Nature “Nix’ed” Us!! — 13 Fish, Stillhouse, 21 Aug. (PM Trip)

I fished a tough evening trip this evening with Mr. David Nix of Liberty Hill, Texas, and his 15 year old son, Noah. David works for State Farm insurance in Austin, and Noah is entering high school as a freshman this year. His interests lie in playing basketball, running track, and competitive swimming.  David called on short notice this past Tuesday hoping to put something together for the two of them before the school year kicked in and life got busy again.

 

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David Nix and his son, Noah, with a few of the fish we had to work extra hard tonight to get in the boat — it was a tough evening all around.

The funny thing is there’s really nothing I can point to that led to our diminished catch tonight. The winds were a bit high for the first hour, but they were slightly west of south, the pressure was high, the skies were fair, and the fishing this morning ended around the usual 10:30 to 11:00am timeframe, so the fish had plenty of time to digest their breakfast before going into an evening feed.
The fishing we experienced this evening simply lacked any consistency. We saw no topwater action, no bird action, next to no schools of white bass congregated together on sonar, very little in the way of suspended shad, and the most we caught from any area was five white bass taken from Area 1250 on horizontally worked blade baits. We also caught three fish from one fairly well defined area on downriggers late in the evening. Everything else was scattered, almost random fish on the downriggers over the course of the four plus hours on the water.
I suppose it is a good thing that we humans have not figured out every variable that makes fish tick or we would have exploited that information long ago and the world’s stocks of fish would no doubt be depleted by now as a result.  As I like to say, “There are no two fishing trips just alike.”.  Just because the fish do a certain thing in a certain time and place today is no guarantee that they will do likewise the next day or the next, even when conditions seem nearly identical.  Our trip this evening was proof of that.

TALLY = 13 FISH

 

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 3:45pm

End Time:  8:30pm

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start:  99F

Water Surface Temp:  84.8F

Wind Speed & Direction:  S14-18

Sky Conditions:  Cloudless fair skies

Other: GT=0; R=55

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area  1419 for 3 fish early and 3 more at second to last stop

**Area  1250 for 5 fish on Cicada a mid point

**Area  1231 thru 668 had abundant fish and shad but gave up only 2 fish

 

Bob Maindelle

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

254.368.7411 (call or text)

Salado, TX

www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

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