At 2,800 acres, Lake Alan Henry near Lubbock, Texas, isn’t exactly a big reservoir by Lone Star State standards. But what it lacks in size it sure makes up for in yielding oversize largemouth bass.
The lake record is Billy Greeson’s 2006 15-pounder. In 2020, Blake Cockrell caught a 14.36-pound Share Lunker largemouth from the reservoir. And perhaps most famous of all is the 14.78-pound Share Lunker bass that Ross Gomez caught three separate times there from 2023 to 2026.
Learning the Lake
That kind of bass fishing got the attention of New Mexico’s Russell Hessen. So Hessen, his wife Christine, and 15-year-old son Colton all trailered their Triton 21-foot bass boat nearly 200 miles to fish Alan Henry for a few days in mid-April.
“The first day we fished we caught a few bass, but it was kind of slow,” Russell told Wired2fish. “The next day (April 20) was a little misty, rainy and 55 degrees when we started…