What a day!

Feb 26 2017

Shayne Wallace

Fingerling

Member Since :
2016
Number of Posts :
98

Spent the night in Henderson on Friday night and looked at the weather report.  Slept in a lil bit and got to the lake about 7:30. Man a 32 degree drop in temperature changes everything!  Fished deep, fished shallow. Fished moving/chase baits, fished super slow Texas rigged. For the life of me I couldn't develop a pattern. Scattered would be the best I could come up with.  Fighting that lil aluminum boat in the wind was challenging. Fished hard through the major feeding period with a little success. Headed to Henderson to eat lunch and regroup.  Saw Rocky on the way back in and he assured us there were plenty of fish in that lake and there were some dang good ones in there too. We decided to fish the brush piles slow as the wind died in the afternoon the bite ratio increased. Picking up a fish or two on most of the brush piles and stick ups. Then just like the previous reports said lightning struck.  A Texas rigged battle bug hit the water and was engulfed. She wrapped the line around a limb and short lined herself.  I had to reach elbow deep into the brush pile and grab her while my partner cut the line.  My first DD with PWF. 25 1/8" and weighed 11.2 after calibrating the scales 10 times.  I couldn't be happier!   There are big fish in the lakes of that beautiful property.  I'll ask Seth to post the pic in this report tomorrow. Overall we harvested 24 fish and caught 46 total.  Again the chatterbait caught a few but the battle bug Texas rigged was the star.   

Posted By: Shayne Wallace

Feb 26 2017

Greg Davis

Fry

Member Since :
2010
Number of Posts :
15

We to hang in there and fight for your right for a DD Shayne! Let's see some pics of that Sow

Feb 27 2017

Seth Knochel

Admin

Member Since :
2014
Number of Posts :
435

What a hog!

Feb 28 2017

Mike Mehlmann

Fingerling

Member Since :
2012
Number of Posts :
74

Wow.  Congratulations Shayne.  I love Dogwood.  Hope to get a DD out of there one day….Have seen em, just not hooked any yet

Feb 28 2017

Shayne Wallace

Fingerling

Member Since :
2016
Number of Posts :
98

That was my second trip to Dogwood. My son and I have harvested roughly 70 fish from the big lake. It's just like the previous reports say… dink dink dink nice fish dink dink dink BOOM!  It's a beautiful property with the best land owner we could ever ask for. Rocky really went out of his way to get our trolling motor issue fixed and kept us fishing. I'm headed back March 10-11-12.  

Mar 01 2017

Chris Casner

Slot Fish

Member Since :
2012
Number of Posts :
232

Wow, beautiful fish - congrats on DD

Mar 06 2017

David Curtis

Fry

Member Since :
2005
Number of Posts :
47

very nice fish, congratulations!

Jun 07 2017

Keith Barfield

Fingerling

Member Since :
2015
Number of Posts :
92

Shayne, Congratulations on the DD & winning the 2017 Big Bass Contest with this monster!  I knew it would be hard to beat.  I agree, Dogwood is a beautiful property.  It was interesting listening to Rocky tell how he managed the construction with deep ridges & brush all over the lake. I can't wait to return.

Jun 07 2017

Tom Dillon

Toad

Member Since :
2014
Number of Posts :
516

Shayne, I too would like to offer my congratulations for winning this year's big bass contest. You had a lot of competition out there, and ended up beating us all with a monster sow! Way to go! I agree that Rocky has a great place for us to fish, and plan to go back.

Tom
 

Jun 07 2017

Shayne Wallace

Fingerling

Member Since :
2016
Number of Posts :
98

Thank you guys!   It was really fun competing with my little boy. Win or lose doesn't matter to me.  I'm trying to make life long memories. That's what's really important.  Take kids hunting and fishing and you won't have to hunt them down or fish them outta jail.  

Jun 07 2017

David Vaughan

Fry

Member Since :
2016
Number of Posts :
38

Congratulations that's that's definitely a blast  and what a beautiful place to do it in I'm encouraged