Fished a short, solo evening scouting trip on Belton Lake this evening. The fishing has been so consistent on Stillhouse that I haven’t made it out to Belton recently. However, knowing that all good things must come to an end, I wanted to keep my finger on the pulse here.

Start Time: 5:45p

End Time: 8:40p

Air Temp: 98F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: ~85.6F

Wind: Winds were steady from the SSE at 7-8.

Skies: Skies were bright and clear with the return of high pressure right over us.



I downrigged nearly the entire time 1) to cover water and watch sonar and 2) because I found very few fish relating to the bottom, rather, they were up suspended near bait.

Getting started, I found a lot of bait along the long breakline stretching from Area 210, through Area 472, to Area 473. The gamefish (white bass, hybrid and largemouth) were hovering off the E. facing slope a bit distant from the bait. I used twin riggers with a Pet and and Image and caught fish equally well on both telling me the bait was on the larger side. After catching my first hybrid on the Image, I switched over to twin Images. After sacking up 9 fish here (1 largemouth, 1 hybrid, 7 whites up to 14 1/8″) I moved elsewhere to explore.

Next stop came at an area triangulated by Areas 214, 474, and 475. With twin Images on the ‘riggers I had immediate and consistent success here boating 2 largemouth, 6 hybrid (all 17-19″), and 4 average white bass.

By this time, the sun was within 20 minutes of setting, so, hoping to spot some topwater white bass action, I headed out and patrolled from Area 133 over to Area 302 but found nothing doing.



TALLY = 21 FISH, all caught and released

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