12 AUGUST 2008






This is one of 5 reports for a 5 day vacation trip made to Canyon Lake, TX from M-F, 11-15 August, 2008.

WEEK’S SUMMARY:

To summarize the weather, Monday was heavily overcast and unseasonably comfortable up until around 11:00am when the thick blanket of clouds burned off. By that evening the temperatures had climbed back to mid-August norms with partly cloudy skies and hot, humid conditions.

On Tuesday, we woke to rain and occasional lightning right up until around 2pm. The skies then cleared out and again, by that evening the temperatures had climbed back to mid-August norms with partly cloudy skies and hot, humid conditions.

Wednesday and Thursday were photocopies of one another, with fair skies, unobscured sunrise and sunset, and hot, nearly windless conditions during the day with temps in the high nineties.

Friday was much like Monday with heavily overcast skies and unseasonably comfortable up until around 11:00am when the thick blanket of clouds burned off. By that evening the temperatures had climbed back to mid-August norms with partly cloudy skies and hot, humid conditions and a light SE breeze with thunderheads building in the SE.

In reviewing the entire week, morning success far exceeded evening success, and Areas 230 and 224 were by far the most productive during that morning time.


TUESDAY’S REPORT

We awoke to thunderstorms and much needed rain this morning. This allowed only for an afternoon trip. I got on the water around 6pm and fished until 9pm. Shortly after launching, I noted topwater feeding schools of white bass despite the brightening, nearly calm conditions.

After looking over Areas 219 and 230 for white bass and seeing little, I spotted two schools of white bass over open water over the old Guadalupe River channel. I managed 2 fish from each school, as they quickly disappeared.

There was then quite a lag in action until nearly sunset, when a good population of white bass converged on Area 224 and the adjacent point. I began jigging for these with a Rattle Snakie, but, as they moved shallower, and as some broke the surface, a horizontal approach with a cast Cicada did much better. Got 19 whites here.

TALLY TODAY: 23 FISH, all caught and released

Bob Maindelle, Owner Holding The Line Guide Service and Kids Fish, Too! Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide, Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Lake Georgetown Fishing Guide, Walter E. Long (Decker) Lake Fishing Guide. Offering Salado Fishing, Killeen Fishing and Ft. Hood Fishing








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