Greg convinced me to go out to Cooper Lake and well folks the lake is all that Steve Pebley and TXDPW said it would be.

We arrived were fishing by 7:45am as we spied the literally hundreds of humps, ledges, and points that the lake holds but the sand bass and hybrids were not interested in our baits and the under water trees took at least 7 Potlikers to their watery graves.

We also tried the flats with no avail, however, we found this long ridge in 15 feet of water and decided to troll a Sand Johnny Quasimodo (Sand J, those curved red hooks are killing me) and a chart, Storm crank-bait to locate fish and in a matter of minutes we were on fish. We picked up our rigs and stared cranking and slabbing with Potlicker Turtles and RJR Beasts. The fish were in an area roughly the size of a football field and when they would die down we would fire up the boat and look for them again and we were on fish for about three hours, we kept 50 and we caught right at 150 sand bass plus the hybrids.

We boated about 20-25 undersized hybrids, some right at legal length. Nonetheless the sand bass were huge, I mean really big with maybe 20% of the keepers going 15-16 inches.

Folks I cannot say enough about this lake we even caught two big Gou's and my son caught a nice blue on a red Potlicker. The facilities were great and at any given time their were no more than 6 boats on the lake. So the 2 hour drive is well worth it...

Photos do not do justice on sandie size, I will post better photos tomorrow when I fillet them. And before I forget if any of you folks go out there and launch at Sulphur Branch be sure and stop by and visit Karen's Bait Shop right before you get tot he park entrance She has healthy minnows and other sundry goods.

Don!!!! We were going to call you but I was afraid Monda would get mad if I called at 4:30am. And a million thanks to Papa Peck for the encouraging advice.



Sandie double on a Storm crankbait.

Way to go ! But i gotta say my pride is hurting ,this is my home lake and I cant have a day like that lol.

It was our first trip out, I figure we just got lucky.

Sounds like a GREAT way to get introduced to a new lake.

Nice!!

I plan on going to Cooper next Saturday, had a good day on Ray Bob this past Saturday.

Way to go guys! I hate to be one of those "I told ya so" kinda guys BUT....

Nice day especially for the first time on the lake.

You are right Big Mack, if all goes well over the next few days we are going to look at some property in the area.

On the lighterside... Folks I admire your patronage on the Potlicker slabs, however, all sales are handled through Finny Tribe...

Sounds like a great day....congrats P-19_

Here is an interesting article yesterday on Cooper from the DMN by mr. Ray Sasser. Sounds like TPWD is pleading for more fishermen to hit the lake When was the last we hear that?

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