I fished a half-day evening trip with Bill and Bonnie S. of Salado. Back in the Fall, the Salado Education Foundation asked me to donate a trip to their annual Cattlemen’s Ball fundraiser. Bill and Bonnie were high-bidders and cashed in their certificate today!

Fishing continues to improve and move shallower. We landed 33 fish on this trip and only one was taken in water greater than 15 feet.

Bonnie holds the largest of our 33 fish taken this evening, a 3.25 pound largemouth

Bill and Bonnie show the best 4 of our haul of white bass

Start Time: 3:00p

End Time: 7:50p

Air Temp: 67F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~62F.

Wind: Winds were slack at trip’s start, then picked up out of the SE at a light 6-7 mph.

Skies: Skies were partly cloudy at ~20%.

Things started out slow as expected on a calm, bright afternoon, but slowly ramped up to a peak about 45 minutes before sunset. We caught a single, small white bass off of Area 34 on a slab, and zeroed at Area 603/604.

We then started picking up fish around Area 116 on a flatline rigged up with 3 Rip Shads and a single Bomber and boated 21 fish over about an hour’s time from around 5:40 to 6:40. This action started to wane a bit earlier than usual here, but, as this was winding down, I spotted some action at Area 605 (BA: 6T).

We found fish up shallow, between 3 and 11 feet, and feeding aggressively. We cast Cicadas and fished them lift-drop style and boated 11 additional fish at this location in the last 30 minutes of the trip. These fish included a mix of largemouth and white bass. Bonnie caught the largest fish of the trip — a nice 3.25 pound largemouth — in this area. We found fish adjacent to this shallow area along the face of a steep break here down into 27 feet of water, however, the fish were all in the top 9-11 feet of the water column, so I had Bill and Bonnie let their lures down to bottom and crank up through these fish. That short-lived bit of action landed us the largest of our largemouth and one other white bass. By dark the action was done and we were headed back in.

TALLY = 33 Fish, all caught and released