This evening I fished with Raul G. of Harker Heights, TX, and his 3 kids, Lauren, Olivia, and Cristian.
One of the last fish we boated this evening was this chunky 18.25″ largemouth bass that slammed one of our crankbaits as we flatline trolled attempting to locate tightly bunched groups of white bass.
We caught lots of white bass today both by way of jigging and smoking techniques.
Raul took some vacation time off for Spring Break to spend it with his children and things worked out very well as far as both weather and fish cooperation level were concerned. Just being on the boat was a big thrill for the kids.
We made a short stop at Area 074 where we caught 11 white bass in no time, thus allowing for some “instant gratification” and allowing for the kids to get practiced at the techniques we’d be employing for the rest of the trip.
Next we headed to Area 1055 where we boated 35 white bass from out of ~37 feet in open water, all on TNT180 slabs, and all using either a jigging or smoking tactic.
As sunset approached, the clouds in the west thickened which meant our sunset would be obscured and the fishing would come to an end a bit earlier than normal. We headed to shallower water once this clouding occurred, and fished first at Area 698. We found a few fish on sonar, gave it a try, boated 2 white bass and left after seeing this wasn’t going to materialize into much.
We made our final stop at Area 549/103 and put out twin flatlines with Wiggle Warts and RipShad 200’s tied on to work the entire depth range encountered in this area. We made multiple passes here over about a 30 minute span and put a final 6 fish in the boat, including the largest fish of the trip, a nice 18.25 inch largemouth.
TALLY = 54 fish, all caught and released.
TODAY’S CONDITIONS:
Start Time: 3:45p
End Time: 7:45p
Air Temp: 73F at trip’s start.
Water Surface Temp: 62.1F
Wind: Winds were S8-10.
Skies: Skies were partly sunny to mostly cloudy.