Had the past few days off, but went out to scout and check up the fish a couple hours each day anyway. SRA website reports Tawakoni at 7.52' low this morning. Water temps on the mainlake the past few days has held steady at 55 degrees mid-day. Saw some mild schooling action under a few birds early Tuesday, but that is about all the schooling action I have seen lately. Fishing early has been tough. About 11am the fish are finally starting to gang up around mainlake points and timber. The key depth has been 20-25 feet deep. I did find a few fish suspended out deep around some loons the other day,but that pattern has been inconsistant. I have been pretty much just strolling an assassin very slow to catch fish. Today I had to downsize to a 4" to get bites. It has not been blow your mind fishing lately, but I have had between 15 and twenty keeper striper and hybrid each day. The good news is that I have found some monster hybrid each day. So fat they look like tuna Timing has been the key to catching lately. If you go out a couple hours and aren't catching much, stick with it. Tuesday they never really bit until nearly 2pm, but then it was great for a couple hours. I have a lot of openings coming up and deadsticking is starting to pay dividends. I think we are about to see some really great fishing in the next week or two.

Thanks for the report Matt. Going to try and hit it beginning of next week. See if we get wet and cold for nothing. But if we catch, it will be well worth it.

Nice report Big C! Thats about how Fast & I did yesterday! Very nice looking catfish ya got

Fished from 3 to 5 today with tomorrows customers.... They are staying overnight, so with the weather coming in we decided to hit it a coule hours tonight and hope to get a couple in tomorrow before the front. Heard it was a tough morning, so we went straight to deadsticking. Caught 6 or 8 really nice keeers right off the bat, then looked for some birds. Never found any working, but we did find a slew of short striper out deep. Caught a few more and called it a night. Hoping to see some schooling tomorrow before the front.

Well today was one of those days you get lucky enough to have maybe 3 or 4 times a year if you fish nearly every day. Today we caught and released over 100 fish. We kept every sand bass we caught and only had 25 of them. We stopped keeping bigs short of our limit because the cooler was full Mostly deadsticking deep water flats, but occasionally birds would work and we would get greedy and check them to see if hey were on bigger fish The graph looked like this for over 2 hours:



It was truly a Holy Cow kinda day. We had multiple quadruple hookups and literally left fish still biting so that these folks could still make a First Monday Trip Guess the front sparked the fire. The lake was rough, but wow what a day!

WOW!!!

Sounds like a great day, we had the same thing yesterday.

Thanks for the valiant effort to get us on the phone Matt!! I had my phone in the glove box cause of the off and on rain showers. We were down south catching ditch pickles, and that wasn't too bad either when we decided to head home. Well that's when we ran across you and about 300 diving birds just tearing up the water.
I told my buddy oh my gosh look at all those birds!! And sure enough who was right in the middle of them by himself, but Matt Cartwright and his clients!!!!

We got a few really nice ones, but my trolling motor was going dead so we did the best we could. Weather was pretty crazy but WORTH IT!!!





See ya
Mike

We may have to change the lake name to lake Cartwright.

Those are some awesome fish!!!!!!

Man that is NUTS!!!!

Nice job, Matt. I've always heard good things about you, and I can see it's true.

Awesome! You da man!

Awesome Matt!!

If you've never fished with Matt he will put you on fish and he is also a hoot to be in a boat with...

Love it when the graph looks like that! Those fish are FAT!

Nice work Matt. Good looking fish. way to put your crew on the fish.

Mike ( luv-2-fish ) Glad you got to get out and do some fishing. I went a head and took your advice and : GOT BACK TO WORK " I am on the way to work right now lol

Great report guys

Keith,you're the workenest sum biatch I've ever seen!!!!!

Dude take a break and go fishin!!!

You're more than welcome to jump on my boat any
day!!!

Have a good one!!

Mike

Great job Matt and nice report I'll bet you had some happy customers!

Man, that's impressive! Matt, you're livin' right!

Thanks Mike. At work now . Right now we are doing all the holiday ads and catalogs. It is like this every year. So after the middle of january we will slow down. Then I can get back in the swing of things.

Thanks for the offer mike. We need to definitely get a fishing trip in soon. Since it is nasty out , might as well work today also LOL! ( They called us in )

might as well!

Dayuum, Reuben said said you got into them, but I didn't know it was to that level. Great job, as always.

Thanks guys, we got lucky and just happened to be out there when it was like that. At one point I never touched my trolling motor for nearly 30 minutes. We just drifted and stayed hooked up nearly constantly. I wish I had video of the graph. It was truly amazing. It seemed as though the whole lake was inundated with fish.

dang MATTHEW

Nice job Matt.

Those are some round fish!

Wow, thats a crazy pic on the graph. Hope my graph will look half that good this Friday!!! Matt, all your fish pics look the same...

...the same as in