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Date of Report: 2006/10/22
Texas Fishing Report
Fishing Area: Lake Palestine
Mattern Guide Service
Hello Everybody,
Joshua 1:8 This book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Well you know the Bass are going through a temperture change and they respond to different baits as that happens. More to horizontal baits than vertical. Water temps. have dropped into the 60's at daylight warming up to the 70's durring the day.
Bass have been good up to almost 8 lbs. on crankbaits in smaller patterns colors vary according to water color. Clear waters near dam good colors have been baby bass and chartruse darker back in black or junebug.
Whites and Chartruses with dark backs up North if you can get into the channels up there.
The creek channels and boat docks have been the Biggest Bass producers. One Boat house produced a Bass up to almost 8lbs. She bit a Nochols creature bait rigged Texas fished in a brush pile under the boathouse.
We just took on another sponsor and His name is David Nichols with Nochols Lures. You have gotta try some of His baits they are killer.
Call him at 903-589-8100 and tell him Don Mattern Sr. with Mattern Guide Service sent you to him.
I am getting into alot of His new baits like the creature bait and the New Texas craw which will be producing a many tournament check for me I am sure. His spinnerbaits and jigs are unreal and hundreds of tournaments have been won by them.
When you are fishing the boat houses concentrate on boathouse in at least 5 feet of water, the ones near 10 or better are ideal and work those crankbaits alongside and between the boathouse also for the those bigger sacks. I switch those hooks out with a short shank triple grip in red on the front and a triple grip on the back. When you hook a bass over 3 lbs. to 8lbs. you really need them to boat the fish when she pulls so hard to get free.
The Nichols creature flipped into those bushes under docks in watermelon red has been hot. try spikeing the tails in chartruse dye to help if they seem offish that will help you catch a few more Bass.
I want to thank Phatom Tackle and Jeff Friend Custom Rods and now Nichols Lures for their sponsorship.
If you want to book a trip to Palestione or Sam Rayburn or Lake Nacodoges. And do not forget Lake fairfield after it gets colder just give me a call for booking at 903-478-2633 or 903-724-1203. Thanks and good fishing
Report Details
Fish Type: Largemouth Bass
Water Temperature: 68 to 76 deg F
Water Clarity: 6 inches
Water Depth: 5 to 10 ft
Bait and Tackle: Johnny morris and shimano reels on Jeff Friend Custom rods spooled with 15 lb. Seaguar Flurocarbon and P-Line
Charter and Angler Information
Report Submitted By: Capt. Don Mattern Sr.
Email Address: donmat@earthlink.net
Website: http://
Boat Name: Ranger
Marina or Inlet Name: The Villages Marina
Charter Biz Phone: 903-478-2633
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Pro Fishing Charter or Guide - Mattern Guide Service