Reservation Number : 28207
Property Name : Backus Ranch
Reservation Date : 06/11/2021 All Day -
Total Fish/Sizes : Sixteen total up to five pounds
Lures Used : TX rig, Chatter, cranks,

We earned our stripes today as opposed to the first time I went to Baccus.  We couldn’t get any strikes on top water frogs and Pop-Rs.  When I picked up the first fish I noticed it had that nice orange glow to it that’s uncharacteristic of bass from NE Texas.  They looked exactly like the bass from Sugar Lake which fed almost exclusively on crawfish.  Then I remembered that something like 1,000 pounds of crawfish were put into the lake last year and we switched over to craw style baits and squarenbill cranks  We didn’t have the ideal color with us but nevertheless, started catching some fish.  This is one of the few lakes where you can maintain close to a four pound average and sure enough, we did.  From having just three culls in the livewell, you should see all of the red crawdad parts that were regurgitated.  No wonder these thinks were orange colored.  The fish were well over 100% relative weight for being post spawn.  I got eggs out of two of the females but for the most part they were done spawning and fry could be seen in the shallows   We didn’t have the success we did the previous trip but we had a great day on the water.  Thanks to those that made it possible!

Jackson