14 AUGUST 2008






This is one of 5 reports for a 5 day vacation trip made to Canyon Lake, TX from M-F, 11-15 August, 2008.

WEEK’S SUMMARY:

To summarize the weather, Monday was heavily overcast and unseasonably comfortable up until around 11:00am when the thick blanket of clouds burned off. By that evening the temperatures had climbed back to mid-August norms with partly cloudy skies and hot, humid conditions.

On Tuesday, we woke to rain and occasional lightning right up until around 2pm. The skies then cleared out and again, by that evening the temperatures had climbed back to mid-August norms with partly cloudy skies and hot, humid conditions.

Wednesday and Thursday were photocopies of one another, with fair skies, unobscured sunrise and sunset, and hot, nearly windless conditions during the day with temps in the high nineties.

Friday was much like Monday with heavily overcast skies and unseasonably comfortable up until around 11:00am when the thick blanket of clouds burned off. By that evening the temperatures had climbed back to mid-August norms with partly cloudy skies and hot, humid conditions and a light SE breeze with thunderheads building in the SE.

In reviewing the entire week, morning success far exceeded evening success, and Areas 230 and 224 were by far the most productive during that morning time.


THURSDAY’S REPORT:

We mixed it up a little this morning and revisited the largemouth action at Area 224. It was solid and yielded 15 largemouth, all coming on the cork rig. After that action died, I headed back down to the dam to try the stripers again. W arrived in the vicinity of Area 221, found a large school of stripers, again in 60-75 feet of water over even deeper water, and immediately picked up one on a smoked TNT 180. Thinking this was too easy, I kept on but without much more success. Over a 90 minute period, I only caught 1 more striper and 1 white bass, both by way of smoking via the flasher. These fish came from the S. side of the dam’s discharge structure. At this point we broke for lunch and returned in the evening.

On this evening’s trip I found a few fish holding tight to bottom at Area 226. I got a crappie, a largemouth, and 3 white bass here. Again, we experienced a real lag in activity until nearly dark, at which point white bass came up onto the point at Area 224 and I managed to add 8 fish to the caught by both jigging and horizontally retrieving a Cicada

TALLY TODAY: 41 FISH, all caught and released

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing








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