The winner was everyone who was able to make the Roundup.

Once again Redfin Jim organized and put together a great day on an excellent little lake. Being able to actually battle a Redfish on a tough day was just a bonus.

Spending the day on Jim's new boat along with Fast Guy George was another memorable day. Expert fishermen and gentlemen--just great!

Happy to see all of the familiar faces and meet new folks--if you've ever wanted to chase Freshwater Reds, mark your calendar and don't miss the next Roundup.

Again special thanks to Redfin. He's the one who makes this event go.

Here one more pic of the fish I caught...It was smaller than Rusty's but it was a great fighter.

Great to meet everyone...we will see you next time!
Thanks again to Jim for all his hard work to make this event happen...

Sorry I couldn't get on here sooner to thank you Jim for a wonderful event. The pins are gorgeous and a great piece of memorabilia for those of us that didn't have camera's. Those are some great pictures taken and congratulations to all the winners.
I will be back, maybe with a little more knowledge next time.

TTT

My take on the Redfising on Trading House. It's my third time down there and I got to fish with a couple of Pro's. Z71 or John and Rusty.

We got there pretty early and had a Waterburger Breakfast on the Tailgate. It seemed fitting as we were watching the Sun just barely coming up and some Bass dudes showing up and heading out.

John was getting kind of antsy, saying let's just go on and fish.


Rusty just said hang on Redfin will be here in a few.

So finaly Sasquatch shows up with Redfin shortly after.

We get on the Lake and get on plane and it's COLD. Make it over to the North side of the lake and Rusty puts me through Down Rigger Drills. I really felt stupid till I did it a few times.


Rusty is about 14 years old and I'm pushing 51.

So a trolling we go. I have alot of questions and John answers all. During the morning hours we (or Rusty and John) catch some sandbass and some Gasperoos. Who ever named the fish were mad at them for sure.










OK tired of the trash fish we went to the South side of the lake and were going along and John had told me of bringing folks down and the first time they hooked up with a big Red they thought they were hooked up to structure.

About 20 minutes later my rod goes off. I grab it out of the Rod Holder and think I've got a Lake Record. Not moving and John has some stout rods. False Alarm, just a tree. Heart still pounding we get the bait back and head back to the Honey Hole.


Get back by the Water Intake and John and Rusty each get some trash fish.


Then about 12:30 John's Rod goes off, he grabs it and tries to hand off to me and I refuse, it's his fish. 5 minutes later Rusty get's it in the net. I was deckhanding so didn't get any pics. The fish trashed the net with the DD22 and had to be cleared. This is about a 26 inch fish about 6.5 pounds.

We then thought about moving and let the fish regroup. We decided to stay. I had a couple of pull downs but no solid hookup.

Then about 1:30 John's rod goes off again, he hands off to Rusty and he just reels it in. I'm thinking another Drum but it's a bigger Red than the first one.

This fish dosen't even know it's hooked till he's in the boat and all Heck breaks loose. He's flopping around like crazy bouncing off us and the boat. Once again I'm deckhanding clearing the carnage.

We know this is the place to be so we continue to circle over the structure John know's about. We get some more teases but no more hookups.

Final thoughts of this is I'm now convinced that these fish fight harder than any other Freshwater Fish.

Thanks Redfin for putting this together, my time is coming and thanks John and Rusty for having me.

Kerry

o Kerry I had a good time I just wish you would have caught a red...





Rusty





Jim thanks for putting that tournament together four us

God there is nothing I love more than redfishing. Those are great looking fish guys. After turning in a less than stellar performance at the golf tournament I attended instead, I am very sorry I missed it. I've never fished Tradinghouse but you can bet I'll be down there soon.

The fishing was really off for Tradinghouse reds Saturday. The water is the highest I've ever seen it, wayyyyyyyy on up into the cattails. I'm thinking those reds were up in the cattails doing what redfish do so well - rooting out crawfish and other critters. There should have been more activity spotted by fishermen along the cattail edges if that were so but we saw none nor did we hear any fish slopping around back in the cattails.

capsbaker said the striper fishing is a month late on Texoma (the females are just now starting to come down into the main lake from spawning) so just maybe we were really fishing on April 19th and not May 19th. This has been a strange year so far weather-wise.

There are redfish - BIG redfish - in this lake. Water temps we were seeing were around the 77�-78� mark. Once it gets into the mid-80�'s and the water level back to normal, it should become the redfish lake I know and love again. However, it appears the Waco area is being inundated with more rain right now...may be awhile before lake gets back to normal.

Thank you all for coming down and trying your hand at it. With gas prices starting to get higher, I'll have to limit my trips down there to as close to new moon periods as possible.

I live a little over 8 minutes away and I'm going to be going back all summer. I can't wait for them to get schooled up in the deeper water by the dam area like they usually do every summer.