Me and my son are doing a split trip to Picachos and El Salto in mid March. This will be our first time down there, fishing 2 1/2 days at each lake. From the reports people catch 50 - 100 fish per day, based on that we would like some advice on how much tackle to bring.

How many bags of soft plastics, 10' worms, Brush Hogs, Lizards, Senkos, etc.. should we take?

What is the best size worm weights and how many of each do you take?

What is the best size and type of line to take?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ken

take 50 bags of mag flukes and a bunch of hooks and 1/2-3/4 weights

my son and I take 50 bag of watermelon red 5 inch senkos and 50 pack of black blue 5 inch senkos....25 pack of 1/4 oz weights and 25 pack of 5/0 hooks..25 buckeye 5/16 jig heads and at least 50 magnum watermelon red trick worms.....been happy with carrying 3 reels for each of us spooled with 20lb sunline sniper 20lb test line...couple rico pop R type baits although topwater at either lake hasn't been very good for us last couple years...just about anything you take down there will catch fish....last year we caught 563 fish in 3 days at picachos biggest 6.40 but a lot of 2-4lb fish...we caught 165 at el salto..2 over 8lbs and several 6-7lb fish...couple of guys had fish over 9 lbs and one guy had 11lb fish....we went with ron speed last several years and been well pleased with the fishing/ guides/food/accomodations....

Lots of Senko (de mayo as the guides say), some lizards, some mag flukes, buzz baits, 1/2 oz weights(Heavy Texas rig will get the job done no need to be fancy), 4/0 ands 5/0 hooks, a few rattle traps, a few popping baits, a few spinner baits, and reels with 15 and 20lb line.

At Picachos you'll easily have 50 bass by lunch. I second the senko type baits, less hangups and it's plenty brushy. I had the best luck on the bigger sized Yum Dingers in watermelon/pearl. Went through about 80 per day.

Thanks for the response, this is very helpful!

Senkos and Mag Lizzards - white spinner bait and a spook also

Same baits you use here but put a little bit of habanero sauce on them.

Bring some kind of superglue so you can repair old used baits if you start to run out. The Bass in Mexico don’t care if your baits are brand new or have been glued back together a few times.

Zara spook and jig

Zoom magnum lizards in watermelon and watermelon red, figure on 30 a day, chartreuse dipping die.
I take 4 reels spooled with 15# fluro and 3/8 oz tungsten weights.
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In the same colors.
A few bags of 10” worms and 1 oz wobble heads if you tell your guide on Picachos you want to fish for bigger fish.

Been down three times now, I learned the 10XD crankbait was the ticket for larger bass, overall. Lots of work, but getting a bunch over 6, up to 10+, was worth it. Bring a rope lure retriever, they aren't cheap and lots of trees and nets to contend with. Funny, you don't even feel the 2 pounders, the lure is so hard to retrieve. The guides can make a difference, and the better ones cost extra, but know their stuff.

Personally, I like the bigger baits, catch fewer, but bigger overall. Top mostly, or lipless, blades or deep cranks for me.

Michael I think I recognize that bait

Lunker Punker. It's the wooden one, wish they still made them in wood, plastic ones don't sound the same. Got one 7" and one 9" left... wood lures get worn out.
Anyone have an extra one hit me up, I'm in the market, my 7" is not long for this world!


Got this nice lunker at the dam, and then next cast one twice it's size nailed it and ran down into a tree before I could blink. Was sure it'd of been my first DD, Bummer.

Thank again!

Do you fish the Senko's wacky style or t-rigged?