2005 Fishing Reports
 
Date: Fri Dec 30 08:06:05 2005
Name: Lake Huites Lodge
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Hottest Baits: lizards, swimbaits and crankbaits
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Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...Some of the best action Huites has seen in years! Bill Prendergast reported catching 80 consecutive bass in the reforma. The Rio Fuerte River, although stained, is holding the better quality bass in the 3 1/2 to 7 1/2 lb. range. Swimbaits are catching the larger fish, while 6 inch lizards Texas rigged are catching all of the numbers desired.
Date: Sat Dec 3 08:43:09 2005
Name: Lake Huites Lodge
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Hottest Baits: 1/2 oz. rattletraps, 6 inch lizards
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Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...Great action at Huites with several fish up to 9.9 lbs. The population of bass at Lake Huites is outstanding. On any given day, you can catch 250 fish per boat - a lot of small ones but we are catching fish in the 9 lb. range, close to 10, with a couple of fish this month nearing the 11 lb. mark. The water level is good at Huites, although parts of the lake seem to be stained from the recent rains in the Chihuahua mountains. Russ Johnson reports that the quality of fish at Huites is the best he has seen in three years.
Date: Fri Nov 4 12:36:51 2005
Name: Gary LeBouef
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Wrote...Cheryl, Thanks a bunch. We had a blast. Great accommodations and food, great scenery, awesome staff, and unbelievable fishing. Hope our group didn’t get barred from ever coming back. We did a lot of cutting up but your staff took to us well. We caught over 200 per boat on the very first day. We estimate that we caught over 2000 fish between the 6 of us in the 4 days we fished. The biggest of the group was 9 pounds 4 oz caught by David Pemberton on a crank bait. I caught the second biggest, 8 pounds, on a zara spook in the last hour of the last day. See attached pictures. David Duplantis caught (2) 6.5 pounders and Steve Harvill caught (1) 6.5 pounder. David Duplantis and I caught at least (10) 5 pounders, (50) 4 pounders, and the rest 1 to 3 pounders. David and I fished mainly top water and pastic worms/ lizards, but caught well on black spinner baits and a few on baby bass crankbaits. I went thru all 6 packs of Senkos on the first day before lunch. The pearl flukes were a second best with the green lizard a close second. Actually, I caught well on every color I threw and even had a strike on a bare hook and weight. Mike Harvill had a contest with his guide Florenzio. Mike made a double worm rig up and used his Purple Firetail and Florenzio’s favorite worm. The Purple Firetail worm was the winner. What an unforgettable trip. David and I are already are talking about coming back in a year or two. Do you do a combo Huites/Baccarac trip? David and I would also like to commend our guide Moses for a job well done. Thanks again Gary LeBouef
Date: Mon Oct 31 09:27:26 2005
Name: Al Blodgett
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Wrote...Cheryl, Great food, beautiful scenery, an OUTSTANDING guide (Manuel Vega), and wonderful people at the lodge made for a very memorable trip. John, Elton and myself caught alot of fish, so many that our sides were bruised from setting the hook. We had a few fish that felt enormous, but when they got close to the boat you would find two fish attached to your lure. Made for interesting fishing. We had six fish break 20 lb test line, those are the big ones that got away. You can tell anyone heading down in the near future that once they think they have enough watermelon lizards, go buy more because they don't want to run out!
Date: Mon Oct 31 09:06:49 2005
Name: Steve Schmidt
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Wrote...Hi Terry, just wanted to let you know we all had a great time at Lake Huites. I was part of the group with Bob Benes, my brother and I caught allot of fish, one afternoon in the span of about two hours we had to have caught over 100! Never seen anything like it, can't wait to come back. Hey I am sending you a picture of Mitch (one of the guys in our group) he caught the largest fish of the trip, was wondering if you could maybe post it in your photo page, the guys would get a kick out of that. You have one of my brother right now on your site (Doug Schmidt)he had a great time as well. The food was excellent as were the guides, maybe next time Baccarac!
Date: Mon Oct 17 08:58:40 2005
Name: Rod Phillips
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Home Page: West Texas Sportsman
Hottest Baits: plastics and crankbaits
Hottest Colors: junebug, watermelon seed and baby bass crankbaits
Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...This report just in from Rod Phillips, host of the TV show, West Texas Sportsman: Action is unbeliveable! The numbers of fish that can be caught cannot be duplicated anywhere in Mexico. Everywhere we stopped, we experienced swarms of frenzied bass. We did manage to land a 9 pounder on a Bill Dance fishing around the trees near canyon #3. We had so many multiple hookups - our best was on one rattletrap, a 6 and an 8 pounder on the same lure. We caught over 18 fish over 6 lb. while filming for one and a half days. As soon as the lizard bit turned off, the crank bite turned on and you can alternate this pattern all day long. Lake Huites Lodge and its service cannot be matched. See you on the water!
Date: Tue Oct 4 09:08:25 2005
Name: Lake Huites Lodge
Email: fishing@mexicanadventures.com
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Hottest Baits: small, medium and large crankbaits, 6 inch worms and lizards, flukes and senko's
Hottest Colors: junebug worms, natural shad color crankbaits, fire tiger crankbaits, pearl flukes
Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...Russ Johnson just called in with a great report. Average boat is catching over 100 fish a day and reports that fishing is fantastic all over the lake. Medium-running crankbaits and large crankbaits today were the hottest lures on the lake. Colors such as fire tiger and baby bass, along with pearl colored flukes worked excellent. Skip Fischer from Kentucky reported seeing a bass near the boat that broke off that was as big as the fish over our fireplace, which is a replica of an 18 1/2 lb. The other two boats fishing reported the same results with 150 fish per day per boat, several fish pushing the 8 lb. mark. Numbers of fish 4 to 6 lbs. and countless fish between 2 and 4 lbs., with trophies breaking their lines in the canyons and near the railroad tracks.
Date: Fri Sep 30 12:55:45 2005
Name: Rick, Skip Fischer
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Hottest Baits: flukes, buzzbaits, Pop'rs
Hottest Colors: silver, pearl, chartreuse
Date / Time Fished: this morning
Wrote...Opening morning at Lake Huites Lodge has come and gone. Rick and Skip Fischer boated 102 fish this morning, fishing near the dam using pearl flukes, buzzbaits with chartreuse tails. The biggest fish was 8 1/2 lbs. with numerous quality fish over 5 lbs. and countless fish between 3 and 5 lbs. Russ Johnson fished near the railroad tracks and also had the same luck, but was throwing small and medium BIll Dance crankbaits. Huites is off to a great start. The lake is full and the water is clear and the fish are biting.
Date: Thu Sep 22 13:00:01 2005
Name: Russ Johnson
Email: fishing@mexicanadventures.com
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Hottest Baits: medium crankbaits, 6 inch Zoom worms
Hottest Colors: baby bass and junebug
Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...Lake Huites is 100% full. The bass activity is the best we have seen at the lake since it being dammed. It could be possible that there are just too many fish in the lake. There was no place we stopped where we did not catch thirty to forty bass. The canyons were exceptionally productive, with fish up to 8 lbs. The lake is clear with the exception of the waters west of Las Cruces. Narlin has been working with the guides and has made the best guides on the lake even better. He will challenge his pool of guides against any of the other guides at any of the other lodges. Lake Huites Lodge is the only lodge on the lake that is offerring regular charter service into El Fuerte, eliminating your travel time and maximizing your fishing time. We will see you at the lodge very soon!
Date: Thu Aug 25 07:58:29 2005
Name: Ernie Walker
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Hottest Baits: small crankbaits
Hottest Colors: baby bass and fire tiger
Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...Lake Huites is within just a few feet of being full again. The water today is crystal clear, and the numbers of bass caught are excellent! We caught over 100 bass between 1 1/2 and 6 lbs. the firsts two hours we fished. Recently, the lake has been stocked with Florida bass again, trying to improve the bloodline. In the canyons and in the Chimney Pass River, fish can be caught at almost every point.
Date: Sun Jul 31 07:35:12 2005
Name: Russ Johnson
Email: fishing@mexicanadventures.com
Home Page: www.lakehuiteslodge.com
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Wrote...Lake Huites is in great shape for this time of year. The lake is currently at 70% capacity and the lower lakes Hidalgo and Dominguez at almost near full pool. Huites is producing excellent catches. Russ reports that there may be too many bass in the lake and laughed. He said almost every place they stopped in the last few days, they have caught fish ranging from 1 to 5 lbs. in 15 feet of water and the schooling bass can be seen chasing shad on almost every point. Zoom 6 inch junebug and red shad worms have worked the best this past week. Also Little George crankbaits thrown around the schooling bass are catching fish on almost every cast. The bigger fish are in 30 plus feet of water and can be caught by throwing spinnerbaits and bounding them off of the bottom.
Date: Fri May 13 07:31:09 2005
Name: Narlin Salazar
Email: fishing@mexicanadventures.com
Home Page: http://www.lakehuiteslodge.com
Hottest Baits: spinnerbaits and medium crankbaits
Hottest Colors: shad and baby bass
Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...Catches per boat are ranging from 50 to 125 per boat, depending on the patterns fished during the day. Catching lots of 1 to 3 lb. fish but also finding more 5 to 8 lb. fish than we have seen in three years. The canyons are full of fish that will react to just about any bait. The areas in front of Taco Paco are excellent for plastics and Carolina-rigged lizards.
Date: Fri Apr 8 07:43:55 2005
Name: Francis Drexler
Email: francis.drexler@readingpa.org
Home Page: 815 Washington St. Reading, Pa.
Hottest Baits: medium crankbaits, flukes
Hottest Colors: white
Date / Time Fished: 3/30/05- 4/2/05
Wrote...Just returned home from my 2nd trip to lake Huites. Once again the fishing was great. Caught nearly 100 fish per day while concentrating on larger fish. Went out one afternoon and caught 60 fish with 20 fish being better than 5 lbs. Had two fish over 8lbs on crankbaits. Our guide Nino was great and worked hard for us. The food was great and the service of your whole staff could not have been better. Can't wait to return.
Date: Tue Apr 5 08:35:45 2005
Name: Narlin Salazar
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Home Page: www.lakehuiteslodge.com
Hottest Baits: flukes, senkos, medium crankbaits
Hottest Colors: white, pearl white
Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...Lake Huites is very, very good right now with lots of folks catching in excess of 150 fish per day, up to 8 1/2 lbs. Almost every place on the lake is holding some fish. Twin tail flukes and senkos are catching numbers with medium-running crankbaits catching fish up to 8 1/2 lbs. on the main lake points. PopRs and buzzbaits doing very good late evening, fishing all of the way to almost past dark. The lake is still 98% full and the bass activity is the best we have seen it in four years.
Date: Sun Mar 27 07:04:40 2005
Name: Butch Cooley
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Wrote...Hi Terry, Just wanted to let you know we had a really fantastic time at Lake Huites Lodge. Laurie and I did over 400 fish in 3 days, and I have to tell you I am really sore!! I have muscles aching I didn't know I had. I caught a lot of bass on the fly, mostly in the morning. Got tons of material for articles. Had fun with Ross and everyone else. Great bunch of guys and gals. But I have to ask you where did you get those beds. Those beds are to die for!!
Date: Sat Mar 26 06:31:54 2005
Name: Lynn Davenport
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Date / Time Fished: March 16, 17, 18
Wrote...Terry, Four friends and I spent Mar. 16 17 18 Fishing at Huites. We had a great time . Everyone was well pleased with the service and attention we received. Manuel was my guide and he was great,he put us on fish everwhere we went. We stopped at one spot and I caught 15 fish on 15 cast all between 2 and 4 lbs. I would guess I caught between 100 and 200 bass each day not counting what he caught. The largest fish caught in our group was an 8 1/2 pounder by Rod Battles.We didn`t catch alot of big fish but numbers made up for lack of size. The girls in the kitchen were great , coffee at our door in the morning and margarettas at lunch and at night. The food was great also. Narlin does a good job for you also, I got to fish with he and Manuel last Friday morning we had a great time with them singing . hope to get to do this again maybe in Oct. We`ll be talking to you later. Thanks alot. Lynn Davenport
Date: Sun Mar 6 22:37:30 2005
Name: George Bullette
Email: bullette@pacbell.net
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Hottest Baits: Crankbaits, swimbaits, worms
Hottest Colors: Shad, chartreuse, white
Date / Time Fished: All day
Wrote...Just returned with son from several days of fishing Huites with guide Manuel. Best technique seemed to be medium cranks and swimbaits in 5 to 10 foot depth honey holes. When the crank and swimbait action slowed, we could change to worms and continue to catch a few more. Caught 196 between 1 and 4 1/2 pounds before noon on our best morning. Averaged about 200 fish per day for 3 days. Many strikes on medium-sized white and shad swimbaits but found it difficult to hook them. Service was excellent but the road from Los Mochis to the lodge really rattled our teeth.
Date: Wed Mar 2 19:28:06 2005
Name: Bruce Trombley
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Hottest Baits: crankbaits
Hottest Colors: all
Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...This report just in: Bruce Trombley, while fishing with Lake Huites Lodge guide Manuel Salazar, caught 276 fish today. Most all fish caught using medium-running crankbaits and spinnerbaits in 5 to 15 feet of water and fish could literally be caught everywhere they stopped. Although the largest fish was 6 lbs., the fishing was excellent for fish in the 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 lb. range. Irving deGaris and his wife caught so many fish this morning - in excess of 150 fish - the just fished for a couple of hours this afternoon.
Date: Mon Feb 28 10:00:25 2005
Name: Narlin Salazar
Email: fishing@mexicanadventures.com
Home Page: http://www.lakehuiteslodge.com
Hottest Baits: Crankbaits
Hottest Colors: Shad, watermelon, chartreuse
Date / Time Fished: all
Wrote...Today has been the best fishing day we have had all year long. Small cramkbaits is shad color fishing the coves around the lake produced 50 between 4 an 5 pounds. Bill Davis of Waco caught 176 fish on Saturday using both small crankbaits and Watermelon Lizzards.
Date: Thu Feb 24 19:26:22 2005
Name: Russ J
Email: fishing@mexicanadventures.com
Home Page: http://www.lakehuiteslodge.com
Hottest Baits: Lizards
Hottest Colors: pumkin
Date / Time Fished: alldayq
Wrote...Today was a very good day with guide Oscar catching 126 fish in the 3 to 4 pound range. Some of the other boats fishing the main points caught 70 fish a today. Most of the fish are still a little deep for this time of year. Rattletraps in the Canyons worked very good. Very little topwater bite today
Date: Thu Feb 24 07:32:07 2005
Name: Narlin Salazar
Email: fishing@mexicanadventures.com
Home Page:
Hottest Baits: Bill Dance Fat Free Shad
Hottest Colors: Tennessee Shad, citrus Shad
Date / Time Fished: all day
Wrote...As we expected, all of the new water, with all of the new brush that is submerged, the fishing at Lake Huites is excellent. Yesterday, the Bill Davis group out of Waco, Texas, averaged 80 to 100 fish today with many, many 4 and 5 lb. fish. The big fish of the day was a 10.1. We are having excellent topwater bite late afternoon.
Date: Tue Feb 22 09:15:56 2005
Name: Scott A. Webster
Email: as400guru@msn.com
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Hottest Baits: Lizards Spinnerbaits
Hottest Colors: Watermelon Red / White
Date / Time Fished: 02/16-17-18
Wrote...Lake Huites is way above the old high water mark. Water is pretty stained as well; although clearer water can be found if you look hard. Had a real good trip, the staff at Lake Huites Lodge was great as always. My brother and I did real well numbers wise each day although our largest bass was 6 LBS. Did catch an 8 LB catfish (channel ?) on a spinner bait..... The high, stained water has the fish real shallow and tight to the bank and cover. All in all another great trip. The lake ought to be fantastic this coming fall and spring with the increased nutrient influx.
Date: Tue Feb 22 06:51:52 2005
Name: Mike McGowen
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Hottest Baits: Lizard & Crankbait
Hottest Colors: Watermelon & Citrus
Date / Time Fished: 2-17-18-19-05
Wrote...Another good trip to Huites Lodge. Service is as good as it gets. The fishing is not quite there yet. Lake is still muddy and very high. 117% is what we were told. Fish are bunched up. Its a hit and miss deal all day. 0 fish sometimes to 75 in one hour. My opion is the lake needs about one more month to warm and settle down from the record rainfall. Thanks to all at the Lodge for a great job and a nice trip.
Date: Mon Feb 7 09:53:35 2005
Name: Terry Hollan
Email: fishing@mexicanadventures.com
Home Page: http://www. Mexicanadventures.com/
Hottest Baits: buzz baits, lizzards
Hottest Colors: white
Date / Time Fished: Sunday
Wrote...We recently received 5 inches of rain and it has slow the numbers of fish down at both Huites and Baccarac. At Baccarac Harris Hatfield did catch a 13.11 on a white buzzbait and a 13.1 a Green Pumkin Lizzard. Numbers at Baccarac are averaging 40 fish day with most fish still in 20ft of water. At Lake Huites the Lake is 99% full and fishing has been ranging from good to excellent with 80 fish per day being caught with fish up to 8 pounds caught using Bill Dance Fat Free Shad
Date: Sun Jan 9 09:58:20 2005
Name: Narlin Salazar
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Home Page: http://www.lakehuiteslodge.com
Hottest Baits: Worms, Lizards, Spinnerbaits,
Hottest Colors: june bug, blue fleck
Date / Time Fished: 6,7,8 of Jan
Wrote...Fishing is improving with the warmer weather. Soon it will be as good as it was in November. Some boats catching over 130 per day with many 6 to 8 pound bass. The lake is almost full with lots of water still coming to the lake but the season for the crops is starting. Many fish can found in the canyons and rivers. The main lake fishing is slower
Date: Fri Jan 7 17:50:22 2005
Name: Ted Nall
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Hottest Baits: 6 inch watermelon
Hottest Colors: worms
Date / Time Fished: all
Wrote...Just returned from Lake HUITES and had a wonderful trip. 2 out of 3 days where excellent catches with numbers over 120 per boat by myself and my partner. 1 day was very slow and very cold. We used only 6 inch worms and fished in 22ft of water. Near the Damn the fishing is very slow because of the dirty water. The canyons and the rivers produced the better fishing. Good Fishing