Falcon Practice, well sort of.....

So the 'storied' Falcon Reservoir has been kicking me where it counts for the first three days.  Went out the first day and the second stop yielded 4 bass from a 100 yard stretch of bushes.  I thought well this may be easy.  I did not get another hit the rest of the day but did do alot of looking around.  Next day I looked shallow, seeing 65-68 degree water led me to believe there may be a move to the shallows.  Shallow water access is not the easiest thing to find here.  Falcon is 25 or so feet high, the highest it has been in many years or so I am told so everything has grown up.  Tree tops you see may and usually are in 14 to 20 ft of water and that makes it hard to even get to shallow water but a little 4X4ing will get you there.  Once I found some hard bottom I saw fry, now Im not sure what make or model they were but decent numbers of fry maybe a month or so old, bass??  Not sure.  I did see some cruising fish and caught two in a foot or two of water on a Senko, 7", it is considered finesse here lol.

Today I went to Falcon state park and launched, proceeded across the lake and on my first move I burned a coil.  JOY.  I limped back to the ramp and am awaiting some sort of fix.  Zapata does not exactly offer many full service shops so wish me luck in finding a replacement within 100 miles

Oh I have to add the fish I have caught are in the 4-6 pound class, maybe a 7 and those are not going to get it done in this Stren event, a consistent limit of 25+ with a kicker or two added in will be needed to make the top ten and I have scratched one limit in TWO days.  The 'storied' Falcon Reservoir is treating me like the noob that I am on this lake.