Denny Brauer & Rory Pasley – MO    Denny & Rory had a good day of fishing with 40 bass including an 8.13 lber and a 9.9 lb beauty.  They fished 1-10 ft deep with watermelon red frogs, and chrome/blue red eye shad.  Guide Sanchez

Robert Richardson & Marty Stawizyski – GA & MO    Robert & Marty also had 40 bass today with a 7 lber as their largest.  They fished in 1-2 ft of water with 5″ shad flukes.  Guide Hector

Johnny & Cliff Azevedo – CA     Johnny and Cliff fished white spinner baits in 1-5 ft of water.  They landed only 13 bass but that total included a 7 lber and two 8 lbers.  Guide Jorge

Other anglers fished 18+ ft with 10″ green-blue worms: green pumpkin flukes & Senkos in 4-15 ft of water: tilapia flukes in 1-3 ft of water, and 8″ green pumpkin lizards in 5-10 ft of water.  

76 degrees at 5am warming to 88 at 11:30am.  Partly cloudy morning but sunny in the afternoon.

Marty Stawizyski & Rory Pasley – MO    Marty & Rory fished Carolina rigged 8″ green pumpkin lizards in 20+ ft of water.  They landed two 7 lbers, an 8 lber and a nice 9 lber.  They had 30 bass for the day.  Guide Sanchez

Randall Roberts & Eric Ruholl – IL   Fishing white Pop R’s in 1-5 ft of water, Randall & Eric caught an 8.8 lb. beauty.  They had 14 bass for the day.  Guide Hector

Jim Warrn & Keith Whitten – MO & IL   Jim & Keith had 33 bass for the day including one over 7 lbs.  They fished Carolina rigged green pumpkin lizards in 12-14 ft of water.  Guide Juan

Other anglers fished both Carolina rigged & Texas rigged 8″ green pumpkin lizards in 20+ ft of water; Carolina rigged watermelon red 8″ lizards in 10-15 ft of water, and  white swim baits in 10-15 ft of water.

80 degrees at 5:30am warming to 88 at 12:30pm.  Numbers seem to be improving as the anglers locate the fish.  Anglers are having to fish slower and deeper as the water is still stained from earlier rains and the surface temperature of the water is still warm causing the fish to be deeper.

Randall Roberts & David Biggs – IL     The first fishing morning of the season saw Randall & David landing 36 bass including a nice 8.3 lber.  They fished Texas rigged watermelon red lizards in 7-8 ft. of water.   Guide Sanchez

Mike Sur & Eric Ruholl – IL    Mike & Eric had the largest bass of the day with an 8 1/2 pound beauty.  They fished in 10-15 ft of water with swim shad.  They had 20 bass for the day.  Guide Hector

Marty Stawizyski & Jim Warren – MO    Marty & Jim landed the most fish of the day with a total of 45.  Their largest fish weighed in at 7 lbs.  They fished 8″ green pumpkin lizards with chartruese tails in 15-20 ft of water.  Guide J. Manuel

Other anglers fished Carolina rigged 8″ pumpkin lizards in 15-20 ft of water, and with watermelon lizards in 10-15 ft of water.

This was the first day of fishing of the season at Camp El Salto.  The lake is at 98% full which sure beats the 68% that we started with last October.  It was 76 degrees at 4:30 am warming to 86 degrees at noon.

Butch Franson & David Grohosky – CA    Butch & David fished citrus shad crank baits in 12 ft of water.  They had 50 bass including a nice 8 lber.   Guide Enrique

Tom Craig & Mike Furnstahl – NC & MN     Fishing 10-15 ft deep with silver/blue Rat-L-Traps, Tom & Mike landed 76 bass for the day.   Guide Oscar

Gary Weissenberger & Amy Groff – NC & CA    Gary & Amy fished watermelon lizards in 14 ft of water.  They had a total of 46 bass.   Guide Victor

78 degrees at 5am warming to 98 at 1pm.  Clear in the morning but overcast in the afternoon.

Tom Craig & Mike Furnstahl – NC & MN    Tom & Craig fished in 20-25 ft of water with citrus shad crank baits.  They had 92 bass with a 7 lber as their largest.   Guide Enrique

Butch Franson & David Grohosky – CA    Butch & David fished green & white spinner baits and caught 44 bass.  Guide Oscar

Gary Weissenberger & Amy Groff – NC & CA    Gary & Amy fished watermelon red lizards in 15 ft of water.  They had 35 bass for the day.   Guide Victor

72 degrees at 5 am warming to 90 at 1pm.  Cloudy morning, overcast at noon and cloudy again in the evening.

David Grohosky & Butch Franson – CA     David & Butch had 85 bass for the day.  They fished green lizards in 15 ft of water.   Guide Victor

Tom Craig & Mike Furnstahl – NC & MN     Tom & Mike fished chartreuse Zara Spooks in 2 ft of water.  They had 76 bass for the day.   Guide Oscar

Gary Weissenberger & Amy Groff – NC & CA     Gary & Amy fished green spinner baits in 12 ft of water and landed 40 bass for the day.  Their largest weighed 7.0 lbs.  Guide Enrique

78 degrees at 5am warming to 92 at 1pm.  A little drizzle of rain in the morning and cloudy all day.

Lake level – 24%

Tom Craig & Mike Furnstahl – NC & MN    Tom & Mike fished Sexy Shad Super Spooks  and had 96 bass for the day including  8 and 9 lbers.  Guide Oscar

Gary Weissenberger & Amy Groff – NC & CA   Fishing white spinner baits in 3 ft of water, Gary & Amy landed 76 bass.  Their largest weighed 7 lbs.   Guide Victor

David Grohosky & Butch Franson – CA    David & Butch had 69 bass for the day.  They fished chartreuse crank baits in 10 ft of water.  Guide Enrique

78 degrees at 5am warming to 98 at 1pm.  Cloudy in the morning, a little bit of sunshine in the afternoon and clouding back up in the evening.

Jay Guillory – TX    Jay fished brown/blue jigs in 20 ft of water and caught 122 bass for the day.  His largest weighed in at 9.0 lbs.  Guide Jorge

78 degrees at 5am warming to 98 at 1pm.  Clear skies all day.

Larry & Matt Beard – TX   Larry & Matt fished had 143 bass including a nece 9.4 lber and a 10.4 lb trophy.  They fished citrus crankbaits in 10 ft of water, and watermelon brush hogs in 15 ft of water.  Guide Armando, Sr.

Jay Guillory – TX    Jay only fished 1/2 day and had 16 bass that he caught on blue/black jigs in 10 ft of water.  Guide Jorge

77 at 5am warming to 98 at 1pm.  Clear in the morning with wind late in the afternoon.

Larry * Matt Beard – TX     Larry and Matt fished black/blue jigs and watermelon brush hogs in 10 ft of water.  They had 160 bass for the day including an 8.8 lb beauty.   Guide Armando, Sr.

76 at 5am warming to 98 at 1pm.  Clear morning but hot and humid in the afternoon.