Fished a solo half day morning trip on Stillhouse followed by a half day evening trip on Belton with Mr. Rodney T. of Belton. The reports for these two trips appear separately.

Start Time: 6:45a

End Time: 11:00a

Air Temp: 60F at trip’s start, warming to the low 70’s by day’s end

Water Temp: 68.1F

Wind: Winds were light but steady from the SW at 4-6 from pre-dawn until 8:45am, and then went slack until after noon.

Skies: Skies were lightly overcast and grey the until around 11:30am today. Skies lightened and darkened over the course of the morning, but direct sun did not shine during the morning trip.

This was a slow morning due to the near windless conditions. Sunrise was obscured by clouds this morning, so the light level stayed fairly low for a good while. At exactly 8:11, the combination of light SW wind and light got just right, and nature turned on hard for about 30 minutes. During this time, several gulls appeared from nowhere and began feeding on shad pushed to the surface by well-dispersed white bass in the stretch of water between Area 109 and Area 54. I caught 27 of my 29 fish of the trip in this short burst of activity. During this time I caught fish on live shad, on a small slab fished vertically and smoked, on a 3/4 oz. slab fished vertically, horizontally, and in a smoked fashion, and on a cast blade bait. I landed 3 drum, 2 largemouth, and 22 whites from 11 to 14 inches in length. The breeze died around 9am and with it, the fishing died as well.

The remainder of the trip I managed only 2 more small largemouth bass, one via downrigging and one via a slab off Area 312.

TALLY = 29 FISH, all caught and released

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