Sam Rayburn Reservoir bass boat
— a bass boat at first light, the cypress still dark.
Not only on a wall.
Sam Rayburn Reservoir bass boat, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“The largest lake entirely inside Texas: about 114,500 acres of impounded Angelina River, ringed by Sam Houston National Forest pine and standing cypress. The Corps of Engineers closed the dam in 1965 and named the lake for the Bonham congressman who became Speaker of the House. Largemouth bass country, with a long professional-tournament history out of Umphrey Family Pavilion and Twin Dikes. A bass boat at five-thirty in the morning is the postcard: the trolling motor whispering, the cypress knees holding the dark a little longer than the sky does.
The place, in three passes.
Sam Rayburn Reservoir is an impoundment of the Angelina River in deep East Texas, formed by the Sam Rayburn Dam about 25 miles north of Jasper. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, built the dam and began impoundment in 1965; at full pool the lake covers roughly 114,500 acres and is the largest body of water lying entirely within Texas. The reservoir spans Jasper, San Augustine, Angelina, and Sabine counties and is partially ringed by the Angelina and Sabine National Forests. It is named for Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn of Bonham, Texas, who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives for seventeen years.
Standing timber and flooded cypress define the shoreline; the lake was only partially cleared before impoundment, and a 60-year underwater forest still shapes where the fish hold. Largemouth bass is the headline species, with crappie, white bass, and catfish behind it. The Texas Parks & Wildlife state-record largemouth from Rayburn ran above sixteen pounds. Major BASS and FLW events have run out of Umphrey Family Pavilion on the south shore for two decades. Surface temperature swings hard through the year: from the high forties in February to the high eighties by August.
Bass anglers launch in the dark. Twin Dikes, Umphrey, Cassels-Boykin, and Powell Park ramps run twenty-four hours and fill before five a.m. on a tournament Saturday. The water lies low across the cypress knees at first light, mist coming off the warmer pockets, the sound of a single trolling motor carrying across half a mile. The professional run of the lake is the standing-timber north end and the creek mouths off Veatch and Ayish Bayou. By eight the sun is up and the bite slows; by ten the boats are working back toward shade.
