Green Eggs and … Fish??? 111 Fish, Spring Break 2013, Day 4 (PM), Salado Fishing Guide Report






This fourth day of Spring Break 2013 I was joined in the afternoon by Dr. Dan D. and his 15 year old son, Jason, of San Antonio, TX.

Dan boated this long 6.00 pound flathead catfish from amidst an aggressively feeding white bass school in 38 feet of water.




Jason caught this 2.00 pound largemouth and the white bass just feet away from where Dan hooked his big catfish.


As the sun set and the shadows got long, we experienced a short blitz of white bass action allowing us to put 59 white bass, most of this quality, in the boat in under an hour.





Dan and Jason no sooner concluded a morning flyfishing outing for trout on the Guadalupe River than they sped north to link up with me this afternoon for some conventional tackle fishing for white bass on Stillhouse.

As most afternoon trips this time of year do, this trip started off a bit slow, then built as we moved towards sunset.

Before leaving the ramp area, we went over in detail exactly how to vertical jig with a slab, as I expected most, if not all, of our trip would involve this tactic.

We first connected with a few fish on a gentle breakline near the old river channel at Area 1185. These fish were sluggish and appeared in small clusters of 3-5 fish each, so, this made for some slow going, but, it also allowed us to boat some fish during a typically slow time of day AND to really polish up our jigging technique. We boated 17 fish in this area before moving on.

With their slabbing skills now honed, we moved on to Area 1038 and found a large school of smallish fish right at the break into the old river channel on the extreme NW portion of this topographic feature. We went to work with our slabs and, over the next 90 minutes, put an additional 35 fish in the boat including a few 12 inch white bass, a 2 pound largemouth, and a 6 pound yellow catfish. By 6:45p this area had played out.

I went looking over a few other areas adjacent to the river channel but saw little. Then, in the distance, I saw a few terns working anxiously over a fair spread of water. They were definitely looking “fishy”. As I idled about beneath the area (Area 1184) where the terns were working, the bottom literally lit up with white bass — they were all over this place, from bottom and upward to as much as 4-5 feet above the bottom. I did my best to hover us in place over what appeared to be the “center of mass” for this action and the game was on! We sat in one spot and more than doubled our catch in less than 50 minutes, taking our tally from 52 fish up to 111 fish. We used only a moderately-paced smoking tactic here. Jigging was not necessary as these fish were neither sluggish nor bottom-oriented.

Now, about those green eggs … it’s not what you’re thinking. “Green Eggs” are actually some new-fangled form of grill which use ceramic material to retain heat and provide a consistent cooking temperature over time. There is evidently a “Green Egg Grill” convention in Salado this weekend and Dan and Jason are pairing up to cook some samples and enjoy the festivities planned at Pace’s Park.


TALLY = 111 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 3:30p

End Time: 7:45p

Air Temp: 72F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~58F

Wind: Winds were SSW10-13

Skies: Skies were fair and cloudless.

Environmental Note: Noted first mayflies hatching today and first mass “rise” of insect life off the bottom at sunrise tonight.








You Ever Really NEED a Fishing Trip? Spring Break 2013, Day 4 (AM), 52 Fish, Stillhouse Hollow






This fourth day of Spring Break 2013 I was joined by Tom S. of Dallas, his son, Jack, and Jack’s friend, Jake, both age 17.

Jack with two of the nicer fish we boated on blade baits cast horizontally this morning.




Tom with a TPWD Big Fish Award winner. That fat white bass on the left measured 15.25 inches.


Jake was pretty new to fishing, but is an athlete, so, his coordination kicked in after a bit of coaching and he held his own on what was a new adventure for him today.





Sometimes a fishing trip is a nicety, other times, it is a necessity. I’d rank this trip in the “necessity” category. Spring Break has not been easy on Tom and his clan — Tom suspects his new Lab puppy of burying his wallet earlier this week with cash, cards, ID, and fishing license. Next, Jack’s car got a “free towing package” awarded to it as it sat at a Subway while he and Jake attended Six Flags in Arlington, and, to top it all off, they all got a major runaround from a major outdoor retailer while trying to get Jake his license for this trip. By the time they got to the boat ramp after an early morning 3+ hour drive from DFW, they NEEDED to catch some fish for therapeutic purposes!!

We made “first contact” with fish today using downriggers between Area 052 and 335 over a 20-25 foot flat. Terns showed us the way to the fish, but the fish were widely scattered in small clusters, so, we covered ground in a hurry with the ‘riggers and wound up boating 21 fish in our first 70 minutes, including 3 sets of doubles, all on Pet Spoons.

Next, we headed to Area 1183 and found white bass feeding aggressively along the bottom at a breakline from ~17 to 25 feet of water. I saw these fish were stacked vertically on the drop and dispersed horizontally up on the flat in this area, so, we first “smoked” slabs vertically for the fish directly beneath us, and then cast blade baits and worked them near bottom to coax the fish on the flat into striking. We put 26 fish in the boat in this area, most of which went 13.5 to 14.5 inches, with one fish Tom boated going exactly 15.25 inches, thus qualifying him for a TPWD “Big Fish” Award.

By around 12:30 things were beginning the downhill slide toward the midday pause in action between the morning bite and evening bite. We tried one last stop at Area 074 and, with very little showing on sonar, managed to put a final 5 fish in the boat, all via a vertical jigging approach.

TALLY = 52 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 8:15a

End Time: 1:15p

Air Temp: 50F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~57-58F

Wind: Winds were SSW10-13

Skies: Skies were fair and cloudless.








Spring Break 2013, Day 3 – Fishing with The Holeman Clan — 130 Fish, Stillhouse Hollow






This third day of Spring Break 2013 I was joined by The Holeman’s — Grandpa Gary, his son, Rick, Rick’s wife, Cylena, and Rick and Cylena’s daughter, McCartney — all from the Midland area where Gary works in the oil business and Rick pastors Cotton Flat Baptist Church.

Fishing was the “main event” for the Holeman’s Spring Break camping trip this year.




Cylena boated the trip’s largest fish today — a nice largemouth that was hanging out with a big school of white bass down around 38 feet.




This was a really fun trip for me today. This was a great, close-knit, godly family who clearly enjoyed being with one another. McCartney, age 13, had never been on a guided trip before, so, this was her first experience with that and, fortunately, the weather and fish both cooperated to make it a memorable one.

As is often the case on bright, cool days, we found our fish up shallow early on, and out deeper later in the trip.

We did a bit of flatline trolling with crankbaits to kick the morning off as it was nearly windless and no birds were yet working. We picked up two nice white bass off of Area 116 and were about to put the baits back out when we spotted some terns working over fish. We headed to them (in the vicinity of Area 557). We got into our vertical jigging mode (which we’d practiced earlier) and began to pull fish. We put an additional 17 fish in the boat here out of 19 feet of water before the action dried up on us.

Next, we headed to Area 055/995 and found a few packs of fish in and around this location in ~25 feet of water. These fish were a bit reluctant, but, we worked them over with the jigging spoons pretty well and wound up leaving this area with a tally of 37 fish.

By 10:30, the SE wind was building and the sun was getting higher, so, I decided to head deep and check some haunts further downlake. We hit paydirt at Area 1039/981 in about 38 feet of water. Over the next 2 hours we caught fish steadily from within a foot of the bottom. There were a number of times when, with 4-5 rods going, we had 2, 3, or 4 fish coming aboard at the same time.

We had fun hitting “milestones” of 50 fish, then 61 (the highest previous fish count for this Spring Break week), then 100, then 122 (double the highest previous fish count for the week), until we finally came to rest at 130. It was almost 1pm and the fish were getting fewer and further between, plus, we discovered Grandma H. had been waiting in the parking lot for over and hour!

So, we took some good photos and headed back in to the boat ramp, with some much more accomplished anglers aboard than we had left the dock with just a few hours earlier.

Thank you all for coming out fishing with me!

TALLY = 130 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 7:45a

End Time: 12:45p

Air Temp: 48F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~57F

Wind: Winds were SE8-9

Skies: Skies were fair and cloudless.








Spring Break 2013, Day 2 (PM) – 61 Fish, Texas White Bass Fishing Guide Report






This second day of Spring Break 2013 I was joined in the evening by Andy and Trent M. of N. Austin.


Trent took big fish honors tonight with this 4.5 pound largemouth vertical jigged from out of 55 feet of water amidst a huge school of white bass.


Andy and Trent landed this pair of schoolie largemouth just seconds apart from a deep rockpile in 50 feet of water.

We zigged when we should have zigged this afternoon. We left the boat launch and were literally into fish less than 4 minutes later as the sonar showed the bottom over top of Area 1039/981 littered with fish. We got baits in the water, slabs on bottom, and up came the fish. At this first stop, we pulled 17 fish in very short order before the fish quit kind of abruptly. I’ve seen this on occasion when a school of big predator fish (longnose gar or outsized largemouth) come in and crash the party. Regardless, what started quickly ended just as quickly and we were off again to find fish.

Our next success came at Area 946 in about 55 feet of water. Again, as I idled over the area with sonar on, the bottom was just crawling with white bass here. These were very active, aggressive fish as indicated by their willingness to rise up to our falling slabs as we lowered our baits, and by the fishes’ tendency to follow hooked schoolmates almost 2/3’s of the way to the surface before turning back for the safety of the bottom. Since these fish were a bit smallish, we agreed we’d put 20 in the boat and then go looking elsewhere. This took all of about 7 minutes and we were on our way looking in some similar deepwater areas, but came up clean, so, we returned to Area 946 to fish until the shadows were long enough to lead me to believe that we could find some fish up shallow to cast for. By the time we left, we’d brought our tally up to 61 fish.

With about 30 minutes to go until sunset, we headed uplake and looked in some shallower (<25') areas for schooled white bass, but, tonight found little. With the air getting colder, Trent's sweatshirt seemed to be getting thinner, so, we called it a great afternoon with 61 fish boated and headed for the dock and some burgers on the grill.

TALLY = 61 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 4:35a

End Time: 7:45p

Air Temp: 68F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~56-57F

Wind: Winds were ESE13

Skies: Skies were fair and cloudless.








Spring Break 2013, Day 2 (AM) – Fishing with Grandpa Dolph and Grayson — 59 Fish, Stillhouse Hollow






This second day of Spring Break 2013 I was joined by Dolph M. and one of his grandsons, Grayson, of Circle C, Texas.

Grandpa Dolph and Grayson sharing some time together, catching fish, enjoying the great outdoors, (and eating some BIG muffins).





I first got to know Dolph last year when he brought another batch of grandkids (from Los Angeles, CA) out for some hybrid fishing on Lake Belton.

Grayson is 12 years old and really did well today. Depth control is really the name of the game on these cold, bottom-hugging fish and Grayson did well at making sure his presentation was exactly where it needed to be.

This year, with a lighter load of passengers, Dolph joined in on the fishing instead of just chaperoning as he did last time. We caught a good bunch of fish today for our efforts (and had some awesome muffins, weighing in at about 3 pounds a piece)!

We found fish at 6 different locations this morning and, due to the still-low water temperatures (56-57F) wound up vertical jigging for every last one of the fish we boated. We enjoyed success up shallow (15-22 feet) early on and then, due to bright, clear skies, found our mid- to late-morning fish out deeper (35-40 feet). Birds were helpful to some degree, although very distracted by loon and cormorant action now. We found fish at Areas 052, 101/330, and 372 early and shallow. We found fish at 1180, 1181, and 1182 deeper later in the morning.

After a total of 5 hours on the water, we’d boated at total of 59 fish, including 4 crappie, 5 largemouth bass, 1 drum and 49 white bass.


TALLY = 59 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 7:45a

End Time: 12:45p

Air Temp: 47F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~56-57F

Wind: Winds were S9-11

Skies: Skies were fair and cloudless.








Spring Break Tradition — 50 Fish — Central Texas White Bass Run 2013, 11 Mar. 2013






This first day of Spring Break 2013 I was joined by “Grandma” Joyce W. and 2 of her grandsons, C.J. (age 13), and Nate (age 9).


C.J. was all about the fishing. He really focused on his technique today and was rewarded with the lion’s share of the catch


Nate was all about enjoying the whole experience and only occasionally allowed himself to be sidetracked by the catching of fish.




For several years now Joyce has left the demands of her job at Dallas Baptist University behind to treat C.J. and Nate to a taste of the outdoors over their Spring Break.

Given the cold conditions we faced and a slight drop in water temperature overnight in the wake of Sunday morning’s cold front passage, I planned on primarily vertical jigging today and, as it turned out, that is exactly what was required for success this morning.

We wound up making stops at five distinct areas today, and then “short hopping” at each one in order to stay on top of the fish. We located biting fish at Areas 334, 720, 372, 1178, and 1179. Each place yielded about the same sort of action. Multiple small packs of fish (9-12 individuals) would be patrolling in these areas and would circulate to beneath the boat. We’d catch 3-4 then have a little lag, then catch another 3 or 4, and then have another lag, and so on.

When all was said and done, we’d boated 46 white bass, 3 largemouth bass, and 1 drum. Every single fish came on either a TNT180 in 3/4 oz. white, or a Johnson Splinter Spoon in shad/silver pattern, 3/4oz.

I’ve learned through the years to expect a high quality of improvisational entertainment from young Nate, and this year was no exception. While C.J. was the model of concentration and was independently catching and taking fish off the hook by himself after one or two quick demonstrations early in the morning, Nate lagged behind a bit in the “lengthy attention span category”. With these cold water fish, technique is very important. So, when I was giving Nate the very same prompting and coaching in our fourth hour that I had given him in hours 1-3, I finally stopped and looked at him and asked with a bit of a smirk, “Nate, haven’t we been going over this same technique for the last four hours?” He contemplated that for a moment as only a 9 year old can do and said, “Well, that’s debatable.” Grandma Joyce and I just had to laugh!!


TALLY = 50 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 7:45a

End Time: 12:05p

Air Temp: 38F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~57F

Wind: Winds were NNW9-14

Skies: Skies were bluebird and clear.








First Fish of Her Lifetime!!! 73 Fish, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Report , 09 March 2013






This afternoon I fished with Sam R. and Shawna B., both U.S. Army lieutenants serving with the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood.



As sometimes inexplicably happens, one person seemed to be the “quantity” person, and the other the “quality” person. I’ll let you check with them yourselves to see who was who on this particular trip.

Sam is a Transportation officer originally from Mobile, AL, and graduated from Auburn University; and Shawna serves as an Ordnance officer originally from Arizona, and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. These two were real troopers. They showed up prepared with rain gear and then endured drizzle, rain, wind, and spray, and (for a while) some uncooperative fish, all in the pursuit of white bass. We linked up at 2:30, went over some basics necessary to consistently boat fish at this point in the season, and then headed out in search of fish.

Right up front I told Sam and Shawna, as I tell many folks — fish aren’t that hard to catch, but they can be terribly hard to find. We struggled for the first 2 1/2 hours as I looked over many areas of many different depths and in different parts of the lake looking for fish. We managed 2 fish, a short white and a crappie, just off the river channel at the 3rd or 4th stop we made, but there was no consistency here. That short white, I should note, was landed independently by Shawna, making that the official first fish caught of her lifetime!!

This Spring has been odd thus far with wildly varying weather, colder than normal water, and many days of high winds. All of these factors combine together to keep fish from turning on and staying turned on; instead they are on one day and off the next or feeding for only short periods, or both.

Regardless, we persisted and, taking advantage of a break in the clouds allowing for some deeper water areas to be well-illuminated, we checked out a few areas in 50+ feet of water. One of these, Area 946, was loaded down with fish.

After having “practiced” our vertical jigging at a number of areas, coming up with only 2 fish thus far, Sam and Shawna were ready to go when this big school of fish holding below us decided to cooperate. From the first slab we dropped into the fray to the last time we reeled up as darkness crept up on us, we caught fish after fish, taking our tally from an austere count of 2, up to an above-average catch of 73 fish. All of these fish came on the TNT180 slab in white, 3/4oz.

Thank you, Sam and Shawna, for your service to the nation. I enjoyed fishing with you today and, Shawna, aiding you in landing your first fish. Very fun!!


TALLY = 73 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 2:30p

End Time: 6:30p

Air Temp: 67F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~57F

Wind: Winds were SSE12-17

Skies: Skies were heavy grey, slowly clearing to 60% cloudy.








Dual Purpose Trip: Catch Fish, Learn Sonar — 69 Fish, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide Report






This morning I fished with retired University of Texas history professor Dr. George W. of Austin.




Around 11am, under heavy grey skies, a SE wind, and light rain, George landed this 7.00 pound largemouth from out of a school of mixed year-class white bass.



George and I first met several weekends ago when I presented a seminar about sonar use and interpretation at the Cabela’s store in Buda, TX. We agreed then and there to do a trip that included both catching fish and practical sonar interpretation and adjustment.

As we got going this morning we encountered several brief episodes wherein birds (mainly terns) would feed over both loons and gamefish. Since we found this action mainly in water less than 15 feet deep, we cast horizontally with bladebaits or worked light slabs on mono for these fish. By 10:30 we’d put together a catch of 24 white bass, all of which were solid, thick 13-14″ fish. These came off of Areas 116/407 (7:15-7:45), Area 1176 via vertical jigging (8:30-9:00), and off Area 741 (9:30-10:00).

As the bird and fish action slowly died, I headed out to search deeper areas with sonar. We found a solid school of bottom-hugging white bass at Area 074 around 10:30 and went to work vertically jigging slabs on braid. We doubled our catch to 48 fish in ~35 minutes, and, by the time the school dissipated around 12:15, we’d nearly tripled our shallow water catch, taking our tally up to 69.

Satisfied with our results, we turned our focus to sonar use. Actually, we payed close attention to sonar all morning which served as a bit of “OJT” for George, however, there were some specific skills that he wanted to be sure to have nailed down before hopping back in his own boat on Lake LBJ. We worked on waypoint creation and management originating from the chart screen, the sonar screen, and the StructureScan screen, and then how to access these in the files section under the Waypoints tab. George was a pretty quick study (hey, what do you expect from a professor?), so, when I turned the unit over to him, he did all the right button pushes showing he’d understood the rationale for doing as we did.

George is a well-traveled fisherman with a lot of experience in the big tidal rivers of the Northeast. Comparing notes with him was very enjoyable for me — he may have even convinced me to try a “wacky worm” this year!!


TALLY = 69 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 6:45a

End Time: 12:30p

Air Temp: 56F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~57F

Wind: Winds were ESE most of the morning, ranging from 7-11 mph.

Skies: Skies were heavy grey with occasional drizzle and light rain.








Pigeon-holed by Mother Nature, 19 Fish, Belton Lake, 06 March 2013

This (cold) morning I met brothers Mike and Bob H. of the Wassau, Wisconsin, area for a bit of white bass and hybrid fishing on Belton Lake.

Brothers Mike and Bob with two “white icicles” on a tough, post-frontal fishing day.

Mike has transplanted himself to Morgan’s Point, TX, and Bob was just down for a quick visit, so, we were limited to choosing Tuesday (29 mph straight-line winds and falling temperatures as a cold front arrived) or Wednesday (clear, cold, post-frontal high pressure). So, it was “pick the lesser of two evils” and we went with today.

On my traditional check-in call the night before I told Mike two things: dress warm and be prepared to work for every fish we catch. Well, they dressed well and worked hard!!

It seemed everywhere we went (and we covered from west of BLORA to just shy of the Hwy. 36 bridge) was the same story — very few birds, what birds there were were resting, and bait (if if could be found) up high in the water column. When we did happen upon schooled gamefish, they just refused to come off bottom and give us a look. By 11:00am (with a 6:45am start), we’d only boated 2 fish (at Area 1001) in about 24 feet of water.

As we cruised to yet another area around 11:00am, we began to see nature come to life — some terns began to fly and search for food, buzzards began to soar, and we saw deer moving around the lake edge (very unusual for 11am). I felt a window was beginning to open as the stiff NW breeze relented and the sky began to get a bit hazy.

As we idled over Area 1077, for the first time all day I saw schooled gamefish near bottom in a feeding posture, about 5 inches up off the bottom and tightly clustered in 20-22 feet of water. We got on these fish and boated 11 white bass in short order before the small school disbanded and we had to go looking again. These fish came on TNT180’s in white, 3/4 oz.

We connected with one more white bass at Area 327 in 27 feet of water.

Then we got into one final patch of fish which were spread more horizontally at ~27-29 feet deep at Area 1177. We worked our slabs vertically as we had elsewhere, only this time something a bit unusual happened. Bob felt an odd sensation as he jigged and began to reel in his slab. As it reached the surface, I saw it was caught on heavy monofilament line (we were all using braid). So, I reached down to untangle his hook from the line and then began winding the line around my hand when suddenly, IT PULLED BACK!. I kept on winding and it kept on pulling, and, in about 35 seconds we saw a live ~14″ hybrid come to the surface. It was hooked with a large, ~3/0 galvanized hook with a 2 oz. sinker threaded onto the line about 18 inches up. The hook was way down in the fish’s gullet, so, I used diagonal cutting pliers to cut the hook off without causing further harm and we released the hybrid, now free of the extra baggage he’d been towing around for who knows how long. The fish looked plenty healthy enough — I guess he adapted. We picked up 5 more white bass here and that was all she wrote. 6 1/2 hours for 19 fish — (not including the hybrid) — ouch!!

TALLY = 19 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:
Start Time: 6:45a

End Time: 1:10p

Air Temp: 32F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~53F

Wind: Winds were NNW11, tapering to light and variable by noon.

Skies: Skies were bluebird slowly changing to fair by mid-day.

Two Very Different Perspectives — Texas White Bass Fishing Guide Report — 34 Fish, 04 March 2013






This morning I fished with Pat W. of Austin who was once again given a fishing gift certificate by his in-laws this past Christmas. This was Pat’s second trip out with me.


Fishing was tough today, but, persistence paid off and we were able to string together a catch of 34 fish for our efforts.

The very first thing Pat said when we shook hands this morning was, “Well, I’m a dad now.” He was obviously very proud of baby George, now just 20 weeks young. Did I mention that Pat looked sleep-deprived?

Well, the fishing was tough today. We had what the weatherman calls pre-frontal compressional warming which means that the atmosphere gets “squeezed” by the weather we are experiencing now and a cold front on it’s way in. This results in warm, windy days and typically tough conditions. In a normal 4.5 to 5 hour trip, I expect about 90 minutes of really solid fishing with a ramp up to that and a ramp down from that. Today, our window was compressed into about 50 minutes of fishing, between 8:30 and 9:20pm. We caught two-thirds of our catch during this time. We noted that this was the only time we witnessed birds (terns and gulls) flying and feeding today, as well.

This bit of success came at Area 1174 in only 14-16 feet of water (the shallowest I’ve fished so far this year) and via a horizontal approach as we used bladebaits to work out away from the boat.

After this, we dropped back into deeper water and just “pecked” a few fish here and a few fish there. Everything we found was within a few yards of the Lampasas River channel. It is interesting to note that today’s take of 34 fish included 5 crappie and 1 largemouth bass, which is an unusually high percentage of crappie.

For me, coming off of two 100+ fish days at the end of last week, I was really hoping to put together some better numbers for Pat. I was really working to find fish, studying sonar closely, trying different areas, and put about 2 extra hours into the trip. Pat, on the other hand was enjoying a gift, nowhere near his barking dog or crying baby son, and certainly not at the office. While I had my face anxiously buried in the sonar screens, Pat had his head rested back on the console and his feet up as I slowly idled over potential fish holding bottom features — truly two very different perspectives.

Well, I just hate to send anyone home on a “dry spell”, meaning have them leave after not catching many fish toward the end of the trip so their final impression not as good as it could be, so, we scrubbed 3 different areas in the last 45 minutes on the water until we found one small pack of white bass near Area 401 and we worked those fish over until we nearly “willed” one to strike Pat’s slab so he could drive back to Austin with a good final memory from our day’s adventure. With that fish added to the tally, we closed out our trip with 34 fish boated today.


TALLY = 34 fish, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:


Start Time: 6:45a

End Time: 1:30p

Air Temp: 57F at trip’s start

Water Surface Temp: ~56F

Wind: Winds were SSW17 at trip’s start slowly tapering off to SSW11. Today’s weather was due to pre-frontal compressional warming.

Skies: Skies were light grey with high, thin clouds .