I fished a short, 2 hour Memorial Day evening trip with Brynne and Brette D. of Jonesboro, GA, tonight. The girls finished school back home and traveled to the Austin to visit cousins Trent and Molly. Uncle Andy brought the whole gang out for a quick evening trip on Stillhouse.

Brynn and Brett with the two best white bass of our trip this evening

Start Time: 6:15p

End Time: 8:40p

Air Temp: 92F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~84F

Wind: Winds were SSE at 7

Skies: Skies were fair with a bit of haze.

As we headed out, I learned that the girls had very little fishing experience, so, we hit the shallows in search of sunfish so they could be immediately successful. We got situated in a small, protected cove (Area 641) and soon everyone had landed multiple sunfish including bluegill, green sunfish, and longear sunfish — 7 to be exact.

It was now time for a change of pace. We headed to between Areas 176 and 243 and found abundant, suspended white bass and a spattering of baitfish in this general area. We put downriggers down over top of these fish and immediately began to pick up fish on Pets and Pet/Licker combos. In all, we boated 13 white bass and 1 largemouth.

Around sunset, we give tightlining for largemouth a try, but struck out on that at Area 596.

TALLY = 21 FISH