Falcon was being stingy allowing the big girls to bite. All in all the
fishing was good from everybody talking about catching fish up shallow.
Too bad most of then were buck bass cruising around. Bruce White managed
to land one over 10 lbs to capture First Place with 18.80 and Big Bass
10.26 (pictured left). Nice job Bruce!!! Second place went to new comer to the region
Thomas Ferro 16.78 and Third went to Dennis Lala with 11.92 (winners pictured right).
We had 26 competitors that participated in this event and all 26 arrived
back at the boat ramp safe and sound. Everybody knew there was a front
coming in. Just expected it later in the day. Needless to say that
didn’t happen. Mother Nature had different plans and threw everybody a
curve ball and decided to arrive at 10:30. Good thing about that was
fishing got better when the front came in.
Amistad hosted the first event of South Texas TBN and once again she
held on to her reputation of being a very tough lake to fish in January.
Weights were not what was to be expected due to the previous cold front.
With seventeen anglers fishing the event weights were low with a winning
bag of five fish for 8.11. Those honors were rewarded to Dan Rodriguez
who also landed Big Bass with a 2.16 monster and Second Place went to Larry
Nors with four fish weighing in at 6.92 (Pictured left – click to enlarge).
Fish were caught from shallow to deep depending on what your were
tossing at them. Dan had caught is winning stringer on an A-rig in the
backs of creeks. Second place was won by using a Drop Shot and short
light weight C-rig in 25 to 40 feet along creek channels. Also some fish
caught on jerk baits and square bills.
See complete results and Year to Date standings on the South Region Tournament page.