Ram Trucks Mega Bass on Lake Fork draws 1,802 anglers




Robert Stover of Clifton, TX topped a record field of 1802 anglers with a 10.65 lb bass at the the 5th annual RAM Mega Bass on Lake Fork. He took home a new RAM truck and a new Skeeter-Yamaha-Minn Kota-Humminbird rig valued over $60,000. The tournament is touted as the richest one day hourly big bass tournament in the world. Every hour a Dodge Ram pickup truck is awarded to the lucky angler that weighs in the largest bass of the hour. Second through 15th places received cash awards. At the end of the day the person who caught the biggest bass of the day additionally receives a brand new Skeeter ZX190 bass boat. The first angler to win a truck was Joe Bray of Marble Falls, TX. He bass weighed 9 lbs, 24 ozs. "I came up with a friend," said Bray. "We went to a creek channel that had a straight line of stumps. We decided to slide in behind there, and within about 30 minutes I got the bite." He was using a Carolina rigged watermelon red lizard with a chartreuse tail. "I had 65 lb. test braid line on, and she tried to break it off!" Bray's catch was looking good to hold up as big bass of the day. Robert Stover of Clifton, TX who was fishing with his son Robert Jr. pulled in to an area they had never fished before to make their last casts. "We had fished a lot of different areas throughout the day, and had caught three or four in the slot." They were using a Texas rigged Lake Fork Tackle Hyper Worm. "We were looking for a spot that the wind was blowing into, and there weren't many boats in." At 2:15 Robert flipped his bait to just the right tree and a monster bass latched on. They quickly made their way to the weigh in and with only five minutes left on the clock. His bass weighed 10.65 lbs to win the hour, the truck and the Skeeter ZX190 bass boat package. "Dad was just trying to hold the tears back. He was screaming and yelling," Robert Jr recalled. "It was great! This has been a long time coming for my dad. He's been dreaming about it for a long time. I'm just glad I was here to witness it with him!"




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Fishing Report from TPWD (May 7)

GOOD. Water Stained; 73 degrees; 0.73 feet below pool. Good early morning bass bite around shad spawn areas and with topwater frogs over grass. Midday to mid afternoon work flukes and yum dingers around grass good1-3 feet. New wave of spawners pulling up this week. Carolina rigs fair in 5-10 feet of water on secondary points. Report by Marc Mitchell, Lake Fork Guide Service. Black bass are post spawn and the top water bite is on! Frog patterns are working in the shallow vegetation. The crappie are moving shallow, small clousers are producing well. Large bream have moved shallow, wooly buggers are producing good fish. Channel catfish are cruising 2-4 feet biting clousers. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie, Fly Fish Fork Guide Service. Crappie fishing is settling into the post spawn and summer patterns we should see for the next few months. We are seeing incredible numbers of small black crappie right now loading up on brush piles, lay downs, bridges and docks. The larger black crappie are a little hard to find but you can find some nice groups of them or pick a few out of the smaller fish. The bigger white crappie are beginning to load on the summer pattern trees. We have a tremendous amount of fry covering up a lot of those trees and making it very hard to see those bigger white crappie on forward facing sonar or for them to see your bait. You can find fish in 10-30 feet of water and some may only be 2 feet under the surface or right on the bottom. Minnows and any colored jigs are both producing extremely well. Report by Jacky Wiggins, Jacky Wiggins Guide Service.

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