Sam Rayburn question

[mtnranger]

Guys, I'm going down to fish Sam Rayburn in April and its a new lake for me, can anyone recommend areas or baits that would be good for that time?

[David Withee]

I was down there around April 19th last year. I went down there for the McDonald's big bass splash. Is that what your headed down there for by chance?

Anyway one day I really slammed them in about the 6 to 9 FT. range right on a the edge of a weedline. I was a throwing a green back, orange belly crank bait just ticking off the grass. I pulled about 15 in 40 minutes. We caught allot on a shakeyhead on the bushes coming off of points also. We stayed mainly on the upper end of the western arm. Just be carefull with the wind. Took us about 3.5 hours to run the 13 miles or so back to the ramp with the wind blowing. The slowest but biggest fish pattern we had was isolated bushes with a green pumpkin finesse jig with a green pumpkin trailer. This was not a fast pattern by any means but remember if you see any isolated bushes to take the time to flip them.

Hope this helps. So of the places the grass was real short and kinda hard to find. It is not growing to good that early but it is there. Let us know how you do.

[mtnranger]

Thanks for that info David sounds like a pattern and plan to start with and yes I am heading down for the McDonald's Splash. I've heard its quite the circus and will be crowded but the payout sounds good, did you have any luck last year?