October 29, 2007
LBJ – Marble Falls, TX

Lake LBJ hosted the ATX Bassmasters on October 14th. The morning started off overcast with light winds, but the winds quickly kicked up to 15-20mph range making it difficult to fish unprotected areas. The club had 25 members and guests on the water for a nice turn out (and payout!). The bass were in a cooperative mood as 17 of the anglers came to the scales with limits.

Adam Clark took enough time away from changing his new baby's diapers to kick some fish booty. Adam caught all his fish on a white and a black Spro frog. He was fishing sand bars in the middle of pockets that dropped from 1ft to 5ft on the sides. The fish were sitting in little ditches along the out side edges of the sand bars. Adam caught 13-15 fish, all keepers, and had 15 lbs in the box by 9am. He kept chunking looking for one more big fish. Adam finally moved across the lake to a similar spot at 1:00pm, and found another 5 pounder hanging out, that makes three (!) waiting for a frog. Adam's first place limit tipped the scales at 18.93 pounds! His big fish weighed in at 5.75 pounds, not quite enough to take big bass honors.

The ever consistent Rick Angrick, back from his summer work in the north country, caught a great limit as well, 14.39 pounds. Rick's first keeper of the day fell to a senko and also happened to be the big bass of the day at 6.76 pounds. Rick caught keepers on senkos and spinner baits around docks, seawalls and a ditch.

Ken Everett, Mark Hodgdon's guest, came in third with 11.88 pounds. We don't have Ken's pattern info, but Mark was overheard saying, He fished the same spots you guys fish, he just caught bigger fish. Ouch!!!

Dan Taylor took fourth place with a nice limit weighing 11.08 pounds. Dan caught fish early on a Zoom Horny Toad. Dan said, "Horny", heh-heh. He switched to a spinnerbait once the wind started blowing so hard that the buzz toad wasn't an effective presentation.

Jack Waldrop, Jr. weighed a 10.14 pound limit for fifth place. Jack caught his keepers flipping a heavy texas rigged craw worm in to shallow shore line grass. If you are in the neighborhood, you should try Waldrop's Bee Cave BBQ located off of Bee Caves Rd. a couple of miles west of 360 at River Hills Rd.

Ed Matthews took the final spot in the top six with a limit weighing 10.01 pounds. Ed caught his weigh fish on Senkos and jigs fished around rocks, blow downs, docks, milfoil and his best fish came off of a seawall in between docks.

The ATX Bassmasters will meet again at Stillhouse on November 4th out of River Bend park. Check-in starts at 5:45am and first cast is at 6:30am.