This morning I welcomed aboard Cody and Dylan C. of Nolanville, and Cody’s friend, Michael, also of Nolanville. The boys were treated to a fishing trip for Cody’s 16th birthday by Grandpa Dave D. of Hawaii. This was a reunion of sorts, as all three boys joined me for a Spring Break outing in 2009, as well.

The boys display the 6 largest white bass taken on our outing today; the largest went 14 1/8 inches.

We began the morning with a bit of flatline trolling along the circuit from Area 743 to Area 741, and picked up only 3 white bass with little else in the way of fish or bait showing on sonar.

We headed to troll the circuit from Area 713 to Area 733 and did better, boating 9 fish in as many passes until noting some surface action here (BA: 2 HG). We headed to the area of the disturbance and studied sonar, finding abundant white bass scattered along the bottom here in ~17′. We vertical jigged and smoked these fish, boating 19 in about 40 minutes’ time until they cooled off.

We then headed to troll the Area 114 to 703 to 319 circuit, and picked up two more, but action was slow there.

We made one last move to Area 744 where we smoked and jigged for the remainder of our fish (23 of them to be exact) in about 21′.

This was an ideal trip for kids as we never went for any lengthy spells without catching fish and were able to use several hands-on tactics to boat the fish we did.

Thank you, Grandpa Dave, for a nice Spring Break birthday treat!!

TALLY = 54 FISH

Today’s Conditions:

Start Time: 7:30a

End Time: 11:30a

Starting Air Temp: 60F

Water Surface Temp: 61.2F

Wind: S11-13

Skies: Overcast.