Fished a short evening trip with my mom, Charlotte, who is here from Kentucky on her yearly visit with us for a few weeks.

MY MOM, CHARLOTTE, WITH A PAIR OF NICE WHITE TAKEN 2 AT A TIME ON A PET / LICKER COMBO

Start Time: 6:15p

End Time: 8:45p

Air Temp: 98F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~87F

Wind: Winds were from the SSW at 4-5 the entire trip.

Skies: Skies were clear and blue the entire trip under the influence of a strong high pressure cap.



We fished just 3 areas tonight and found fish at two of them.

First stop came at Area 478. The fish we suspended over 35+ feet at 24-26 feet deep, and were concentrated right on top of Area 478 with a few fish breaking the surface on occasion, all generally over water shallower than 25′ and up as shallow as 12′. We caught these fish both via downrigger with a Pet and a Pet / Licker combo, and via casting with blades worked at all depths as dictated by sonar and fish activity. We stayed here until nearly sunset (at 8:34) and boated a total of 29 fish, including 4 just legal hybrid.

We moved to Area 473 and took a hard look up against the S. shore for topwater and saw nothing. Bait was abundant but gamefish few. After a few downrigger passes we could only come up with a single stray blue cat.

We finished up at Area 147, again, looking for topwater, but finding none. Sonar did reveal active, bottom hugging fish from 17 to 12 feet deep here, so we used blades in both horizontal and vertical presentations and quickly added 7 more fish to the tally — all average white bass.

TALLY = 37 FISH, all caught and released

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