DIY Bass Lake....

[BrandonA]

Where did yall get yall bass from?

[Ride_Klein]

Where did yall get yall bass from?

He got them from an old friend of a friend and I'm not sure who it was. I'll ask this weekend.

[Ride_Klein]

Good weekend out there with lots of fish caught and culled.

Biggest was 5lb 2 this weekend.

Took a bunch of pics of the new lake site as well

[Ride_Klein]

Kids ripping lips

[Pedernal]

Awesome place you have built there... Congrats to you folks and keep the pics coming...

[Ride_Klein]

Pictures of progress on the new lake. This one is going to be real fun to fish in 5 years.


Nothing says progress like yellow iron


Long ridge line being built to create a man made tributary creek


Looking down one of the ridges and man made tributary


look from the **** when things were about half way through


Little better detail without the panoramic


rock moving and fish house building crew. He Found a bunch of old sidewalk that was being removed and we were able to have it delivered to the lake site so we could stage it.


Precision fish house building. These are in depths from 5 feet to 20 feet.


Some idea of the topo and placement of the rock. There was a lot more to move.


Rock houses, laydowns on the dam, humps, and ridges.

Was able to get a bunch more pictures. I'll post them as I get them resized.

[BitBackShot]

Is this your profession? Man, really cool stuff to get to work on, hobby or career.

[Sticks&Strings]

This is really great. Been following this thread for a long time, and one day I'll get to try my luck at building one of these. Keep the pics and do's and don'ts, coming.

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[Stolle]

DTRB! You live the good life. Missed this thread some how, but I'm all caught up now. Y'all make work look fun.

[Booner Sooner]

Looks like a great setup.

[Agdog]

Just about quit my job to go help y’all stack rock! That looks like a blast

[Ride_Klein]

Is this your profession? Man, really cool stuff to get to work on, hobby or career.

Wish it was. Wife calls it an addiction, we call it a passion. Just been lucky to find friends that enjoy the same things all of us here do.

This is really great. Been following this thread for a long time, and one day I'll get to try my luck at building one of these. Keep the pics and do's and don'ts, coming.

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Appreciate it. By no means an expert here. One thing we learned is take more pictures when you're building it. GPS tag that stuff you really don't want to forget.

DTRB! You live the good life. Missed this thread some how, but I'm all caught up now. Y'all make work look fun.

Just modeling my life after the Stolle Brothers. Thanks Matt

Looks like a great setup.

Appreciate it.

Just about quit my job to go help y’all stack rock! That looks like a blast

Pay comes in the form of cold cans. If you pop enough cold ones while "working" you can almost make minimum wage. Almost.

[Ride_Klein]

Appreciate everyone following along. Fun to share. Here are a few more pics from the work over the last 8 months. Duck season got in our way for a big portion of that, but tried to play catch up this spring.

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Moving rock.... moving rock... moving rock. If you're a large mouth bass or a bluegill we have a subdivision for you

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Big stump on top of a mound with rock lining the edges down. Top of the stump should be 4' under water and 16'ish to the bottom. There's 3 of these all making a little triangle in this area.

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Rock stacking crew and their vehicles. You can see the other two humps that form the triangle in the background. Goal here was to be able to be able to target a bunch of area from one boat. With different wind/sun situations in mind.

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Looking up on of the man made tributaries.

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Looking down the same area. Just to the left of where this ends is the triangle of humps. About 10' to the bottom from to the top of the ridge from where the pic was taken.

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The humps and ridges just to the left of the outlet.

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Looking across the deep end of the lake to more laydowns and ridges.

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Deep water rocks. This is a little bit of an experiment no telling if it will work

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Ridge dropping down into the deep water flat and the deep water rock line.

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Rock lean-to after rock lean-to. This one is at the toe of the dam.

[3DW5]

So awesome!!!! Keep it up.

[Ride_Klein]

How is this pond doing? Mainly curious about the crawfish.


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Sorry I missed this specific question. Crawfish seem to be doing well. Most fish caught and cleaned this spring had crawfish in their belly, and a crawdad crank bait has been money