Wow, what a weekend at this secret, please dont tell anyone lake. I havnt looked at the records I'm pretty sure no other lake has come very close. Specially in January!!!

There were two weighed in yesterday. Then as if that wasnt amazing enough, two more weighed in today!!!!! One of them by a fellow TFFer. Congrats to you man. Speak up and tell everyone the story.

Yesterday:
13.14 and 13.45
Today:
Another 13.45 and a 13.01

Here are 3 of the 4.

13.01 Caught by Coy.


13.45 Caught by Kevin.


13.14 Caught by Rick.
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wow, i cant wait to get out there this week. those are nice fish. i should be on the lake for a few days in the next week or two. any details on the depth, lure, etc?

Must be A/H?

man what a time for the weather togo south. O forgot doc hasn't cleared me to fish yet

EZ... there is no need to start throwing around lake names like that. AH is a horrilbe pathetic no good lake.... The fishing is so bad I may never fish it again. No one said that was the lake . Lets get back to the topic of 4 huge fish in two days. How unbelievable is that?

EVERYBODY knows Lake Fork is THE big-bass lake in Texas, and nothing else compares. Right???

I meant AAAAHHHHHH those are very nice fish.

Much better EZ. I think your onto something Steven. That must be the lake these are from.

Funny how you two look A LOT ALIKE. And whats with the 'I'm going to kill you look?'

16.12, 13.48 and a 13.16 in one day on fork March 22, 2002(maybe off a bit on the 13's so correct me)

Fork > all

Thats great for Ah though, glad to see another lake producing 13lbers from the program...every lake can use those genetics

Man those are some nice fish congrats maybe one day I will have one of those day's!

AH could very easily be the next big bass lake in texas, it is only 15 years young and ready to peak any year now, i'll be graduating soon and getting out of lubbock so i'll be fishing it as much as possible for the next year or so, look for my sharealunker soon!

Well, cameron. I'm not going to get into comparing the two lakes, as they are both great and have big bass. You do have to consider as far as 3 in one day... There were about 25 boats on the water today and about the same yesterday. How many do you think there were on March 22, 2002 on Fork. If it was a weekend, my guess is over 1000 easy. Now check the % on that. I'm not saying AH is the next Fork and dont want people to get into that. They are different lakes with different positive and negatives.

Spinners... shoot me an email about when you fish.

Awsome fish! No one can take anthing away from these fish. There have been years where there hasn't been 4 ShareLunker bass caught in the whole state! TTU is right about the %, but how long would AH hold up to that kind of pressure? Enjoy it while it lasts because it aint going to get much better than this. I just wish I lived closer to your lake. Way to go guys.

16.15, 15.65 and 13.95 I think is actually what they were Cameron.

Way to tell the whole world TTU!!! Looks like I'm going to have to find a new lake to fish. Enjoyed fishing with you Sunday.

Brad

I still look pretty dazed in that picture (on top). As a matter of fact, I am pretty dazed right now. The state finally showed up at about 12:15 a.m. this morning to get the fish. I wanted to wait and send her off, so the good folks at Grubbs fed me coffee for 7 hours while we waited. Both fish seemed in great shape as the TPW truck left the lake last night. The guy driving the truck said that both fished were in better shape than most. I have the phone number to the hatchery, and I am going to call later and check on their status as of today.

As far as the story goes, it was about as good as it could get--a 13 in a tournament. I was fishing the ABA tournament and had seen one of the 13s caught on Saturday after I was done prefishing. I had a few fish located and was fairly certain about the depth and lure. By 10 a.m. I had a five pounder and two quality fish right around 16 inches long. On Alan Henry, you can only weight two fish under 18 inches, so I had culled through 5 or 6 other fish to get to my best 3 fish. The fish I caught in the morning were holding on a ledge that dropped off into a creek channel. So at about 10:30 a.m., I remembered a spot that had a similar ledge falling into a channel. Went in there and found a ton of fish in water that was about two degrees warmer than the main lake (49.3 degrees). At straight up noon, I threw a chartreuse/green back DD22 onto the top of the ledge and the bait never made it to the deep water. The fish made about three short bursts but never really got out of control. On the second pass by the boat, the non-boater I had drawn for the tournament very causaully scooped the fish into the dipnet. I knew she was big but wasn't sure how big. I weighed her on an old set of Berkley scales I have and the readout went to 12.5. So me thinking that other people may also be on good fish, I tossed her in the livewell and kept fishing. It wasn't until the tournament director's scales at the weigh-in read 13.1 that I even thought about a Share-a-Lunker. As soon as I knew she was that big, I lost all interest in the tournament and just wanted to get her in the program. Ended up with 20.4 pounds to win the the tournament and big bass. As much as I have dreamed about catching a Share-a-Lunker, it never crossed my mind about having it happen in a tournament. I guess all of us get lucky every now and again. Thanks Curtis for posting the pictures, and thanks to my non-boater (who was from Colorado and thought that my five pounder was a monster) for net duty.

Squib--Congrats again.

Brad

Congrats Squib!!

How long do you guys think the wait on the ramp will be this spring?

All you East boys just keep fishing Fork....there aren't any good fish in this part of the state.

Just got off the phone with the folks in Athens. I was told they were working up the fish this morning and they were very pleased with the shape all the fish are in. All four are alive and well. The director told me that often times the fish are pretty beat up when they get to Athens and that these four had no scrapes or cuts and no fin injuries. The director said he had just seen them work my fish up and that it was nice that I didn't yank it through the brush when I caught it. I wanted to tell him that I had no control over that--the fish pretty much went where she wanted and I just held on and prayed.

There was some concern that one of the fish caught on Saturday was not going to make it after being caught out of 40 feet of water. There were several attempts to deflate the air bladder at the lake and the fish was in pretty bad shape when it was picked up. Apparently that fish has made a full recovery and is doing fine. I know Ben will feel better knowing that.

Man, that is just awsome. Conragulations on your sharelunker and winning the tournament. What a day indeed.

beautiful fish,man would i love one of those!

Fantastic !!! Congratulations squib. Some guys get it all. Win the tournament, big bass and share-a-lunker all in one day. Thats incredible.

Sweet!!!!

Squib, there's nothing more to say than Sweet. That is great man. I'm smiling ear to ear just hearing the story.

Maybe some day that could happen to me.

I still dont think that these are the best days at AH, we will see. As for the increased pressure, it hopefully will help the city and lake authorities improve the facilities at the lake and ramp. the portapotties just wont do for much longer especially after lubbock has continually promised full restroom facilities. also, no complaining about pressure on the lake, this is a sport we take part in, so it will only raise the bar. it will never see the pressure that Fork draws based soley on the fact that the closest "large" city to AH is lubbock and that is an hour away. fork has NEVER had that luxury. so perhaps we are looking at the new big bass lake in texas.