Lake Baccarac Bass Fishing Report
Lake Baccarac
2009 Bass Fishing Reports
Lake Baccarac Lodge
Mexico Trophy Bass Fishing Trips
Lake Baccarac - Lake Bass Fishing Reports
Date:
January 1st, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits:
Senkos, 1/2 rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizzards
Date Fished:
Dec. 31st to
Jan. 1st
Comments: Lots
of small bass with no big largemouth biting the last two
days, excellent numbers of bass can be caught on
watermelon lizzards and watermelon worms, June bug
senkos and silver/blue 1/2 oz rattletraps. We did have
some topwater bass fishing the last two days.
Date:
November 1st, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits:
Swimbaits, spiinerbaits, crankbaits, buzzbaits LIZARDS
... no topwater yet
Date Fished:
October 25th - Nov. 1st
Comments: Oct 25th: Very
good numbers of 3 to 5 pound bass, the best numbers we
have seen. Some boats on Lake Baccarac catching over 125
bass for the day!! Caught mostly on Watermelon Lizzards
and 5" watermelon senkos rigged wacky. Oct 31st: Les
Dawson's boat reported catching 412 bass up to 7.3
pounds in three days on the water. Using crankbaits and
watermelon lizards. Nov 1st: Narlin reporting excellent
bass fishing results with very very good numbers of
largemouth being caught up the river.
Date:
October 1st, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits:
Swimbaits, spiinerbaits, crankbaits, buzzbaits
Date Fished:
September 27th - 30th
Comments: While fishing with
Sixto Figeroa, obviously, the numbers are back. Our boat
caught 62 bass between 1 1/2 to 4 lbs. on Thursday
afternoon. We caught 11 bass between 5 and 8 lbs. This
is quite exciting, considering we could not find this
size largemouth bass most of last season. The bigger
fish did not show up for any of us in three days at the
lodge, which is not typical for this time of year, but
we do except that as the water continues to rise, the
big bass will come out of the deep and be at more
catchable levels. I can say that fishing lighter line
with smaller presentations produced the better numbers.
Lake Baccarac is currently 83% full and rising, with
afternoon rains almost daily up in the mountains. We did
not see much in cloud cover around the lake. We will
have another bass fishing report in one week.
Lake Baccarac 2008/2009 Bass Fishing Season Summary
What a season it was at Lake Baccarac. Fishing in October started out with nothing but huge bass, literally with a 6 lb. average, sometimes not catching largemouth under 6 or 7 lbs. for the entire trip. Many personal bests. Read the report from Bobby Knight, from Gil Wright, from Greg Riggle during the beginning of October 2008. One guest came back testifying, this is the best trip I have ever been on fishing 20 years in Mexico, with nine bass over 11 lbs. and 32 fish over 10 lbs. and an estimated 100 black bass over 8 lbs. on his October 21st trip.
With the late October hurricane, the lake was flooded and fishing changed dramatically. Clients were still landing plenty of big fish, but numbers of fish caught were very low. With the high water and high population of shad, it was very hard at times to get the bass interested in biting artificial lures. There were many isolated stories about excellent numbers and excellent big fish, but after October, there were many challenging days on the water. Gil Wright, who is a monthly guest at the camp, had a great trip in November, catching 13 over 10 lbs. and 36 bass over 9 lbs. Go back and read Tom Redington's report from the first of December - unbeliveable big fish action.
Predicting the numbers would pick up at some point, we did not really see great action again until June, although all during the season, without a doubt, the average big fish this season was larger than the average big fish last season. We started the new year out January 1 with multiple 14 lb. bass. We continued to have sometimes unbelievable action and incredible numbers, but sometimes we had neither. All of this was contributed to by the overpopulation of shad and the high water all season.
In summary, by the time late May and June came around, Baccarac was repeating what it had done the year before. As a forecast for next season, we look for great fishing. We saw an incredible spawn in the spring of 2009. Those new fish will absolutely devour the excess shad in the lake.Baccarac, without a doubt, is and will remain the best bass lake in Mexico. The bass fishing season on Lake Baccarac is gearing up and it promises to be a great one. Call us today: Toll Free 888.479.BASS (2277)
Date: April 1st, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: spinnerbaits, pop' rs, 5 inch senkos, 4 inch motor oil colored senkos, black and blue 1 oz jigs, lizards, chrome zara spooks, Must bring 7" super flukes
Hottest Colors: white spinners, popin image baby bass, senkos gray/white...watermelon seed / red flake
Date Fished: March 31st - April 2nd
Comments: March 31st from Russ at the Lodge. Russ reporting some very good size bass today with 7 over 10 pounds with the group 16 at the Lodge. Suspending swimbaits and topwater working best for the big bass and lizards working best for the numbers. April 1st morning report NOW READ THIS! Our good friend Tommy Baxter broke the 10 pound mark with 13.10 ..And of course Gil Wright Lands another bass over 14 with a 14.5 along 3 more over 10....all on Big Flukes. April 1st afternoon report: Big BASS, big fish with many bass over 9 pounds coming on Big Flukes ( watermelon, baby bass ) recorded 7 more over 10 from the group at the lodge. April 2nd bass fishing report - more big bass with Tony Mandil catching 3 over 10 this morning and John Lange landing two over 10 this morning. Dr Monachek also getting his personal best after fishing years at El Salto..The Doc says Baccarac is the best in Bass. Tommy Baxter gets a 13.5 and harry Nichelson gets a 12.5 largemouth.
Date: March 26th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: spinnerbaits, pop' rs, 5 inch senkos, 4 inch motor oil colored senkos, black and blue 1 oz jigs, lizards, chrome zara spooks, Must bring 7" super flukes
Hottest Colors: white spinners, popin image baby bass, senkos gray/white...watermelon seed / red flake
Date Fished: March 23rd - March 25th
Comments: March 26th very low numbers this morning but some good size on swimbaits and Russdingers ...Pedro has been the top guide this week March 25th : from Russ_ Harry Scott group of 8 having great success with several over 10, 11 , 12 March 25th report Bill Q from Bills Bait and Tackle caught a 11.8 on a swimbait this morning Real good numbers and some real good size to report- a full report posted from the Eric Alinger group of 10 later today ..excellent report with boats catching from 40 to 100 fish a day and many personal best
Date: March 10th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: spinnerbaits, pop' rs, 5 inch senkos, 4 inch motor oil colored senkos, black and blue 1 oz jigs, lizards
Hottest Colors: white spinners, popin image baby bass, senkos gray/white...watermelon seed / red flake
Date Fished: March 5th - March 10th
Comments: March 5th to March 9th report: Russ reporting great big bass action over the weekend. The Lizard bite is the best with some really good Zara Spook action early morning. It seems that the best boats are catching upward of 80 bass per day with Gary Whitehead catching 110 fish the morning of the 8th.
This report just in from Jack Anslover who just returned from his bass fishing trip: " Better trip than last year at the same time" reports Jack. His big bass was 12.9 pounds. Mike Smith also caught an 11.8 and Jesse Smith 9.8 pound bass with boats in his group catching over 100 bass a day using 6 inch Pumpkin Lizards. Mike Smiths best day was 140 bass.
The morning of the 9th of March: WOW Mike Hinnekkamp group reported excellent fishing results the first morning on the water with 7 of the 12 in the group catching bass over 10 and breaking their personal best: 7 inch watermelon and pumpkin seed senkos worked best in the shallows. Bass fishing today at Lake Baccarac is outstanding according to all anglers at the lodge.
We now have a bigger plane operating out of El Paso direct to the Lodge at Lake Baccarac so on many of the flights we have 2 extra seats. We also have a couple of spots that we have discounted deep.
Date: Feb. 24th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: spinnerbaits, pop' rs, 5 inch senkos, 4 inch root beer colored senkos, black and blue 1 oz jigs
Hottest Colors: white spinners, popin image baby bass, senkos gray/white...watermelon seed, black / blue worms
Date Fished: Feb. 18th - Feb 24th
Comments: As good as bass fishing was last week the bite took a little break yesterday the 23rd with no bass over 10 pounds to report but we did have some very nice 8 and 9 pound fish caught in the flats in the ranch area. Pedro's boat produced the best numbers fishing a weightless 8 inch watermelon lizard. The weather has warmed up since the beginning of the month and has been near perfect bass fishing weather.
FEBRUARY 21ST - Gil Wright gets another big bass - 13.7 lbs. on a 1 oz. white spinner. Our guide Alfonzo, who we mentioned below on February 20, gets another three more over 10 lbs. with his guests. He has made his mark and now is without a doubt putting his clients on the best bass fishing spots.
FEBRUARY 20TH - The last three days - February 18 , 19 and 20 - on the lake have been fantastic. There have been 25 bass over 10 lbs. caught. The largest was brought in by Bob Gist of Oklahoma City - a 14.12. This fish beat his personal best by over three lbs. Ten minutes later, his buddy Gil Wright, also of Oklahoma City, landed a 12.5 bass off the same submerged island. Jimmy Manley of Marianna, Arkansas who had only been fishing a day and a half, has caught two over 12, two over 11 and four bass over 9. Where else but Lake Baccarac?
Denis Bootenhoff of Oklahoma City, had caught his personal best back at the first of January at Baccarac, now broke his personal best record again by catching a 12.12 this week. Peter Riley, who was at Baccarac filming Aaron's Outdoors TV show, caught an 11.15 and his comment was simple: "Baccarac is to bass what Churchill Downs is to horses." JUST THIS MORNING, Friday, Feb. 20: Peter Riley caught two 12 lb bass.
Pete Hollar caught two over 12 and two over 11 and while the fishing was slow for his trip this time, said "Baccarac is unreal."
Lodge guide Pauli, using a watermelon lizard with no weight, Texas Style, has racked up the numbers - numerous black bass over 8 lbs and his boat has been catching over 100 a day. Not to be outdone, lodge guide Alfonzo has caught more big largemouth bass than any other guide on the water in the last two weeks.
Date: Feb. 6th , 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: spinnerbaits, pop' rs, 5 inch senkos, 4 inch root beer colored senkos
Hottest Colors: white spinners, popin image baby bass, senkos gray/white...watermelon seed, black / blue worms
Date Fished: Jan. 28 - Feb 6th
Comments: FEBRUARY 6th UPDATE -RUSS JOHNSON AT THE LODGE Fishing has improved steadily, with many more numbers. The lost 11 lb bass showed up on the 4th and the 5th Big Lake "Baccarac" is shaking off the rust and the groups are starting to see several more trophy bass. The Harold Bade group landed two 11 LBERs and four 10 lb bass. Jim Day's first cast of his trip produced a 11.14. Lots of small fish on the banks right now with several big fish starting to show up but I still think it will be a while before the bigger bass up in mass.
It's no problem finding 50 to 70 bass a day right now in the shallows the bite is slower than last year but improving and we starting to see more trophies added to the trophy board at the Lodge. Smaller senkos are working much better than the bigger stuff right now. the Zara Spook bite is starting to pick up. I think the bigger bass are making an attempt to move shallow and when they do.......Baccarac will be BACK.
Date: Jan. 26th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: spinnerbaits, Pop'rs, 5 inch senkos, 4 inch root beer colored senkos
Hottest Colors: white spinners, popin image baby bass, senkos gray/white...watermelon seed
Date Fished: Jan. 21st to 26th
Comments: Report from Russ Johnson at the Lodge on Jan 21st - Cool morning but warming very quickly. We have had some cloud cover lasting until mid afternoon. Catching 30 bass a up to 9 pounds using mostly 5 inch watermelon senkos, they don't like the 7 inch senko this year. White 1/2 oz spinnerbaits producing fish on the bank but these bank fish don't have much size. The water level is starting to drop about 6 inches a day. We are locating many bass suspending in 100ft of water not relating to any structure at al. Topwater is very spotty.
Morning report From Jan 22nd - most boats catching 15 bass this morning Dan Peirson caught 2 bass over 10 pounds fishing the long points. Russ reports a little better bite on the points this morning. The afternoon of the 22nd sticking with the morning pattern did find fish once again Long points are holding good numbers of bass. Our Guides Pedro and Sixto have been finding the best bite. 4 inch Bass trix swimbaits are working very well along with Gary Yamamoto root beer senkos.
Jan. 23rd fishing report - The mornings continue to be cool until lunch. The fishing/catching the past two mornings has been much better early morning with senkos, flukes, small swimbaits. A few topwater bass but not many early morning. The afternoon bite has been very slow and no patterns seem to work as the fish move out in deeper water. We are seeing many bass in the 30 ft suspended in with the shad.
Morning Report Jan 26th - Fishing very spotty with one boat only catching 7 bass and the best boat catching 33 bass with 2 fish over 10 pounds. It is the same story with bass patterns not holding from day to day and many suspended bass in 100 ft of water. White 6 inch senkos and white super flukes produced the bigger bass this morning. Area near Carezo is holding some nice bass.
Date: Jan. 11th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: spinnerbaits, Pop'rs, 5 inch senkos
Hottest Colors: white spinners, popin image baby bass, senkos gray/white...watermelon seed
Date Fished: Jan. 6th to 11th
Comments: Early in the week the bass fishing was good as we had lots of cloud cover. The high blue skies have really slowed down the fishing. Mike Drain and his group did pull 4 bass over 10 from the Lake this afternoon the 10th of January. It does seem that the shad in the lake are just much more attractive than the lures. More reports will be coming soon. We are filming TV shows are both Huites and Baccarac with hook.TV .. this coming week
Date: Jan. 5th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: spinnerbaits, pop 'rs
Hottest Colors: white spinners, popin image
Date Fished: previous week
Comments: Four clients returning to the US from Lake Baccarac Lodge - Gil Wright, Denis Bootenhoff, Shane Ryal and his son - all caught their personal best bass! The bass numbers are still low but the ones caught are big! Gil Wright 13.6, Dennis Booterhoff 11.13 ..The bigger bass are in 25 ft water laying underneath the shad, You can run the banks right now with Watermelon lizards and catch the smaller bass in good numbers.....Chino, Sixto and Narlin have all been on the lake the last several days.
Date: Friday, Dec 19th, 2008
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: shad knockers, rattletraps and green lizards
Hottest Colors:
Date Fished: Dec 16th, 17th & 18th
Comments: Fishing remains very challenging with big fish being caught on swimbaits and bigger rattletraps. Currently the bass have plenty of shad to eat and do not seem excited about taking lures of any kind. The first good cold snap will kill a lot of the extra shad and the catch rates will turn back to normal .. Yesterday was very good day for numbers with Narlin Salazar boat catching more than 40 bass.
Dec 17th big fish but low numbers
Dec 18th report from Russ : Over all the numbers caught very low unless you run the banks with Watermelon lizards but better numbers of 10 plus pound bass caught using Shad Knockers 7" inch surface water temp is 76
Date: Friday Nov. 21st, 2008
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: swimbaits, Zara spooks, spinnerbaits , flukes
Hottest Colors: white 4" flukes
Date Fished: Nov. 17 to Nov 21
Comments: The lake is currently dropping six to seven inches overnight. Trent and Alek Loukas of the Andrus Brothers group have pinpointed the best pattern using swimbaits and Super spooks on the inside edges of the points, catching 20 bass over 7 pounds, eight bass over 9 and two bass over 11. Jud Hightower also from the same group from Amarillo caught an 11.14. From the Lodge ... The numbers of bass being caught is picking up according the Lodge ...A very productive pattern is Developing ...4 inch white flukes and 1/2 oz white spinnerbaits along with 3 and 4 inch weightless swimbaits.
Date: Nov. 17, 2008
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: swimbaits, Zara spooks, spinnerbaits
Date Fished: Nov. 17th
Comments: Bass fishing still remains tough for numbers. The lake is currently dropping six to seven inches overnight. Trent and Alek Loukas of the Andrus Brothers group have pinpointed the best pattern using swimbaits and Super spooks on the inside edges of the points, catching 20 bass over 7 pounds, eight over 9 and two bass over 11 pounds. Jud Hightower also from the same group from Amarillo caught an 11.14 largemouth.
Date: November 7th, 2008
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: Swimbaits, spinnerbaits, and some topwater, sluggos....Hot bait Chatter Baits
Date Fished: Nov 5th to the 7th
Comments: Sam Wade- Fishing mainly around the inlands and the submerged brush topwater fishing was good with some bass up to 11 pounds. Using 15 year old 9 inch sluggos bass fishing was excellent. The bite is very slow but the weightless sluggos produced a bass almost every 4th or 5th cast. Never have I caught so many bass over 6 pounds at one brush pile. I highly recommend Alonzo as a guide.
From Terry Hollan We still have lots of high water and we need the water level to drop about 5 ft and we need a weather change. The high water conditions are still causing a very slow bite!
Nov 5th results: Excellent according to Narlin Salazar ....With chatter baits producing the biggest bass with Morris Shaw catching 13.8 and 10.7 ......all boats landed huge bass but still very little topwater.
Nov 6th results: Big bass again and the numbers are getting better. The water is coming down off the brush and the activity has increased. Suspending Rattling Rogues produced the best numbers and the biggest bass with 7 fish over 10 pounds caught. Guide Alonzo was again the best guide on the water Tommy Baxter report We caught 27 fish from 6.8-10.14. One of the guys we flew with caught a 13.7
Date: October 31st, 2008
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: Topwater
Date Fished: Oct 15th to the 31st
Comments: The numbers of bass were down compared to past trips but the size of the bass caught at Lake Baccarac was incredible. In four days we caught well over 100 bass that weighed 7lbs or more. The topwater bite was outstanding. I have never experienced big bass exploding on a topwater bait the way they did this trip. I can't say enough about Manuel our guide, the food, the accommodations, the staff and Russ is always helpful and fun to talk to. Can't wait to go back to Baccarac in April. Very important The best bait today Oct 31st was storm 7 inch suspending swimbaits... Unreal results .... bring em if you got em
Date: October 19th, 2008
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: senkos. lizards, rattletraps
Date Fished: Oct 14th to the 18th
Comments: From Todd Small " Unreal. We caught 42 bass yesterday and not one of them weighed under 5 pounds and with our 5 biggest bass weighing 48.1 pounds" Comments from the Guides: The lake is currently at 110% pool level and the bass are scattered but good numbers are starting to be found in the back of the coves. Better numbers are being caught ever day.
Date: Wednesday October 15th 2008
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Date Fished: Oct 13th , 14th
Comments: Great fishing on Oct 12th ...read below The Fishing today on the 13th was very slow with the Lake rising almost 4 ft overnight//// 1/2 day report the 14th ....fishing has gotten much better from yesterday with rattletraps producing good numbers of nice fish...the lake is still getting lots of new water Report on the afternoon of the 14th the senko and lizard bite was good with some boats catching over 20 fish for the session The lake has almost stopped rising. The fish can be found but it will take some work...Looking for much more stable conditions with in a couple of days
Date: Sunday October 12th 2008
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: 1/2 oz. spinnerbaits, rattletraps, crankbaits__ TOPWATER
Date Fished: Oct 7th to 12th
Comments: Gary Whitehead arrived on Oct 7th with his friend Floyd Brown and landed 4 bass over 10 the first 6 casts. The fish are scattered but the size remains unreal. Our good friend Mr. Harada from Japan is having a great trip with 9 big bass over 10 pounds the first two days on the water. this just in from Kelly Dunn,,,,TOPWATER has started with Kelly Catching 20 fish on topwater caught the afternoon of the 10th and 10 of those bass weighing over 8 pounds Big Baccarac is the Best!! Gary Whitehead ....reports that Lake Baccarac is better than ever catching 20 bass over 8 pounds this afternoon with 2 bass over 10 pounds.
Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: 1/2 oz. spinnerbaits, rattletraps, crankbaits
Hottest Colors:
Date Fished: Sept. 26th - October 6th, 2008
Comments: This report covers the first two groups at Baccarac. Greg Riggle's group of 8 reported the best big bass fishing trip they have ever had in Mexico with daily catches of no fish under 6 lbs. Rick Glisseneorf - first day ever to bass fish caught an 11.9 and an 11.2 with his fishing partner, Dave Riggle, catching a 12.3. Photos are now posted at the lodge. Along with that, Greg himself caught a 12.9.Very high water with the lake being over 100% full has created the numbers of fish to be down but the best size we've seen. Coach Bobby Knight's group of 16 having the same results as the Riggle group. Jim Lewis, Mark Dalise, Bobby Knight - in the first 1/2 day of fishing all landed their personal best. Jim Lewis commenting it was the best size he'd ever seen.
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