i struggled to catch fish all weekend but donny rocked emma big time. i had plenty of oppurtunities sat. i would get a run, lift the rod and nothing would be there. finaly after donny sugested i change out my hooks i hooked up and caught a couple carp. donny caught fish after fish after fish after fish after fish. it was truly an awesome weekend for him, and he is still there. scott townson caught the second biggest buff we have seen come out of emma today in the heat of the day.it weighed in at 50lb 2oz. although i struggled, i had a blast! donny, thanks for the invite. PS: the red shirt mojo is apparantly gone and i cant wait for winter. i'll post a few pics in a little while.

here's some pics:

me with a 15+ common



my wife colleen with a 9lb common



donny with a 37+ buff



donny with a 39lb buff


and scott with his 50lb 2oz monster buff! great fish scott!

congrats on the catches. I on the other hand blanked @ Town Lake in my alloted 4 hours to fish

Kevin,

That fish your wife is holding must really like her, the way those fins are sticking up on top.

Seriously, I wish I could get all of my carp to have their fins like that during the pictures. I think it looks better. I've never figured out a way to make them do it. Anyone else ever figured it out?

Kevin

shake the fish a bit. Great fish guys!

Incredible fish everyone! Those buffalo are gorgeous! Glad to see some big buffs finally returning to that area.

Scott, congrats on the PB, that thing's immense!

THat looks like a kick-A trip right there!

Thoes buffs are huge!

Danget I want my drivers lisense so I can go see emma!

AWESOME FISH GUYS!

Looks like me will be seeing some place changes on the TXFishes contest!

GG

Fishing was not fast during the 20 or so hours I was there, only 4 fish caught by me but they 2 of the 4 were really good ones.

I had 1 catfish, 1 carp at 14-10 the 50-2 buff and a 13-2 drum. New PB Buff and freshwater drum for me.

That's the 2nd freshwater drum I've caught on maiz. The park guys loved the drum. In converstaions with them yesterday morning, we were taklking to them about the fishing they do down there. They told Kevin that they fished for drum. Kevin asked them what the biggest drum they've had out of there and they told us about 6 lbs. You should have seen their eyes light up when we called them back down there to get that 13 lb drum. LOL

Wow! Incredible!

Awesome fish!

How does one fish specifically for drum? I didn't think they were common enough to be targeted with any success.

Nice job there Kevin & his group!

If you were at City Park on Saturday, you may have seen or met some of these guys. Good people. Local bass fishers.
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Brett.....

Mussels, mussels, mussels, nearer rocks is better. They'll, obviously, take shad or shad pattern artificials.

Deeper water is often key as well.

Many of the dams in our area hold some great drum, and some very big fish are out there.

Top Class fellas

Great session guys!