CSA Construction Assembles a Nice Catch –146 Fish

WHO I FISHED WITH: Today I fished with Mr. Ray Elliott, Mr. Drew Kelm, and Miss Jessie Singleton.  Ray and Drew are co-workers at CSA Construction out of Houston and are working on a 3-year-long project building a drinking water treatment plant on Stillhouse Hollow Reservoir.  They thought they’d take in some local fishing since they’ll be in the area for while.  Jessie is Drew’s fiancee’, and quite an outdoorsy young lady. Hopefully her dad will demand a sizeable dowry for her, as she is not only an Aggie, but has earned her concealed handgun license, can run a boat, handle a spinning rod deftly, can drive (and park) the largest of pickup trucks, and outrun all of the 4th grade boys in her elementary school classroom! The two plan to wed in June ’18.

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From left, Jessie Singleton, Ray Elliott, and Drew Kelm with a sampling of the mixed bag angling we experienced on Belton Lake this morning.  We landed white bass, hybrid striped bass, largemouth bass, freshwater drum, and crappie.  Judging by the slime on his line,  we think Ray missed a catfish, and we know by the quarter-sized scale on Drew’s hook that he missed a buffalo fish.

 

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We found a few crappie — all quality fish, and, strangely enough they all came out of in excess of 50 feet of water with no cover visible on sonar.

WHAT WE FISHED FOR: This was a multi-species trip focused on white bass.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Saturday morning, 11 November 2017

HOW WE FISHED: Thanks to thick cloud cover, the started a bit later than over the past several days with thinner cover which let a bit more sunlight through.  We fished 4 distinct areas.  Our first area involved vertical jigging with white slabs in ~35′.  At our second area, birds led the way to the action as ~ 8 gulls, 1 tern, 3 comorants, and 1 blue heron all worked a 2 acre area in which white bass were feeding heavily on shad.  Although some action did make it all the way to the surface, most was subsurface.  We used slabs vertically and bladebaits horizontally in this situation.  Our third and fourth areas fished were nearly identical with fish on deep, wind-impacted slopes in ~50 feet of water.

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES: 1) A wind with a southerly component returned today.  2) We caught fish under birds for a 4th consecutive day, however, the action did not begin until about an hour after sunrise today.

TALLY: 146 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:40a

End Time: 11:45a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 58F

Water Surface Temp: 67.1F

Wind Speed & Direction: ESE9-13

Sky Conditions: 100% heavy grey cloud cover

Water Level: 2.25 feet low

GT = 105

Wx SNAPSHOT:

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AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 2044 – vertical work with slabs for a smaller school of white bass congregated on bottom in 35′

**Area 2045/2043 – horizontal blades and vertical slabs in 15-18′ for fish under birds

**Area vic 1945 & 1381 – deep vertical slab work for fish on windward slopes in 50+ feet of water.

 

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

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Belton Boy Battles Buffalo (and 106 other fish, too)!

 

WHO I FISHED WITH: Today I fished with Steve Niemeier of Temple and his grandson, Caleb Fowler, age 12, of Belton. Steve makes his living as a certified pubic accountant, and Caleb is a 6th grade student at one of the Belton middle schools where he’s currently playing football as a defensive lineman.

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As we grew accustomed to the sporty, but lighter pull of multiple white bass on the light spinning tackle we were using, Caleb got a rude awakening when this 9.25 pound smallmouth buffalo came knocking.

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We definitely had to work for our catch today.  Although we amassed a tally of 107 fish, we had to stop at 10 distinct areas (each of which gave up at least a few fish) to do it.  Here Steve Neimeier and Caleb Fowler show some of the 2015-spawned crop of fish we landed.

WHAT WE FISHED FOR: This was a multi-species trip focused on white bass.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Friday morning, 10 November 2017

HOW WE FISHED:  The raw weather brought in by the cold front that came in on Tuesday and kept winds northerly on Wednesday and Thursday moderated a bit today.  We had slightly warmer temperatures, ENE winds, and persistent grey cloud cover.  The same general areas and habitats that have been producing this week continued to produce, but the fish were definitely more reluctant to feed today.  We had very limited success going horizontal with bladebaits under lowlight conditions, and often had to “re-ignite” fish that had begun chasing smoked slabs and then quit doing so.  We did this by using an easing tactic, getting the struggling, hooked fish up above its schoolmates, and then observing sonar to see if they followed the hooked fish upwards.  If they did, a more aggressive smoking tactic would then produce once more.

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES: 1) The number of birds on Belton continues to increase. 2) Once again, birds led the way to the morning’s first catch.  3) The wind shift to the east definitely put a damper on the fish activity.  4) We made 10 different stops to put together our 107 fish tally; no single spot just gave up a lot of fish.

TALLY: 107 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:40a

End Time: 10:50a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 49F

Water Surface Temp: 66.5F

Wind Speed & Direction: ENE6-7

Sky Conditions: 100% heavy grey cloud cover

Water Level: 2.25 feet low

GT = 40

Wx SNAPSHOT:

10NOV17

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area  1573, vic 525-526, 2039, vic 2037-163 – low light vertical jigging under birds for 40 fish

**Area  2040 and 2041 – sluggish whites in 42′ – 13 fish

**Area vic 2027 – most active fish of the trip, 34′ – 33 fish

**Area 2042 – 10 fish

**Area 2041 (again) – 11 fish

 

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

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Fishing Belton with Dave & Stephanie Covington — 82 Fish

WHO I FISHED WITH: Today I fished with Dave and Stephanie Covington of Belton, TX.  Dave makes his living as part of his family’s real estate business (Covington Real Estate, Inc. on Main St. in Belton).  He has been out with me twice before, once with his brother, Barrett, and once with his then 5-year-old son, Levi.  This was Stephanie’s first trip with me.  I could tell right off the bat that cold, dark, damp early mornings in the outdoors were not particularly high on Stephanie’s list of fun things to do, but, she was a trooper and a good student, and did very well this morning.

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Hybrid, birds, and bait were a winning combination this morning.  The first significant number of migratory gulls and terns arrived with this strong cold front and immediately began to assist in the fish-finding equation.  Here, Dave and Stephanie hold hybrid landed seconds apart as we fished under birds.

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The white bass were in a much more active mode right at (obscured) sunrise this morning.  We caught them on bladebaits fished horizontally and slabs fished vertically.

WHAT WE FISHED FOR: This was a multi-species trip focused on white bass.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Thursday morning, 09 November 2017

HOW WE FISHED:  With continued cold, cloudy, breezy conditions, the white bass and hybrid striper put the feed bag on once again this morning right at sunrise (obscured).  We found fish shallower (20-25′) early on under birds and amassed a catch of 40 fish, half on blades and half on slabs (smoked).  After this shallow water bite died we moved on to deeper water where white bass in the 0-2 year classes just carpeted the bottom in 34-38 feet and fell for smoked slabs.  The small 3/8 oz. bait in white with a Hazy Eye Stinger hook attached was all that was needed.  The fish were so aggressive that Stephanie actually caught 2 fish on one lure at the same time.

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES: 1) The number of birds on Belton continues to increase. 2) Once again, birds led the way to the morning’s first catch.  3) Stephanie had enough of the cold at the 2.5 hour mark, hence a lower tally than over the past few days, with 82 landed this morning; the indicators were all in place for a morning of at least 100 fish had we gone the full 4 hours.

TALLY: 82 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:40a

End Time: 9:15a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 43F

Water Surface Temp: 68.4F

Wind Speed & Direction: N13 at (obscured) sunrise, tapering quickly back to N9 for the remainder of the trip

Sky Conditions: 100% heavy grey cloud cover

Water Level: 2.22 feet low

GT = 50

Wx SNAPSHOT:

09NOV17

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 818 and 2037 – blades and smoked slabs in under 25′ for 40 fish

**Area 211 – smoked slabs in 34-38′ for 42 fish

 

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

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105 FISH THIS MORNING — WET WEATHER GEAR REQUIRED!!!

WHO I FISHED WITH: Today I fished with Clay Lohse of Abileen, TX.  This was Clay’s 3rd trip with me this year.  Clay is a husband and father who works as a nurse and is studying to become a nurse practitioner through a master’s degree program.  He is very much a student of fishing, working on understanding fish behavior and seasonal movements and locations in order to become a better fisherman.  We spent 20 or 30 minutes before launching this morning pouring over a map of his “home” lake, Fort Phantom Hill Reservoir, in the cab of his truck by flashlight, and theorizing where fish might hold through the seasons.

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It’s cold.  It’s raining.  Why is this man smiling?    BECAUSE WE LANDED 105 FISH IN THIS SNOTTY WEATHER!!!

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White bass were biting, short hybrid were biting, largemouth were biting — and we were the only ones on the entirety of Belton’s 13,000 acres this morning.  Loved it!!

WHAT WE FISHED FOR: This was a multi-species trip focused on white bass.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Wednesday morning, 08 November 2017

HOW WE FISHED:  Long story short — the fishing was definitely cold front-impacted early on.  The bite steadily gained momentum to a peak around 11am.  We began having to fish very slowly and methodically for fish mostly unwilling to chase a bait; by the end of the trip, a full-speed smoking retrieve did the trick.  At 11am, we sat at 55 fish, but were over top of a large school of very willing white bass sprinkled with a few hybrid.  I told Clay we’d give it 45 minutes to catch 45 fish and take our tally to 100 or more.   We (literally) caught fish at a rate of 1 per minute in the last 45 minutes of the trip, and ended the day with 105 fish.  We eased early on, then threw blades for small, well-spread bottom-oriented schools in ~25 feet of water.  After that, we moved deeper and used slabs with Hazy Eyes Stingers attached for the remainder of the trip, fishing 36 to 52 feet at 4 separate locations.

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES: 1) We enjoyed this fall’s first fishing under birds this morning with action under ring-billed gulls. 2) The fishing improved steadily as the morning progressed.  3) Opaque white far outperformed silver under the grey, low-light conditions.

TALLY: 105 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:50a

End Time: 11:45a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 51F and falling to 41F throughout the trip thanks to a slow moving, damp cold front that began moving in yesterday.

Water Surface Temp: 68.4F

Wind Speed & Direction: NNW12-13, gusting to 19

Sky Conditions: 100% heavy grey cloud cover with light, steady rain beginning around 10am

Water Level: 2.19 feet low

GT = 50

Wx SNAPSHOT: N/A

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area vic 2032 – limited early morning success on suspended small fish over 30′

**Area 2036 – sluggish, heavily schooled white bass on this timbered, slow tapering underwater point

**Area vic1819 – better action on heavily congregated white bass holding on upwind side of the slope in 36′

**Area  717 – massive school of mixed white bass from 0-3 years in same location and at same time as yesterday, 52′

**Area 212/1392 – found lots of fish, but they wouldn’t “stay put” even with thumper and jigging/catching commotion

**Area 211 – grand finale with over 50 fish caught in 45 minutes in 36′ during a lull in the rain and wind

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

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202 FISH DURING “FISHING 101” COURSE!

WHO I FISHED WITH: Today I fished with Chris Lester and Mike White, both of whom work at the Blackland Research and Extension Center in Temple.  They are both husbands, dads with 10-year-old boys, pontoon boat owners, and, according to them, in need of a little instruction on successfully pursuing fish on Lake Belton. They were interested in seeing how all of the components come together, including boat, sonar, trolling motor, and bait selection and presentation — kind of a “Fishing 101”.

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With action like this under the boat all morning, it took only 5 hours to put 202 fish in the boat.  The steady action on aggressive fish was fueled by the incoming cold front, grey cloud cover, and good breeze.  There were several hundred fish in this school which fed hard for over an hour.

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By the time we got to fish number 40, Mike said, “I think that is more fish than the two of us have caught on Belton in our lifetimes, combined!!”.

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As often happens when fishing over top of a large school of fish for an extended period of time, during which time feces and regurgitated baitfish sink to the bottom after being voided/vomited by hooked fish, bottom feeders like buffalo, drum, and catfish eventually show up.  This smallmouth buffalo fell for Mike’s slab.

WHAT WE FISHED FOR: This was a multi-species trip focused on white bass.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Tuesday morning, 07 November 2017

HOW WE FISHED: With Daylight Saving Time now concluded, we began at 6:40a.  I searched shallow water first (under 18 feet) to no avail.  Next, I moved on to some gently sloping terrain on the north side of the lake, where the wind had been impacting up until it shifted in the early hours of the morning.  I found ample schools of white bass in 36-40 feet of water in two separate, but similar, areas.  I “spot hopped” twice at the first area and fished just one hover at the second area.  This yielded 106 fish by 8:50am.  We them moved to the south shore (wind impacted) and found smallish, suspended schools of white bass and short hybrid working bait at 12-20 feet deep over a 34 foot bottom.  A smoking retrieve did the trick for these fish, as it did for the first batch we encountered.  Our final stop of the day came in 49-51 feet of water where the single largest school of fish I’ve observed so far this fall fed and fed and fed, allowing us to take our tally to exactly 202 fish landed before we called it a day at the 5 hour mark around 11:45am.

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES: 1) No helpful bird action yet.  2) This was very easy pre-frontal fishing with fish activity spurred on by the change of wind and weather.

TALLY: 202 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 6:40a

End Time: 11:45a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 69F and falling throughout the trip thanks to a slow moving cold front easing into the area on a north wind

Water Surface Temp: 70.9F

Wind Speed & Direction: N8, slowly increasing to N13-14 by trip’s end

Sky Conditions: 100% thin, grey cloud cover – not quite enough light coming through to force you to squint.

Water Level: 2.15 feet low

GT = 40

Wx SNAPSHOT:

07NOV17

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area  vic 957 – smoking for aggressive fish, followed by easing when the fish settled down

**Area  2035 – smoking for aggressive fish, followed by easing when the fish settled down

**Area  2034 – smoking with extra handle turns to get the bait to and past suspended fish at 12-20 feet over a 34′ bottom.

**Area  717 – massive school of mixed white bass from 0-3 years, with ~20% short hybrid in the mix

 

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

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Hybrid See, Hybrid Do! — 150 FISH on Lake Belton, 04 Nov. ’17

WHO I FISHED WITH:   Today I fished with Tearanie (pronounced like the word “tyranny”) Hoyle and his girlfriend, Angela Smith.  Angela treated Tearanie to this trip on the occasion of his 40th birthday.  Tearanie recently retired from the U.S. Army after 20 years of service, primarily as a mechanic supporting logistics units.  Angela, a Killeen native and Killeen High School grad, is a nursing professor at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (UMHB) in Belton.

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BAD EXAMPLE!  This 3-year old hybrid was not setting a good example for his 1-year old cousin and wound up getting them both in trouble.  Hybrid see, hybrid do!!

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Although we caught plenty of white bass smaller than these, some quality white bass did show up in today’s catch under ideal breezy, grey sky conditions.

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Umm, Angela.  I don’t think you’re supposed to catch the largest fish of the trip when you take your boyfriend out fishing for his birthday.  Just sayin’.

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Catchin’ two-at-a-time!  That’s Crazy Town!  (a little inside humor there)

 

WHAT WE FISHED FOR: This was a multi-species trip focused on white bass.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Saturday morning, 04 November 2017

HOW WE FISHED:   The fish began feeding around 8:00am and didn’t stop until about 11:45a.  All of our fish were caught on gently sloping terrain in 36-43 feet of water.  We simply let the Spot Lock feature on the Ulterra do its thing, hovering us over top of these fish, and worked single slabs for slower, less aggressive fish and tandem rigs for more aggressive fish for a grand total of 150 fish in just under 4.5 hours.  We caught all of these fish from just 4 locations. 

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES: 1) I saw the first gulls of the fall today — only 8 of them (and they didn’t help us find fish), but, it’s a start.  2) All of the fish we caught stayed in the lower third of the water column in 36-43 feet of water; even fish chasing hooked schoolmates would not rise above this level. 3) The school size of white bass is increasing as smaller schools merge and form into fewer, larger schools.  The schools I encountered on sonar today easily numbered 200+ individuals as clearly seen with down- and side-imaging technology on the Humminbird Solix 15.

TALLY: 150 FISH, all caught and released (1 crappie, 1 largemouth bass, 3 drum, and a mix of 145 white bass and hybrid stripers of various year groups)

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 7:30a

End Time: 12:00 noon

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start:  72F

Water Surface Temp:   70.9F

Wind Speed & Direction:   S8-11 the entire trip

Sky Conditions:  100% thin, grey cloud cover –  enough light coming through to force you to squint.

Water Level: 2.15 feet low

GT = 0

Wx SNAPSHOT:

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AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area vic 1008 – caught 90 fish here by 9:45a in 2 “short hops” in same general vicinity

**Area 2033 – 20 fish

**Area 930/717 – 18 fish

**Area 1392 – 22 fish

 

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

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A Gentleman and a Scholar (and a Surgeon, and a Vocalist, and …) — 75 Fish

WHO I FISHED WITH:   Today I fished with retired US Navy Captain and flight surgeon Ray Johnson of Harker Heights, TX, age 77.  Ray is originally from Oklahoma. This was Ray’s 16th trip with me since his first time on my boat in December of 2012.

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Ray Johnson with one of many “doubles” we took today using the Hazy Eye Shad Tandem Rig.  The primary bait is a 3/4 oz. slab, and the teaser is a white shad imitator of my own making.

WHAT WE FISHED FOR: This was a multi-species trip focused on white bass.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Friday morning, 03 November 2017

HOW WE FISHED:   The fish we in a lackadaisical mood for most of the morning this morning.  We never saw a single gamefish feed on top; no birds were working; and what congregations of fish we found were small in number and belly to bottom. As the skies brightened and the wind increased, the bite improved.  We used single slabs to get fish going and Hazy Eye Shad Tandem Rigs to capitalize once the fish came up off bottom to investigate the commotion caused by the first few we hooked from each school we encountered.  We caught well at 5 areas, after stopping and checking over a dozen locations.

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES: As it often does, the bite improved with rising wind speeds through about 12 noon, after which the bite shut down.

TALLY: 75 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 7:45a

End Time: 12:30p

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start:  72F

Water Surface Temp:   70F

Wind Speed & Direction:   Light and variable at trip’s start, tapering up to S8-9 by trip’s end

Sky Conditions:  80% grey cloud cover at trip’s start; slowly clearing to 50% by trip’s end

Water Level: 2.13 feet low

GT = 0

Wx SNAPSHOT:

03NOV17

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area vic 1916

**Area vic 1269

**Area vic 1747

**Area 1299

**Area 1819-2027

 

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ALL THE WAY FROM OREGON FOR A HYBRID — 77 Fish, Belton, 30 Oct.

WHO I FISHED WITH:   I fished with Mr. Brian House of Killeen, his 9-year-old daughter, Claudia House, and Claudia’s grandfather on her mom’s side, Mr. David Peyton from near Salem, Oregon.  At age 69, David commented that this was one of his top 3 most memorable fishing trips, both in terms of the quantity of fish we caught, and due to the fact that he caught both a white bass and a hybrid striped bass for the first time.

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David Peyton of Oregon caught the first hybrid striper of his life during his week-long stay in Killeen to visit kids and grandkids.

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From left: Three generations shared in the catching today including Brian House, Claudia House, and David Peyton.

WHAT WE FISHED FOR: This was a multi-species trip focused on white bass.

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED: Monday morning, 30 October 2017

HOW WE FISHED:   We began our trip throwing bladebaits up shallow in under 14 feet of water using a lift-drop tactic for fish that were holding on or near bottom.  We landed 4 fish and missed about as many in about 25 minutes’ worth of effort.  The fish were definitely not really turned on thanks, in part, to the nearly calm winds.  After leaving the shallows behind, we looked with sonar and gave deep, vertical jigging a try at a number of areas.  Two of these areas produced very well, the first (Area 1619-1620) produced white bass from 0-2 years from out of 26 feet of water.  The second area to produce well in nearly 45 feet of water was Area 1550.  By 11am, the bite was dying hard, allowing us just one more fish at area 993, for a grand total of 77 fish on the morning.

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES: As it often does, the bite improved with rising wind speeds through about 11am when the morning bite wound down.

TALLY: 77 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 7:25a

End Time: 12:10p

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start:  65F

Water Surface Temp:   67.9 to 69F

Wind Speed & Direction:   Light and variable at trip’s start, tapering up to S12 by trip’s end

Sky Conditions:  80-100% grey cloud cover all day

Water Level: 2.04 feet low

GT = 65

Wx SNAPSHOT:  N/A

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 1821 – casting shallow blades for 4 whites

**Area 1619-1620 – vertical work for 19 fish in 25-26′

**Area vic 1550 – two short hops using vertical slabbing for 53 fish in ~45′

**Area 993 – 1 add’l white bass on vertical slabbing

 

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

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