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Annual trip with my buddy who I introduced to Barrett 3 years ago. Got to the gate at 0400, on the water at 0500, first fish around 0600 (pedaled around a bit up into Pine). We stayed in Pine all day, not much traffic which was great. Got em on the jigs (duh), drop-shot (duh), some nice ones back in ...

The bummer was I lost my phone!
Fishing was great. My son in law (John) and I on our tubes. Pretty much all places we fished had fish 1 pic will show you a place. All structure, shallow to 10,15 ft of water. Most fish cam fishing parallel in the 10 to 15' of water. Baits 3" stick baits, a fluke but ...

What are you powering that with? And what battery ? Looks like a great time . Congrats

I’ve got a 55lb Newport with a Lithium 100ah battery. Battery powers us all day all around the lake with little drain. Motor was initially transom mounted and worked fine. I read that they work much better on ...

Have you considered the type of strong magnet they use for magnet fishing? Decent ones are only $30 on Amazon.

Good day everyone. I am usually a read only user. I thought I would just do a post regarding one of the boats. We were on the water about 4:30 a.m. with three guys over 200 lb. We headed down Hauser arm and about halfway down we realize we had about 8 in of water in the boat. We stopped bailed it ...

Another nice day at Barrett lake. Got there bright and early and met up with Chuck, Joe, Steve and Ismael. We all headed to various headings in the dark. Water was at 68F on the surface, air was 60F. There was a southern wind in the early morning, but it gave way to a mirror surface lake quickly ...

Lake Barrett Bass Fishing: Is This The BEST SEASON EVER?


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It was a cold one when I pull up yesturday was on the water while it was still dark which is very unusual ( I dont like fishing dark) meet with early release in the lot and then in beckys cove ..
Hit the shore across pigs lots with no takers on the lizard but the crank got a few dinks, once sun ...

I'm not a bass fishing expert like many of you. About all I know how to do well is drop-shot roboworms. From 230 to 730 Wednesday afternoon, I landed 43 bass, 20 of them not larger than a banana. I must have tied 15 palomar knots, often losing my hook and worm to an underwater tree or bush. And ...

I used 12lb floro and it held up just fine. Green pumpkin jigs with any matching craw trailer worked well for me.

My first trip to Barrett this season I was able to land almost 50 on the same jig. This last trip I lost 4 or 5 jigs. I usually buy the strike king bitsy bug that's around $3 retail so ...

They make jigs in all shapes and sizes. Some seem to do better in certain structure than others.

Some head shapes slide better through certain grass than others. If you're getting 'snot grass,' I don't think I've found anything that slides through that.

Football jig - Better for rocks, and deeper ...

I just drag jigs while keeping contact with the bait. Jigs are like rocks and I don't expect fish to hold them long so I want to know as soon as I'm bit.

If you're in a boat, you can usually get your jig back when you get stuck in rocks. You can often break vegetation with your line. You will lose ...

It was another great day of top water again, this week the plopper did get the bigger fish and also got a couple on the Rat!

Great report!

Wow, that’s probably why those long skinny worms works there, they look like that rattler 😬. Did that thing try to get near you or swam off the other way?

Wonder if a bass grabs one and does the snake turn and bite it?


You know when you have that sence of someone watching you ...

Thanks Steve. When it’s the right area any wake bait will work, last week I was able to get them, so the Rat made an appearance this week.

Lake Barrett Bass Fishing: Is This The BEST SEASON EVER?
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Too much fun! Looks like an emerging reaction bite now that the spawn is wrapping up?


It seemed like it at the time ...

Another great day on the water Sunday. Motoring out by 6, this time with a boat rental. We explored Pine Cove — haven’t been there for a while. Finally got some top water action going with my dad’s really old popper. I feel like I know what the action should be like now. Caught both large and small ...

saw you guys leave the dock . my bro and i did pretty well , but very few on the jigs for us. we found a little cove with bass chasing shad spawn and got them on underspins and tiny topwaters. glad you had a good time

That’s so cool that you caught fish on your dad’s old lure.