Congratulations to all that was able to adjust and find the bigger fish.
I had a decent practice and was getting some pretty good bites on deep brush up until I got off the water shortly after noon on Wednesday.
I figured they would be moving up shallow any time so I started in a classic shallow staging area were I had got quality bites on traps each time I checked it through the week. Nothing happing on the trap for me so we go run the deeper stuff and never got a bite. Went back shallow and co angler catches 3 pretty quick on a spinnerbait, I pickup a spinnerbait and we catch several short fish. Get back to the back of a drain into 62 water and see beds everywhere,then the Bucks move in after noon and we proceeded to catch over 20 fish to weed through and manage a couple small limits. I didn't feel too bad when some of the local hammers weighed in small bags as well.
Day two I just knew the big girls would have moved up overnight but no luck, just about the same as day one and still no deep bite. Drew a local co angler that has done well in previous events so we ran his stuff and caught a bunch of fish but never found any size. I did have a 4-5lb fish on a wacky senko behind some bushes but come unbuttoned before I could get to her.
If you have a chance to get down to Rayburn in the next week or so you better take it, it's fixing to bust wide open. The BFL March 3rd and 4th should be a sight fishing shootout if the weather cooperates.

Congratulations to all that was able to adjust and find the bigger fish.
I had a decent practice and was getting some pretty good bites on deep brush up until I got off the water shortly after noon on Wednesday.
I figured they would be moving up shallow any time so I started in a classic shallow staging area were I had got quality bites on traps each time I checked it through the week. Nothing happing on the trap for me so we go run the deeper stuff and never got a bite. Went back shallow and co angler catches 3 pretty quick on a spinnerbait, I pickup a spinnerbait and we catch several short fish. Get back to the back of a drain into 62 water and see beds everywhere,then the Bucks move in after noon and we proceeded to catch over 20 fish to weed through and manage a couple small limits. I didn't feel too bad when some of the local hammers weighed in small bags as well.
Day two I just knew the big girls would have moved up overnight but no luck, just about the same as day one and still no deep bite. Drew a local co angler that has done well in previous events so we ran his stuff and caught a bunch of fish but never found any size. I did have a 4-5lb fish on a wacky senko behind some bushes but come unbuttoned before I could get to her.
If you have a chance to get down to Rayburn in the next week or so you better take it, it's fixing to bust wide open. The BFL March 3rd and 4th should be a sight fishing shootout if the weather cooperates.

Congratulations to all that was able to adjust and find the bigger fish.
I had a decent practice and was getting some pretty good bites on deep brush up until I got off the water shortly after noon on Wednesday.
I figured they would be moving up shallow any time so I started in a classic shallow staging area were I had got quality bites on traps each time I checked it through the week. Nothing happing on the trap for me so we go run the deeper stuff and never got a bite. Went back shallow and co angler catches 3 pretty quick on a spinnerbait, I pickup a spinnerbait and we catch several short fish. Get back to the back of a drain into 62 water and see beds everywhere,then the Bucks move in after noon and we proceeded to catch over 20 fish to weed through and manage a couple small limits. I didn't feel too bad when some of the local hammers weighed in small bags as well.
Day two I just knew the big girls would have moved up overnight but no luck, just about the same as day one and still no deep bite. Drew a local co angler that has done well in previous events so we ran his stuff and caught a bunch of fish but never found any size. I did have a 4-5lb fish on a wacky senko behind some bushes but come unbuttoned before I could get to her.
If you have a chance to get down to Rayburn in the next week or so you better take it, it's fixing to bust wide open. The BFL March 3rd and 4th should be a sight fishing shootout if the weather cooperates.