Texas Lake Churns Out Four Massive Lunkers

O.H. Ivie Lake near San Angelo, Texas continues its hot streak with four more massive Legacy Class ShareLunkers in the span of four days.

Bud Robey of New Carlisle, Ohio reeled in a 14.18-pound ShareLunker 664 on March 17;

Kyle Hall of Granbury boated 15.82-pound ShareLunker 665 on March 18;

Larry Walker of Irving landed his second Legacy Class fish of the season with a 13.62-pound ShareLunker 666 on March 20;

and Scott Hines of Fort Cobb, Oklahoma caught 13.22-pound ShareLunker 667 Wednesday.

Hall’s ShareLunker 665 is the largest this season and also the 37th heaviest largemouth bass in Texas history. Hall is the only angler to land a Legacy Class Lunker in three consecutive seasons.

Two of Hall’s fish are currently ranked in the Texas top 50. Hall’s first top 50 fish was caught on March 1, 2022, with a 16.10-pound ShareLunker 624 and on Jan. 29, 2023, he reeled in a 13.58-pound ShareLunker 635. All three of Hall’s Legacy Class lunkers were caught at O.H. Ivie.

Hall is a fishing guide and the client he had scheduled for the day cancelled at the last minute. Hall said he doesn’t have many days on the water by himself, so he took the opportunity to target a ShareLunker.

Monday night’s catch was monumental for Hall and the ShareLunker program. He is the first angler in program history to catch a Legacy Class fish in three consecutive seasons.

“The first year I just wanted to go to the banquet and be the cool kid with a ShareLunker,” added Hall. “The first one was a 16.10-pounder which is unreal and last year I just wanted to try and catch another one. Since January 1, I’ve only been fishing by myself on O.H. Ivie for two days. After having two Legacy Class fish in a row, I knew time was closing in on me to get a third. I spent daylight to dark on Saturday and spent daylight to almost dark on Monday when I caught her around 7 p.m.”

O.H. Ivie has produced an unprecedented run of ShareLunkers during the last four seasons, accounting for the final ShareLunker of the 2020 collection and then exploding for 12 Legacy Class Lunkers in both the 2021 and 2022 seasons. It proceeded to shatter the single-season collection record for that waterbody with 15 ShareLunkers in 2023.

O.H. Ivie is outpacing the field again in 2024 for not only Legacy Class fish but other catch classes as well. The lake has yielded 11 Strike King Elite Class entries and three Bass Pro Shops Lunker Class entries since Jan. 1. These four fish moved the total to 49 combined Legacy Lunkers and multiple Legend Class entries over the past four collections seasons.

During the first three months of the season (Jan. 1-March 31), anglers who reel in a 13-plus pound bass can loan it to TPWD for the ShareLunker selective breeding and stocking program. These anglers can call the ShareLunker hotline at (903) 681-0550 to report their catch 24/7 through March 31.