Lake Baccarac - Bass Fishing Reports - Lake Baccarac Lodge
Date:
March 10th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac,
Mexico
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: March 9th to March 10th
Comments: Rick Z just called in his Mexico bass trip summary report. His group of 4 caught 1025 bass during the trip with a 10.2 and 9.12 largemouth being the largest. Rick reported that many, many 6 to 7 pounders were caught as well. Topwater bass fishing is excellent!
Date:
March 9th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: March 5th to March 8th
Comments: Narlin reporting excellent bass fishing for numbers and quality bass up to 9 pounds over most of the lake with almost all 10 boats out last week. Money Minnow swimbaits producing bigger bass along with Lake Fork Swimbaits Size is getting better according the guides at Lake Baccarac. Reports are CRAZY!!! Sixto called in the report from the Lodge ...EXCELLENT and many big bass over 10 the last two days. Brain Knighten caught a 12.6 and Arnold Aker caught a 11.6 pound largemouth bass.
Date:
March 4th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: March 1st to March 4th
Comments: Morning Report March 4th from Lake Baccarac Lodge: Excellent report from the Lodge this morning with all boats catching over 70 bass and Jimmy Manley landing 13.9 pound bass using a 8 inch Watermelon Lizzard....All seven boats reporting EXCELLENT bass fishing.
From Hal Clifford: Obviously, the best bass trip in Mexico in over 30 years of fishing down there. The two big bass were 11-8 and 10-11. I caught the 10-11 largemouth the first evening with Gil and Miguel using a black and blue jig with a black and blue fleck senko as a trailer. The 11-8 was hooked on a medium sized white fat free shad. The numbers of bass caught each day was amazing-over 100 fish per boat ranging up to 9 pounds. Gil and Denis caught 112 bass on Baccarac one morning! The big largemouth bass are starting to move and the bite is going to be great in the next couple of weeks. I hope to see you again soon.
Date:
March 1st, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Feb. 25th to March 1st
Comments: We are still catching very good numbers at Lake Baccarac, with Gil Wright and Denis Bootenhoff of Oklahoma City catching 531 bass in four days of fishing, including six largemouth over 5 lbs., eight over 6 lbs., seven bass over 7 lbs., one over 8 lbs., one bass that weighed 10.11 and one that was 11.8 lbs. Darrell Long reported 75 black bass in the morning with a 10.12 lb. being the largest.
Date:
Feb. 24th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Lodge
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Feb. 24th
Comments: To our good friend, who for many years has been bass fishing with us in Mexico and always searching for trophy bass over 10 lbs., today Baccarac was very kind. Hal Clifford, using Carolina rigged Senkos, caught a 10.0, a 10.3 and an 11.0 bass. All eight of Gil Wright's group caught over 100 largemouth bass per day per boat, with many fish being 4, 5 and 6 lbs., fishing watermelon jigs, medium-running crankbaits, white with a green back. Gil Wright, one of our most accomplished anglers, predicts the big bass bite is about to begin.
Date:
Feb. 23rd, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Lodge
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Feb. 20th to 23rd
Comments: We are starting to see size along
with the excellent numbers of black bass. Vernon Gallo of Oklahoma found
honey holes holding excellent numbers of 6 to 8 lb. bass. Vinnie Della Pello
from New Jersey is catching numbers of good bass up to 10 lbs.
Date:
Feb. 19th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Feb. 10th to 19th
Comments: The numbers of bass are continuing
to be very strong for groups at the lodge. Dennis McCarty and Steve Wik from
California are having a great week so far. While fishing with guide Pedro,
Steve caught an 11.0 bass, an 11.3 and an 8.14 largemouth, along with
finding several nice fish in the 7 lb. range As far as baits, you need to
bring brown jigs, silver blue rattletraps, super flukes in white and
watermelon.
Date:
Feb. 9th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Feb. 7th to 9th
Comments: From Ed Danaile Joe Goldstein and I
just got back after our four-day trip to Lake Baccarac. Just like last year
we had a great time and caught a lot of fish. Unlike last year, no big ones.
We had a 7-8, five more over 6 pounds, and eight or ten more over 5. A party
of six was there as well, and they got an 8-3, and one over 7. Other than
being caught in a thunderstorm the first day the weather was great.
Date:
Feb. 7th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Feb. 5th & 6th
Comments: Good numbers of largemouth bass up
to 7 pounds caught up the river with senkos and medium running Bomber Fat
Free Shad. The bigger bass are once again harder to find the last two days
but overall excellent bass fishing action and water temp should start
warming now.
Date:
Feb. 4th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Lodge
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Feb. 2nd to Feb 4th
Comments: This just in from Jerry Kelley of
Dallas, TX. " I just wanted to share a little about my recent trip to your
lodge at Baccarac. It was one of my better trips to your lodge. We didn't
catch alot of really big fish, but we caught hundreds of bass in the 3 to
6lb range and missed several BIG ones and just one fish over 10lbs. I know
they will start showing up in the next few days. Our last day on the lake we
caught 275 bass between the two of us and the guide. I have fished all over
Mexico and never found a better place to fish or lodge, your lodge is 2nd to
NONE ! The staff is the best I've found anywhere. The food is excellent and
where else in the world can you know with any cast you stand a chance to
catch the biggest fish of your life or possibly the next world record. I
keep hearing from lots of people who are afraid to go to Mexico and I just
don't understand this. It might be dangerous in the border towns and I even
agree to this, BUT FOLKS , I assure you, THERE IS NO DANGER IN COMING TO
THIS LODGE. So I tell you this if you want to catch not only alot of fish
and have a chance at the biggest fish of your life then the only choice is
Lake Baccarac, and the ONLY choice for lodging is Lake Baccarac Lodge." FISH
ON !! Jerry Kelley
Feb 3rd - This just in from the lodge: Excellent numbers upriver with 1 to 4 lb. bass on 5 inch watermelon senkos and white medium running Bill Dance crank baits. The bigger fish are more shallow with the lodge reporting eight fish over 10 lbs. this week. The bigger bass were caught on pearl swim baits. Since late yesterday afternoon, huge rains have hit the area again. There is a forecast of rain for the next two days. We have more groups arriving today.
Date:
Feb. 1st, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Jan. 28th to Feb 1st
Comments: Lake Baccarac is heating up!
Excellent largemouth numbers up the river and Jerry Kelley did land a 10.5
lb. bass on a swimbait. Terry forecasts the big bass are almost here!!
Date:
January 24th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Lodge
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Jan. 23rd to 24th
Comments: Tough bass fishing Friday and
Saturday with very high winds and big rains forcing us off of the
lake. However, before the storm, fishing was excellent upriver with bass up
the river caught up to 6 lbs. and at the south end of the lake producing
largemouth up to 9 lbs. in deeper water. The bigger bass are moving up
slowly and still are a little out of reach.
Date:
January 14th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Jan. 10th to 14th
Comments: This week has not produced very many
big bass on Baccarac but the numbers of small bass in the first 20 ft of
water is outstanding.... small being 1 to 3 pounds...Eddie Carmon did catch
a 11.9 pound largemouth bass in 25 ft of water and was broke off within
minutes after catching that one ......We are marking lots of bigger fish in
45 ft of water. It also seems that most of the shad and talapia are also in
40 to 45 ft of water.
Date:
January 11th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac,
Mexico
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Jan. 8th to 10th
Comments: Jan 8 -
Leo Osburns group report excellent largemouth numbers and also reported a
10.8 and 9.8 bass caught on Carolina rigged watermelon Lizards. Six boats on
the water all doing very well with 150 bass being caught per boat.
Jan 10 - High-quality bass fishing - countless numbers of 1 to 3 lb. bass and Russ reports a fair number of fish over 8 and seven bass over 10 lbs. The big fish are coming deeper with Carolina rigged watermelon lizards and wacky style 5 inch watermelon senkos. Watermelon jigs along with black and blue 1 oz. jigs produced a good number of quality largemouth bass. It seems as though the big fish are moving shallow and we will start seeing more and more trophy bass caught in the next several weeks.
Date:
January 7th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizzards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
1oz Jigs very hot bait
Date Fished: Jan. 5th & 6th
Comments: Scott
Sinclair's group of four had a blow-out day yesterday, January 6. Although
the biggest largemouth bass was only an 8.13 (very respectable fish) Scott
reported up to 150 bass for his boat with so many 5 and 6 lb. fish, they
stopped counting. Little Miguel, who is now guiding for us, has turned out
to be an exceptional guide and had the best numbers of the day.
Mike Drain's group of eight flew in yesterday direct from Dallas, departed at 8:30 a.m. and were at the lodge at 11:30 a.m. Our private flights direct from Dallas offer the best convenience clients have ever had - short time to get there and luxury all the way. Mike's group fished 1/2 day yesterday and caught phenomenal numbers of bass. Narlin's comment, he feels that the big bass are just about ready to bite.
Date:
January 4th, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Lodge
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 oz rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizzards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
Silver / Blue
Date Fished: Jan. 2nd to Jan. 3rd
Comments: Red Hot
action but no Baccarac Big Bass. Good bass fishing action up the river and
in most parts of the lake. The rattletrap bite is excellent and the topwater
bite is good early. Water temp has now drop to 68 degrees and Lake Baccarac
is 82% full
Date:
January 2nd, 2010
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: 5 inch senkos, 1/2 rattletraps
silver/blue, Meduim Bomber crankbaits, worms, lizzards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
Silver / Blue
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:
December 28th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac
Lodge
Hottest Baits: Rico Popr's for topwater, 5 inch
Senkos, wacky style, watermelon lizards, RatlTraps silver / blue
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
Silver / Blue
Date Fished: Dec. 20th to 26th
Comments: The last
fews days have been excellent with topwater bass fishing early and late. 5
inch senkos in Watermelon along with meduim and small crankbaits. 4 inch
swimbaits and junebug worms are catching largemouth bass deeper on the main
lake points. Bass up to 10 pounds being caught according to Manuel Salazar.
Date:
December 19th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac
Lodge
Hottest Baits: Rico Popr's for topwater, 5 inch
Senkos, wacky style, watermelon lizards, RatlTraps silver / blue
Hottest Colors: Watermelon,
Silver / Blue
Date Fished: Dec. 10th to 19th
Comments: Well,
it's official - the big bass are showing up. Russ called in an excellent
report with the big black bass starting to hit 3/4 oz. and 1 oz. silver-blue
rattletraps. Brad Drake landed one over 11, as well as Norm Klayman
reporting 140 largemouth for his boat caught mostly on silver / chartreuse
rattletraps, and claimed to have lost the biggest bass he has ever seen.
John Taylor caught good sized bass, one over 9 lbs., using watermelon worms.
Russ Johnson states the fishing is only improving every day now. With some
top water, excellent action and big largemouth bass showing up now, we can't
wait to see what January brings.
Date:
December 10th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac
Lodge
Hottest Baits: Rico Popr's for topwater, 5 inch
Senkos, wacky style, watermelon lizards
Hottest Colors: Watermelon
Date Fished: Dec. 2nd to 9th
Comments: The Gil
Wright group of eight has fantastic action on Lake Baccarac - 1125 bass in
three days of fishing on the lake. Denis Bootenhoff said it was his second
best trip to Lake Baccarac, as far as numbers and size of largemouth bass.
With the extremely cool weather, low temperatures in the 40's, the water has
cooled off immensely which has created a topwater explosion! This is the
topwater action we have been waiting for since October on Baccarac. Russ Johnson says
that the average size black bass keeps getting bigger and BIGGER!
Date:
December 2nd, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac
Hottest Baits: Senkos wacky style, crankbaits, ratl
traps
Hottest Colors: Watermelon
Date Fished:
Comments: It's
getting to be that time of year. Mr. Big Bass, Gil Wright, will be at the
lodge this week. Sonny Talkington, the fabled resident at Baccarac, is
returning to the lodge next week. Both have a keen sense of where the big
largemouth bass are and when the big fish are going to bite. Gil's story is
remarkable. Last season alone he landed two bass over 14, two over 13 and to
date, 44 black bass over 10 pounds. Gil has methodically canvassed Lake
Baccarac and has marked many of the best spots on the GPS on his 22 foot
Skeeter he keeps at the lodge. Gil is quite confident that this week will
produce some giant fish. Looking at his results in the past, I am quite
confident he will have such luck. The water temperature is cooling and it
should be any day now that the fall top water bite will be in full swing.
Date:
November 30th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: Senkos wacky style, crankbaits, ratl
traps ... not much topwater yet
Hottest Colors: Watermelon
Date Fished: Nov 25th - Nov. 30th
Comments: We have
had an unusually high number of small bass caught at the lake. The key to
catching the big bass is, don't get frustrated with the small fish, use your
bigger presentations, 8 inch watermelon seed lizards, 6 inch swim baits.
Russ and Narlin had the best luck fishing the humps in the main lake. The
mornings are getting cool and the water temperature is dropping. I would not
be surprised if we see some topwater bass action shortly.
Date:
November 24th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: Senkos wacky style, crankbaits, ratl
traps ... not much topwater yet
Hottest Colors: Watermelon
Date Fished: Nov 16th - Nov. 24th
Comments: Tom
Reddington's group of 8 have come and gone for the week. Overall good bass
fishing action but the big fish did not show with the exception of one bass
over 9 and and couple of bass over 8. Good numbers of 1 to 3 pound bass
caught up the river and not very many mid size fish showing up with the
smaller largemouth bass but moving off a little deeper is producing the
better quality bass.
Quick update on the bass fishing at Baccarac: An extraordinarily high number of one to three 1/2 lb. bass in the lake, quite contrary to the numbers we were catching at this time last year. Yesterday, we did manage three black bass over 11 lbs. caught on seven inch swim baits. The big ones were caught mixed in with the small fish. No magic right now, just bass on the points in 15 feet of water. That is where the huge concentration of bass are located. We are having very little topwater but the crank bait bite was very good and the plastic bite is very good.
Date:
November 16th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: Senkos wacky style, crankbaits, ratl
traps ... not much topwater yet
Hottest Colors: Watermelon
Date Fished: Nov 13th - Nov. 15th
Comments: Bass
fishing remains very strong for numbers and also Tom Redington's group on
Nov. 15th landed four bass over 8 lbs. All big largemouth were caught on
Rapala 3/4 oz. rattletraps. Rancho Padre seems to be holding not only the
big bass but good numbers as well.
Date:
November 12th, 2009
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: Senkos wacky style, crankbaits ...
not much topwater yet
Hottest Colors: Watermelon
Date Fished: Nov 8th - Nov. 12th
Comments: This was
my sixth trip to Mexico, my second trip to Lake Baccarac, the first trip being
in 2005. This experience was the best I have ever had. Forget about the lodge
being beautiful and the food being great. The first two days on the lake,
fishing by myself with one of the local guides, I was amazed at the numbers of
bass that could be caught. I could have easily caught 100 largemouth on day one
and day two, although most were in the 1 to 3 1/2 lb. range. I did manage to eek
out a couple of 8 lb. bass. But it seemed like every point, you could have mined
for fish for hours. We fished mostly the first two days 6 inch watermelon
lizards, throwing close to the bank and working out to 14 feet of water. Very
few casts did not produce a bass.
The third day, however, was an unbelievable day on the water. I heard the prodding and joking around the camp from Narlin Salazar directed at his brother Manuel that the recent story being written about Manuel about him being anointed as the king of big bass in Mexico So I asked Manuel if he would be my fishing partner on day three. Lucky for me, he chose to forego his obligations to the lodge and insisted that his brother Narlin go as a guide and from that point forward, brotherly joking and ribbing never stopped. After trying some early topwater with no success and Manuel joking and telling his brother that it was time for a different guide, Manuel directed the boat towards a little cove up the river.
We made several casts and caught several fish and
before anybody realized it, we might have had 40 fish in the boat with the
biggest bass being 4 1/2 lbs. So with my limited Spanish, I requested that
Manuel find me a big fish. He responded back, I have already found the bass;
I'm just waiting for you to catch them! And I explained to him, well, so
far, they have only been small. Manuel said, okay, I will catch one big one
for you. He made a long cast over the point out in just a little bit deeper
water and I would not have believed this if I hadn't seen it with my own
eyes; he brings in a 9.8 lb. bass. From that point forward, I was amazed at
the number of big fish that Manuel caught almost on demand. That day's total
in our boat, myself fishing out of the front, Manuel fishing out of the back
and Narlin guiding us, we caught in excess of 160 fish - 14 bass over 8
lbs., three fish over 9 lbs. and two bass over 10 lbs. Manuel Salazar is the
king of big bass.
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