Conference wahoo::fishing

    sounds like someone got a big goose egg!!
    

    Bryan/College Station Tx is home of my Alma Mater Texas A&M.  The
    fishing can be great in Lake Somerville, Lake Conroe and yes even
    the Brazos River!  My brother has been fishing in north Texas for
    about three to four weeks now and has yet to set any records.  Caoght
    a few small one though in the 1 to 2 lb. class.
    
    One things for sure, if he's talked about the great Mexican (TexMex)
    food and beer, there wasn't much time for fishin....  That food
    will keep ya on shore most of the day!!!!!!
    
    
    
    Fightin' Texas Aggies Class of '77
    
    Bob Dean
    

    Sounds like something out of a bad movie! "HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER
    VACATION." In other words, nothing to hang on the wall but a new
    coyboy hat perhaps?
           
                                NIGHTCRAWLER~~~~~~~~~~         

    All reports and suggestions to the contary that we didn't catch
    any fish is completely WRONG......we killed them!!!!! Between the
    four of us that were fishing we caught about 35-40 bass. Nothing
    that would set a record, but good fish. The biggest was about 6+
    and the smallest (I will admit to catching it) was about 1/2 lb.
    My lure was almost as big as it was:^). The only problem we really
    had was the wind....it was blowing between 10 and 30 miles an hour
    most of the time. The mornings were the calmest, but come afternoon
    it was whitecaps on the lake. We also had a cold front come through
    and that made things harder.
    
    Most of the fishing was done on Gibbons Creek and Lake Summerville.
    For those of you that might be familar with the A1A site in Westboro
    Gibbons Creek is 2700 arces of the same thing. Nothing but trees/stumps
    as far as you can see. Bass heaven!! Lake Summerville is about 20,000
    arces, but mostly open water. We hit the points in about 8-10 feet
    of water and took most of the fish off the beds, or hanging around
    getting ready. All the females had large egg sacs and the males
    were all milting.
    
    All in all, one great time, just like TBDW said.......I'd go back
    in a flash. 
    
    Ranger Ron, (now with an even worse case of spring fever....:^)
    

    
    
    Oh yeh,  Did I forget to mention that 
    we caught a shitload of fish?
    Sorry.... yeh we did.
    
    ps  I think I caught the smallest bass  about 4"  in AGua creek
    
    

    Glad to hear it, my faith is restored...
    
    Don Mac

    
    
    
    Hey Coonass,
    
    I'll be in Fort Worth for the week of 1/8/90 on business.
    And this time I may have a spare 1/2 day or so.  Any tips
    on some local (within hour or so around Dallas/F.Worth)
    fishin holes that might be worth while this time of year.
    
    The Harbormaster
    
    

    If chew cud afford de time chew cud go east to Lake Fork, always de
    best fishin round. Its bout 100 mile east, costs $40/day for a boat an
    10 hp motor. Its chockablock wit dem 10-12+ pound hybrids.
    
    If dats too far, Lake Ray Hubbard is jes to the east ob town and Lake
    Lewisville is to de north 25 mile. dis time ob de year all de records
    are gettin broke. Dey fish deep an a lot at nite. Got no ice don chere
    tho, so leave dem flags op dere.
    
    Coonass

     Hey Coonass, I'll be in Victoria, Texas around March 9 for a while.
    I'll be visiting my sister and "little" nephews (6'4", 6' 7" and
    6' 9") for 10 days or so. How far is Victoria from your part of
    Loosiana ? I'd love to kill two birds with one stone, but the first
    time I see an alligator gar, I'm a memory!!
    
     Don't know if this will work out, but I figger it's worth askin'.
    
    --The Skoal Bandit

    Well Bandito, Victoria is jes a little town wit lots of money, jes
    southlike ob Hewtin, Texas. Its only bout 20 mile NEto Hewtin, an 250
    mile N to Shreveport, an 25 mile east frum there to de camp. If chew wanted,
    chew cud com op an fly outta either Shreveport or Dallas(200 mile
    west). Remember its interstates an chew kin go 70-75 wit no problems(we
    don hab none ob dem henwiringmentalist don chere). If I go, I kin dribe
    chew bak to Dallas.
    
    Jes let me know an we kin plan it,
    
    Coonass

    I just found this note and thought I wou drop e few words.
    I just came to this part of the country, (JULY) and as a matter of
    fact I came from Bryan/College Station.
    Yes I'm an Aggie.
    Fightin Texas Aggie Class of 89'.
    I fished Gibbons a few times with good and bad luc  The last time 
    was the summer before I came here when a buddy ofmine and myself
    pulled his 12' Jon boat out of the back of the truck and dropped it
    in the lake and within 30 mins my friend pulled out his 9 pounder.
    What an experience.  Of course being the environmentalist that he is,
    he politely put it back for the next guy.
    I've been keeping track of whats going on back home and found out th
    If you want to catch a record maker, you should go to Lake Fork.
    24 of the top 50 record bass caught in Texas came from there.
    The top ten range from 16.0 to 17.10 with six of these coming from 
    Fork.  
    This info was acurate as of the first week of March this year.
    Thats all for now.
    
    Barry
    

    Yo Barry,
    
    Didja hear ob de time de rats got so bad in de Core ob Cadets Froshman
    barraks dat dey decided to declare war on dem.
    
    Well after tree weeks dere were 1200 enemy dead, 2100 enemy wounded, 12
    cadet deserters, an 23 war brides!!!
    
    Coonass

     Good to hear from a Texan. My sister and three little (6'5", 6'7" and
    6'9") all live in Victoria, Texas and 2 of the boys went to A&M. By the
    way, I root for the Aggies, but they may have the dumbest football
    coach (but some of the BEST talent) anywhere.
     In fact, I'm sittin' here dippin' a little Skoal "Long Cut" and
    lookin' at a "Fishing Texas" hat my sister sent me. Nice to have you on
    board.
    
    --The Skoal Bandit

    What are YA'LL wait'n on?
    
    I thought for sure that I would get a few more Aggie jokes.
    Thats a pretty good one, Coonass.
    I love a good Aggie joke.
    
    Hey Bandit!...
    I know what you mean.  The Aggie football program seems to be slipping
    a little since RC Slocam came aboard.  He's a good man but doesn't seem 
    to be able to pull it together like good ole Jackie Sherril.
    To bad he got caught doing what the others do so well.
    
    And remember,
    Tis better to have failed at Texas A&M, than to have graduated from tu.
    
    Long Cuts my favorite too.
    
    Tex
     
    

    I thought I would let you in on some info in an article from a
    newspaper.  
    Typically March is the best month for Texas fish over 13 pounds and
    there have been several already from Fork this year.  A man from Plano
    has caught the largest this year at 16 lb 12 ounces.  Thats good enough
    to rank number 6 in the record books.
    
    Another interesting note on how healthy the bass are in Lake Fork.
    Lake Fork has a slot limit, 15 to 21 inches.  Several fishermen have
    reported to have had to release fish under the 21 inch limit that
    weighed over 9 pounds.  Most people were skeptical until a 21&1/8-inch
    fish weighed in at a hefty 10-2.  This must have looked like a
    basketball.
    
    I'll tell what happens after I get back from my trip in May.
    
    See ya,
    
    Tex
    

    
    RUMOR............................
    
    Some well known New Hampshire S/W type went ALL THE WAY to LAKE FORK
    and was SKUNKED Miserable!
    
    
    Who is this? and how did I find out?
    
    TBDW
    

S-O-M-E-O-N-E down there in Dallas has a B-I-G  M-O-U-T-H!

Yeah, I fished Lake Ray Roberts on Saturday (3-4 bass, none over 2 lbs) and
Lake Fork on Sunday.  Weather was miserably H-O-T ... in the mid-90's and
humid.  From what we could tell, no one was cathcing much of anything.  The
game wardens checked us out on Saturday on Ray Roberts and said that very
few bass were being caught.

I don't suppose that B-I-G  M-O-U-T-H  from Dallas bothered to tell you about
the 12-15 lb. fish I DID catch, huh?  We were out on Lake Lewisville on 
Wednesday night and planning to do a little crappie fishing and then some
nighttime sailing.  No crappies, but while vertical jigging in about 20-25'
of water, I hooked into something ... BIG!  The drag started screaming as I 
prayed the 8# test line would hold up.  Finally...after about 5-7 minutes of
battling the brute in the dark, I managed to get it to the surface.  It was 
the biggest CATFISH I ever saw.  Coonass tried to grab it with pliers (oops...
now you know who the Dallas B-I-G  M-O-U-T-H is!) but the line then parted.  
Length was about 30-32", so we guessed it to be about 12-15#.

Hey...TBDW...how come the only time you enter a note is to give someone a
bad time??  I'll remember that next February after the Centrum!!

-HSJ-

    I was at the same meeting as TBDW and the aforementioned person from
    Texas DID mention your big catfish.
    
    Sounds like a good job in bringing it up on such light tackle.
    
    
    David.,
    

    Mais yeah, I met dat mon, David. He soun lak a gud fishermon, but he
    talk kinda fonny!!
    
    An I din know de backside dock wizzy onderstand Cajun Franch!! Jo, I
    neber tole him in Anglish, but somhow he onderstood!
    
    Dat line chew ketched dat cat on wuz 6 pound test!! Gud job!! An he wuz
    in de 10-15 pound size!! Too bad he broked de line, cuz we get plenty
    fillets outta him!
    
    De water don gettin cold don chere...some gone don to 80 degree. De
    fishin gonna pik op in three or two weeks now for bout a month.
    
    Hey, wot chew folks op dere tink?? Mebbe de invite don wore off?? Letme
    know if ennybody comin don chere an chew kin get in on som gud fishin.
    De invite is toujours... Mebbe de turnemint winner cud com don an hab a
    fishinoff!
    
    Coonass

    RE: .18
    
    	I am interested in catching catfish in Texas.  I read .18 and would
    like more info on location, best seasons, packages, etc.
    
    thanx,
    
    Keith

    Keith,
    
    Whot part are chew lookin at?? Most any rivver is gud...Sabine, Rio
    Grande, Trinity. Get a Thursday copy ob de Dallas Morning News. De list
    all de fishin spots by type of fishin. If chew cant git one, let me
    know an I'll send chew wun. De problem wit de Rio Grande is dem fool
    peoples keeps runnin acrost it all de time an messes op de fishin!!
    
    Coonass

    Just got back from 2 days at Lake Fork. Skunked, skunked, skunked!
    Actually, one of us caught 3, with one being a keeper at 6+ lbs. This
    is a very big lake, and I suppose we just weren't in the right place at
    the right time, we even had a guide on Sunday, still for naught. Water
    was up to 60 degrees in the coves and small inlets, 55 or so in the
    larger areas. The weather was cold, rainy, and windy Saturday, warm,
    sunny, and windy Sunday. We saw a few bass nesting in the coves, but
    they were disinterested. I suspect that the changing weather had them a
    little spooked, and maybe they had moved back out to the points and
    deeper water. Unfortunately, the guy driving the boat didn't think so
    and we never tried anywhere but the coves. We fished Little Caney
    Creek, and White Oak Branch North (6 pounder from White Oak, this is
    the White Oak Branch just North of the 515 bridge since there are 2
    White Oak Branches on the map. 2 of the 3 fish were caught on silver
    broken-backed long A's, one on white and orange spinner bait. This was
    my first trip to Fork and I will testify that it is really something
    else, stickups everywher you turn and the fish were truly beautiful and
    healthy looking. I live in Central Texas, Georgetown to be exact, just
    outside of Austin. I fish Georgetown, Travis, and Fayette County fairly
    regularly. I don't know if anyone else in here is from this part of the
    country or fishes this part of the country, but if you are there let me
    know.
    Poor Karl, the tackle vendor's friend
    

    So I'm NOT the only one from Texas reading thin Notes conference!!!
    I live in Houston and joined DEC August of last year.  I do most of
    my fishing in Conroe and Livingston, but I just bought a 350 Ranger in
    Novemeber so I am looking forward to trying Fayette County, Gibbons
    Creek, and all the other reputed "hot bass lakes" I can get to.
    
    Have you fished Fayette County much this year?  I've heard a few people
    say that it's "pretty much died off....nothin' like it used to be".