I fished with Greg and Meagan Uzee this afternoon. The Uzee’s are a young married couple transplanted to Temple, TX, from Louisiana where they met at Louisiana College.
As often happens in the winter, we caught this largemouth out of a school of white bass. I believe the largemouth “ghost” along with the school and eat smaller fish from out of the school as the white bass wander the lake in search of shad. It’s a fish-eat-fish world out there!
Greg and Meagan are both now working at Scott and White Hospital in Temple. Meagan bought Greg a fishing gift certificate last fall and today was the day to cash it in. We chose the afternoon due to a forecast for fog and N. wind this morning, and that was a good call. We found fish at 3 separate areas today from 55 feet deep early to 29 feet deep late. When all was said and done we’d boated 32 white bass, 2 drum, and 1 largemouth. Despite the fact that Greg had more experience (he was good), Megan, shall we say, more than held her own (she was lucky)! Which is better? I’ll let you decide. Thanks for a great trip, guys!
DETAILS:
We found fish at Area 946 and 947 around 2:30-3:30 in ~55 feet of water and vertical jigged for these fish with 3/4 oz. TNT180 slabs in white. Our conditions today were less than favorable with a N and E component to the wind for much of the trip, and light winds for the duration of the trip. Once we pulled all the fish off of these areas that would go for our offering, I moved us downlake in search of fish but we came up with nothing.
We returned to Area 947 and picked up a few more fish around 4:45p and then headed back uplake.
We definitely encountered more birds uplake but found most of the birds were feeding over the numerous loons now calling the lake home for the winter. We did find one more patch of fish right on Area 572 in 29 feet of water and found them much more interested in an easing technique than in a standard jigging technique.
We fished right until the bite ended a few minutes after sunset and then took some photos, so this photo came out a bit grainy due to the failing light.
TALLY = 35 Fish
TODAY’S CONDITIONS:
Start Time: 1:30p
End Time: 6:10p
Air Temp: 63F at trip’s start.
Water Surface Temp: 52F
Wind: Changing steadily from ENE to ESE over the course of the trip.
Skies: Bright grey the entire time with partial clearing around 4:30.