow their migration to north . It happens every year. I really enjoy spring break cause of the kids that get to fish this week has been everything from barely marking fish hugging the bottom to blown up screens to fish blowing shad out of the water !!!! All fish were. Aught on 3/4 oz godfather slabs , 4 inch Co-Co-Mo's to 4 inch NANNER sassy shad from www.moestackleshop.com in 2ft water to 29ft ... Winds where up and down some days really strong .water temps were 56-62 degrees .. I have some openings so give me a call ...�


















As you can tell by my boat ... It's been a slaughter fest :)�


Also had a couple of trips with catch and release ... All white bass and I don't have some of the individual pics .. Thank you to all my guest and fellow TFF guest also swim baits have been retrieved at a medium speed and slabs slowly raised ...�

Looks like Fatty and Evan had a great time.

Jv Jake and I had a great time. Thanks for putting us on fish and being everything a guide should be. Your great at what you do.

We had a blast!!

JV is a great dude, and can put ya on fish.

It was rough windy conditions and the trolling motor batteries went poop on us, but he got us some HUGE fish and great memories!!

The nanner sassy shad was killer on those big hybrids!!


BTW we threw back more than we kept. My dad only wanted a few fillets (I hope that 8,9 lb bag of fillets was enough LOL)

Good stuff JV

JV is my new hero now cuz one hybrid was over 10#.

Sorry VIP, your "hero" rental is up buddy

Hey JV... Terry (Blue Tuna) called last night and said you all wore them out. Nothing like taking a grandson fishing like Terry did. Priceless...

I saw Varner at the boat ramp Friday night. His crew had a humongous ice chest full of fish, Hybrids and Sandies. JV can really put you on some good fish.

Very, very nice!

Nice post, and awesome pics!! JV was one of the first guys to help me out years ago on Hubbard when I first started.


GLAD Y'ALL WHAKD EM!

Mike

Thank you guys !!!! Had a fun week

Good job John!

Had first time guest Ted , Jonathan and Kevin for an afternoon trip. Fished from 2:00 pm till 8:00 pm . Let's say from the 2-5 o'clock hours where a little slow . When I started I tried a little middle April pattern and guess what !!!! It's not the middle of April yet but I thought with the warm temps might be a little early . Should have never left the area where I have been catching fish for a month finally found a couple hybrids and lost a couple .. Late bite was very good .. 3 inch Co-Co MO'S where our ticket today .. Did catch a few on 4 inch NANNER sassy ... Don't forget about www.moestackleshop.com GARAGE SALE THIS WEEKEND !!!! I will be there when I can to B.S. fish where caught 2-12 ft water and temps where 69-71 degrees with 0 wind to start and a good 15 as the day went ... I have some openings and am still running my spring special 3 people for $250.00 until mid April. Thanks guys had a good time and don't forget about the GARAGE SALE AT www.moestackleshop.com�

Nice!!

Way to go John! This may their first time fishing with you but it certainly won't be the last. It looks like you had to fish the graveyard shift with the flashlight being in the pic.

I bet I know where yall caught these!

Good job JV!

Looks like ya found some nice fish Bro! See ya this weekend!

Good!

Awesome!

Nice Mess of fish. Good job.

Your crew looks like they had a great time!!! I am thinking about getting out Sunday afternoon but I just heard the wind is suppose to be rally high. Hopefully the weather man is wrong.

We kept 7 hybrids and 29 sandies, and released countless under size hybrids and sandies. We have to give credit to JV. He tried hard to put us in the midst of feeding zone. Hybrids are big and fat. Many sandbass are 14-15 inches. At our last spot they kept biting until dark. That was a good 30-45 minute period of non-stop actions bringing our trip to a nice finale.

JV, Good Job! We had a good tim. Thank you.

The wind speed will be 13 mph Sunday afternoon. Saturday is better and the pattern should be the same as 3/29.

JV, Jonathan here.
Thanks for a good trip yesterday.
Yeah, the actions didn't start until the wind picked up after 5pm and once those hybrids started biting, game on. Overall, i had alot of fun but was realy tired when i got home.

John, Kevin here!

This might be our first time fishing with you but it certainly won't be the last.

Well .. I did a little late afternoon fishing yesterday and we did fairly well. Fished from 6:00 pm till 8:00 pm and hooked to some nice hybrids and whites. Water was 71 degrees , winds S-15 and depth was ...all fish caught on 3 inch CO-Co Mo's and 4 inch NANNER sassy shad from www.moestackle.com . Had my brother and action Jackson with me

I have dates open so give me a call. I am running a special until May 1,2012 ...been doing great since before spring break

Huh? Twin brother has a long lost "brother" that I dont know about??? Did you win the lotto??

Did not win the lotto .. But my REAL brother lost a $160.00 rod and reel that's why I don't take him

That sucks.

Nice catch! Good report. You never fail to put your customers on quality fish.

+1
Adios to your long lost brother, twin brother

OH BROTHER!

Thank you for your courage!

nice fish!

Very nice fish, good job!
That one hybrid almost looks deformed it is so fat.

Thanks for the report John and the great pictures too. Also good to see you at the tackle sale last saturday

Had a very good 4 days of fishing and I don't think my guest would say any different Had 3 morning trips and 1 afternoon. The afternoon trip started out waiting at the ramp for the storms to stop and we got a little late start and since I did not have to clean fish we fished till dark. My pattern has been the same for all the trips , hybrids stripping drag and white bass knocking the fire out of slabs The new Peekwi Chieftain slab from www.moestackleshop.com is an awesome bait and you cant go wrong with the SD sassy Shad and Nanner I have caught fish in a steady range of 16-29 ft all 4 days and they are feeding hard and very few fish have not spawned that I have cleaned ... doesn't matter wind direction, Rain, gates open ...Nothing better than a young kid with a spinning rod screaming that he got one as a 5 lb hybrid is stripping line... the only thing close is the adults that is screaming because he has a hybrid stripping line I have been fishing Hubbard for 15 yrs and guiding 8 and I hear people say things are early or late every year.. well according to my logs I keep.. that is true or false.. some of it early, none has been late and alot right on time Nothing makes a guide or a person feel good when they say " lets try this area, fish should be here " and first cast , they have one !!!! 2 of my trips where with repeats that I consider friends and very enjoyable like today that a man that works so hard spends time fishing with his dad like they did when he was a young boy, and tell you.." John, thank you.. I don't get to fish with dad much anymore and this was awesome". I know I get paid to guide.. but boys and girls .. that's why I guide.. I enjoy my job very much, it is a passion not just a business , not just to make a boat payment or support a habit.. or like Saturday when a young 9 yr old loves to fish.. and as you show him how to take off a fish or tie a lure he is listing to every word, soaking it in .. and very next fish I tell him let me take it off.. and he says, Mr. Varner .. I would like to try.. and he does I would like to thank all my guest, repeats and new for MY enjoyable business and the experiences that I get to enjoy and even though they think they are getting the better of the deal with memories, they do not know .. the memories I get ..

I have a few days open left for April, give me a call or email.

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Saturday



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Monday

With very special guest Gerald Garcia , the owner of www.lastangelstattoos.com the best body art tattiest in Dallas

JV I can't thank you enough for the PERFECT fishing trip today!!! You are amazing at what you do and an even better friend! Coming from a big family I don't ever get my Dad all to myself anymore and today was very special. My wrist is literally sore from setting hooks all day. I can't wait for the next fishing trip which needs to be VERY SOON! THANKS AGAIN!

JV quote of the day "Don't pump the rod! She's not a F'n Tuna!"! Hahahaha classic!

Edit: BTW, that new line of lures you are using is OFF THE CHAIN! I'm dumping my box out and filling up on the new hotness!

Great report JV

slayin! nice going jv

Nice mess of fish. Good job.

WOW!! What an exciting four days for you J.V and your clients. Thanks for the report and pictures it sounded like it was a blast

Great report and good pics . I'll be out there in a couple hours and hope its half that good.

Whoah, great report mr. Varner!!

-Twin brother

Very nice!!! Your clients always have a smile on their face.

Looks like a good day on the water!

Serious waves in one of those pics!

Charlie

Holly Snikes? You have been busy! Nice work

Nice John very nice

That fish in the cooler is huge! Way to go!

Nice read John! Awesome pics. Congrats

Great job Mr. Varner!! John was torturing me all weekend with his trip pics so I had to get out there Monday morning to get in on some of that action!!

Varner is so good that he can give reports on future trips.....

4/9 4/10 4/11 4/12 ?!?!?

sorry bud... just pokin fun at ya

great job.

and i agree.... i sometimes dont even fish when i have the boys. watching them is twice as much fun as catching one myself.

Haha good eyes PlanoSooner. I get my winning lotto numbers from my twin brother weekly......and thats why I am working instead of fishing today

Thank you for that I was so tired when I made my post I opened up the calender and started out with the wrong date and just followed

Thanks guys

I was on the Friday morning trip and can tell you it was a blast! But we always have a blast when we are with John. Mainly giving eachother [censored]!

On our trip, we had me, my dad, a client/friend, and my nine year old son. I fish with my dad a lot. Since his health is not great I appreciate everytime we go out My son has been going fishing with me since he was about five. Our trips usually consist of fishing for an hour tops and then he wants to swim. On this day, he fished the entire trip and caught more fish than he ever has before. My son doesn't talk too much around strangers but when he got in the truck he raved about what a great time he had and how it was the best fishing trip he'd ever been on. He said he is now my new fishing partner. With that said, we spent half of the day Sunday searching for him a new spinning rod since that is what John let him use.

John knows "It's all about the kids"

Whew now thats alot of fish!

Had first time guest Melvin, Jerry and Darren for a little morning trip Fish have been right where I have been catching them for 2 weeks Started out throwing 4in Sassy Nanners but had to quickly down size to the 3 in CO-CO -MOE's ... they wanted the smaller bait today for some reason Nothing like Hybrids stripping line on a spinning reel !!!! If I can only get my guest to realize that lure head will not fit through that little eye on the rod we could be ok.. I bet we have lost 20 hybrids because of this problem the last week or so Catching was great but soon the Friday 13th jinx set in.. I threw my $300.00 dollar Doybin and Revo combo over the side of the boat I guess the lure wrapped around the eye and I threw it.. and looked as it hit the water and sank like a rock !!!! grabbed another rod with a 2 oz fiesta but it was gone, tried for a few minutes but no luck... It just came out of my hands.. dont know why .. but we did manage more fish after that Then when I got back to CHANDLERS MARINA I went to set up my stuff, power was locked... It took me forever to hunt down the manager , THE NEW ONES, and he informed me that I could NOT clean my fish at his marina anymore, even though I pay an annual launch fee.. I talked him into letting me one more time so I could clean my guest fish.. apparently they DONT LIKE FISHERMAN anymore with the new owners and only $500,000.00 dollar boats and sail boats.. so , luckily my annual pass expire next month and will take my business to Harbor Bay Marina.. I talked to JOE, the manager and he WELCOMES fisherman there.. So if anybody need to launch go there ok, over my rant.. all fish caught on Lures from www.moestackleshop.com in various depths of water.. After that I meet the guys at Harbor Bay, Frank,Superduck, Terry and Ray..VIP , Fillet Maker, Seapro , Bombbay , Rat Trap, Tall Bald Guy and others and ate a little fish.. thanks guys for the welcome and good seeing everybody....









Look at the shad in this hybrids belly.. almost all of them where chowing down

I have next Friday open if anybody is interested ... just give me a call or email

Well darn, guess you gotta take it like a man and buy a sailboat, you'll need one tomorrow anyway

That sucks about Chandlers. I mentioned to the new owner when I bought my annual pass earlier this year about building a fish cleaning station, he turned his nose up about it. This may be my last year there.

Fishing was pretty good today I thought but, when we got back to Chandler' and saw what Varner brought in we had a slow day. NICE FISH !!!

That boat looks too clean.

I hate to hear that John, I really like chandlers set up and ramp. Harbor bay ramp is so dang steep! I've put in many time over there so no biggie. My trailor actually rubs the concrete cause such a steep drop. Doesn't bother me, but freaks anyone else out standing around.

Glad you had a good outing, and then hooked up with the gang!

Good fishin
Mike

Yeah, Proline 19 filled me in on the Chandler details at work the other day. After John's Sand Bass tournament this year, no more tournaments out of Chandler's, none, zip, nada, zero. Claims tournaments take up all the clients parking spaces. Maybe JP could buy the new owner out - JP's rich!

Looks like a great time on the lake. Nice catch. Good job.

nice catches

Great report Mr. Varner!! You guys killed the hybrids!!

-twin brother

Very nice fish and great pic of belly shad!

Good job J.V.....

Nice fish and report JV... It looked like you had some things on your mind yesterday and now I see why. I hate losing those rod/reels. I've actually put those floaters on mine after losing two combos last year. I've been at Harbor Bay 20+ years. I've spoken to the manager in the past about hosting some tournaments and as far as I've heard they run weekly bass tourneys out of there. So hopefully yours can move there next year. Joe is a great guy and just moved to working inside at Harbor Bay. I sent some plates of food over to the office people yesterday. Terry went in his outfit along with my wife. I'm sure that was a funny site!

Looks like a super time. Nice Catch!