Jul 18 2024
Currie Covington
Fry
Reservation Number : 40484
Property Name : Flying J
Reservation Date : 07/17/2024 All Day -
Total Fish/Sizes : 54 in 4 hours time fishing 9am-1pm
Lures Used : War Eagle spinner baits, Keitech, Zakos, Senkos,
1st time experiencing Flying J on inaugural run with new Pond King Sport and Tacoma!
We arrived by 8:30 and we're able to fish 9-1pm, catching 54 fish and culling 48.
Very easy access off Preston to location. Lake was down likely 3 feet or so. This made for a steep delivery into shallow water and we got stuck in the soft mud while deploying my new boat. Thank you God for having the nice man working that day. He helped us out with his tractor after our fishing getting us unstuck.
We arrived in less than an hour from my home in Prosper and fished 9-1pm.
Cloudy cover all day and a slight temperature drop had them feeding from our very 1st cast. It was a day of CATCHING for sure as we harvested 48 Bass throwing 6 back and one great fish and proved these fish are healthy and growing.
When reflecting back on harvesting this many fish, I truly feel like we are making a difference. Think about the 48 small Bass that are now not competing with those larger fish for food. Yes, it has to make a difference.
Water clarity was fantastic and you could see several feet down in clear water.
I personally feel this lake is great and will continue to produce quality outings, but we need to harvest the smaller ones out. Tons of fish in this lake. We doubled up 3X!!!
We then chopped back through the salad to get back to the ramp. We definitely helped with creating a boat trail through the very thick vegetation. We had to use both trolling motors full blast and a paddle clearing vegetation to get back in.
I would not recommend anyone going alone here as vegetation is very thick near boat ramp going out and coming in. The vegetation should die down in September.
We arrived by 8:30 and were chopping through the salad to get to open water and fished 9-1pm.
I’m hopeful the boat ramp will be improved and vegetation down next time as I definitely want to go back to this lake.
This is the 3rd closet property for me and one that I want to frequent and really learn!
Last, I want you to know these are some of the best looking bass I have seen. We didn't see any abnormalities on any of the 54 fish caught!
Jul 18 2024
Scott Quigley
Admin
Member Since :
2014
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426
Great report Currie, thanks so much for posting the details and pics! Culling 48 will absolutely make a difference but still more work to do…hopefully others can use the trail you blazed to open water but if not, hopefully we get more trips in the fall as the vegetation falls back. This lake has amazing potential if we can get on the culling!