As promised, My Fayette County Reservoir trip w/ pics

[Scott E.]

That's right Alton Jones! (more on that later). Went to Austin (from Big Bear Lake) for a week to visit my Son/his wife/my 1 yr old grandchild and had a blast! Now for the fishin'...

Headed out to fish with my buddy Mark Fransen (he guides on Fayette County Reservoir 200 days a year). He had a trip Sunday afternoon so he sent his brother in law to take me out for an hour or so before dark to catch a few buzzbait fish. Nice guy that Chuck! Long story short, we KILLED IT! For 3 days, it was Solid. Early and Late it was Buzzbaits, Frogs and the Jitterfish (all of it was sick and wrong topwater fishing, especially day 2 on the frog bite that lasted till after 10 a.m.). They absolutely CLUBBED the swimbait!!! Had at least 10 or 12 on it and missed about a half dozen and dumped 2 (including a fricken donkey, which I'm still p o'd at myself for not taking my time with, I pulled the hooks) The rest of the mid day fishing was C-Rig, Scrounger (the big boys ate the C#@) outa it in 8 to 10 feet), Flutterspoon (Really effective on big fish in deep water). Better than 40 to over 60 fish a day and our 5 fish bags were from 24 to almost 30 lbs for the three days. A couple pushin 7lbs, more than a handful of 6's, lotsa 5's, more than alot of 4's, and 3's were like garbage.

Day 2, (tuesday) Marks buddy George was fishin' with Alton Jones on Alton's BASS rig. (Mr. Jones loves Fayette and until Falcon came along, I believe it was his favorite Tx lake to fish, although with all that's goin' on at Falcon, that may have changed). We idled over and I asked Mr. Jones if I could snap a photo and he said "come on my boat and we'll get one of us together. (he even got on his trolling motor to reposition the boat for a better sun/photo angle). We hung out for a bit and chatted about "them BIG CALIFORNIA SWIMBAITS" and Diamond Valley and such. He is a true gentleman!

Enjoy the photo's and if you ever get a chance to fish Fayette County, you won't be disappointed. Also a big thanks to Mark for some true southern hospitality! (and Chuck, I suppose for an old S.O.B. you're ok too) and to Bob, it was a pleasure! Also to Gina Salazar, Academy Sporting Goods, Customer Service Wizard extrordinaire, for the help with the DFI oil! Saved our butts!!! Click the following link to my photo bucket as files are too big to load directly on this page http://s1136.photobucket.com/albums/n48 ... ir%202010/ Sorry about the photo quality, my disc drive is acting up so these are photos of the hard copies. Scott

p.s. here's a link to Alton's blog on his day on the lake that day http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/bass ... Jones_2010

[moorecat]

Fayette is definately an awesome lake, I live about 2 hours away from it, but love to fish it.

This may sound crazy to some of yall but during the summer the surface temperature of the lake exceeds 100 degrees most days but you can still go out and catch a 25lb limit.

[Scott E.]

Went into the discharge to the bouy and it was 98 dg. You could feel the heat!