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Hey Barrett crew,

Me and my sons (8 & 10) were on the water by about 5:30am Wednesday and fished until 7pm. Long, hot day with a big surprise waiting for us at the dock. We were lucky enough to meet up with JWall and his lovely wife Cynthia in the middle of the Pine arm, and while we did see plenty ...

Also, I wanted to share this cool little rod holder I made for super cheap. I was sick of rods lying all over the boat so put this together in 20 minutes for $20 at Home Depot... worked great!
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My buddy mrpatrick will be bummed I didn't post his fish, so here's a pic of that whopper ...

You need to get a digital scale so we get to know how much the next beast weighs.

Those are some tanks right there ... nice work
Also super cool idea on the fishing rod holder

No way, I didn't realize you were float tube guy and father of Reaper Boy lol. I'm at Barrett quite a bit but never post reports, I'll introduce myself next time I see you. Your younger son is a crazy good fisherman, cool to see he caught a monster! Your lady saved one of my setups that blew into ...

You need to get a digital scale so we get to know how much the next beast weighs.


We had one last season but I returned it after a day because it seemed harsh on the fish (whoops, sorry Amazon -- I don't even think I washed it before sending it back). I may need to find something else if Theo ...

No way, I didn't realize you were float tube guy and father of Reaper Boy lol. I'm at Barrett quite a bit but never post reports, I'll introduce myself next time I see you. Your younger son is a crazy good fisherman, cool to see he caught a monster! Your lady saved one of my setups that blew into ...

What a wonderful memory for you and your family. Congratulations on an amazing catch and amazing day with your kids.

Neuroshima wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2024 1:12 pm Weren't you venting a month ago that you weren't having much luck at Barrett?

The great advice is paying off!

yes

Heard its greener then the hulk so i would throw big loud lures

as " the legend of Theo" grows so does my opinion of that fish, it's girth is tremendous. At least get a retractable cloth measuring tape(sewing) and measure length and girth. It could be 12lb

The water is pretty turbid. A couple weeks ago you could easily see pretty far in the water. Now it's the last couple feet. Yesterday Chuck and I had some success with loud topwater lures. I'd agree with Pond_prowler_619 on big loud lures.

And yes they are still draining the water.

Got on the water @4:30 with Dave and Steve, and it was already 70 degrees! The water is down @10 feet since two weeks ago, headed to Becky’s. For the first 2-3 hours I got skunked, which was really puzzling, Dave wasn’t doing great either. The lower water must’ve drove the bass deeper and the green ...

Glad you made it in seeing as you stuck it out till noon. I left at 10 and the wind was sending waves over my bow. Managed 14 on my usual, and only 2 drinks on popper.

I had to leave at 0900 and it was already hot and the wind was starting. Fishing is tough, with water level, turbidity ( mostly algae bloom, I think) and the wind seems to be coming up earlier.

Thanks to Chuck finding a pattern with the crawlers, I got a few also. The popper, wakebait and walking ...

Got to Barrett 4:40 got a boat,headed down hauser didn’t get first fish until 830.worked way to back fishing picked up,when got back of hauser mostly dinks .quit fishing at at 12, the wind was rolling and white caps on lake.glad I didn’t have kayak.bill and I caught about 40 bass I got 1 crappie and ...

I would Leave finesse stuff at home. For plastics or jigs, based on the green water and a pretty good day yesterday, I would go black and blue or dark like Junebug standard brush hog. My standard green pumpkin worked, but darker was better. another guy said he liked to fish his heavier jig deeper ...

Way to go figuring out that bite. Too bad about the strong winds and heat.

Well, it started out kind of rough, but it ended up being a good day. At zero dark thirty, there was a howling wind from the south south east. I tried my usual places but the wind was so strong that I would fly by anything perpendicular and into anything parallel before a proper cast was complete ...