This past Thursday morning, 14 April, I fished with a four-man party from Bagliore Concrete out of Jarrell, Texas.  Aboard were Tony Bagliore, Scott Kearsing, Josh Torres, and Josh Grooms.

Tony Bagliore took the largest hybrid landed aboard my boat thus far this 2016 season.  This fish weighed in at 6.25 pounds and beat out 3 other fish which each weighed 5.25 pounds for top honors.

Thanks to the consistency and predictability of the bite, we invested our first hour fishing for white bass in shallow water ranging from 12 to 15 feet deep. Actively feeding laughing gulls clearly pointed the way to actively feeding fish pushing shad to the surface. We fished this area until 8:50 AM, boating a total of 26 fish consisting of white bass in the one, two, and three year class, with a single large mouth bass and a couple of short hybrid thrown in. As the fish wrapped up their feed, the birds slacked off and began to rest on the surface. We packed up and headed for deep water in search of hybrid stripers.

We fished three deep water areas beginning around 9:15a through 11:30a.  Fish were small and sparse at our first stop.  Our second stop, in roughly 42 feet of water, produced 6 keeper hybrid before numerous small fish invaded the area.

We moved to our third and final area, also in 42 feet of water, with deeper water nearby.  Just up onto the flat from the breakline, we encountered a strong showing of what appeared to be hybrid striper on sonar. Our suspicions were confirmed within seconds of getting live baits down amongst these fish. We enjoyed a solid hour of catching legal & sub-legal hybrid striper on live threadfin shad.

During this feeding spree, Tony Bagliore landed the largest hybrid of the season thus far — a 6.25 pounder. Previously, three 5.25 pound fish had tied for top honors.

We ended our day right at 11:30 so the crew could get back to work selling and pouring concrete. Our final count stood at 68 fish.

 

TALLY: 68 Fish, all caught and released

 

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 7:45a

End Time:  11:30

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 54F

Water Surface Temp:  66.1F

Wind Speed & Direction:  Winds were WNW8-9 most of the trip.

Sky Conditions:  100% grey skies for the entire trip.

Water Level: 594.57 and falling with 594.0 being full pool.  Water being released at 765 cubic feet per second.  Lake fell 0.06 feet in the past 24 hours

Other: GT= 155

 

Wx Snapshot:

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area  1735-1736 – 1, 2, and 3 year class white bass under birds in shallow water
**Area  vic 1288 – slow fishing for small hybrid and a few white bass

**Area vic  1079 – good results on keeper hybrid, then small fish moved in

**Area 1737 – excellent results on keeper hybrid

 

Bob Maindelle

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