This morning I fished with John Hauck, home on a bit of leave time from Afghanistan.
John is a retired Army officer who is now employed by DynCorp International. In this capacity, John now advises friendly Afghan nationals on logistics management. John is well-traveled. The tales of his multiple visits to Honduras, which always included some open ocean SCUBA action, were of particular interest to me. We’d traipsed some of the same ground in northern Europe, so, comparing notes there was fun, too.
Today was day 7 of an amazingly consistent run of topwater action on both white bass and largemouth bass on Stillhouse. This action has been so consistent that John and I were actually sitting in place just yards from where the first visible signs of topwater feeding first broke out.
We were able to stay in the largemouth bass for about 2 hours throwing topwater hardbaits to fool these schoolies which ran anywhere from 13 to 15 inches or so — very energetic strikes and entertaining aerobatics after the hookup! This took place between Areas 061 and 1096.
After the largemouth were done abusing the shad, it was the white bass’ turn. From 8:50 to 9:20 (we had to pull the plug early so John could make a doctor’s appointment) we caught nearly a fish per cast catching white bass in both the 1 and 2 year class on bladebaits between Areas 204, 205, and 484.
That was it!! Not much moving, not much searching, not much fuel burned, just casting and catching to the tune of 85 fish for our efforts.
TALLY = 85 FISH
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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:
Start Time: 6:15a
End Time: 9:30a
Air Temp: 76F at trip’s start.
Water Surface Temp: 83-84F
Wind: Winds were SSW6-8.
Bob Maindelle
Holding the Line Guide Service
254-368-7411
www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com
Salado, Texas