Sports

With each cool front come the north winds and the lower tides. In fact, many times when these fronts come through, the tidal marshes are nearly drained of most of their water. Whenever the water leaves, so does the baitfish and shrimp that inhabit those areas. With this situation comes the fall turn-on for fish catching. This is the case not only on the areas near the marsh drains, but this bait will also move out into the inland saltwater lakes and bays. And it will make the predator fish more vulnerable to the anglers.

Trainer Kelly Breen won his second consecutive Jean Lafitte Stakes at Delta Downs when Kentucky bred Bern Identity won the $200,000 race for open bred 2-year-olds going 1 mile on Oct. 20.

Chad Cooper (Sports editor)
Winners: 6-22, .272
Best Bets: 1-2, .500
Longshots: 1-2, .500
Top 3 picks in the $: .454

Don Stevens (Delta track announcer)
Winners: 6-22, .272
Best Bets: 2-2, 1.000
Longshots: 0-2, .000
Top 3 picks in the $: .512

Morning Line Odds
Winners: 7-22, .318
Best Bets: 4-10, .400
Longshots: 0-0, .000
Top 3 picks in the $: .499

October is the month for some exceptional bass fishing on lakes within a quick-hit run from Beaumont, or for that matter, Southeast Texas in general. With each passing cold front, water temperatures on lakes like Sam Rayburn and Toledo Bend drop into that magical zone that tells bass it’s time to chow down and fatten up for the lean winter months to come. The water temperature on both Rayburn and T-Bend is holding right at the 75 to 77 degree mark.