FishKiller-I caught it during Spring Break and I think it was early 90's. Picture is below. You can see the 155 bridge in the background and know that dock is in Saline Bay. Caught it on a BIG live shad at night. My granddad knew the local game warden and called him to come down to see the big fish. He recommended we get it weighed as it may be a new record. We took it to the Flat Creek Marina and it was 14 1/2lbs. I didn't know what the lake record was at the time (I just knew it was my biggest fish) and the lady at Flat Creek said it was a few ounces shy. I got a call about a month later from the Tyler newspaper and they wanted to do a special article on the hybrid fishing on Palestine. They took my story and put this picture in the article. Sorry about the quality of the pic-didn't have iphones back then!

were there any birds working up there ? I have only seen birds working on day so far this fall.

Lake record is 14.77 ,
One of my neighbors says he caught one that weighed 16 off his dock with a crawfish. He told me he ate it,
I did not have the heart to tell him he ate the lake record.

Mo

Great video. I've been the last 4 days. My old school deadsticking is not as effective as it once was. Those sunshine hybrids seem to be particular. Not familiar with dimiki rig. Sure would like to see what you used. We ffs, thump, and deadstick. Some of the ones that come looking will literally run from it if moved at the wrong time.i have down scaled to 3.5" grub and it's better. It seems the days of a 1oz head and 5" fluke or sassy shads or done for deadsticking cor me. Think the palmetto were dumber, I could catch them.

FishKiller-I caught it during Spring Break and I think it was early 90's. Picture is below. You can see the 155 bridge in the background and know that dock is in Saline Bay. Caught it on a BIG live shad at night. My granddad knew the local game warden and called him to come down to see the big fish. He recommended we get it weighed as it may be a new record. We took it to the Flat Creek Marina and it was 14 1/2lbs. I didn't know what the lake record was at the time (I just knew it was my biggest fish) and the lady at Flat Creek said it was a few ounces shy. I got a call about a month later from the Tyler newspaper and they wanted to do a special article on the hybrid fishing on Palestine. They took my story and put this picture in the article. Sorry about the quality of the pic-didn't have iphones back then!