Don’t Know Where They Found the Time to Work! — 47 Fish, Austin Fishing Guide Report, 17 Sep. 2013






This morning I fished with a very nice retired couple, Bill and Beth B., who live out near Moffat, TX.



Bill and Beth with the best of the bunch of the 47 fish we boated today.

Bill with his 11th hour “triple” — 3 fish caught at the same time!!

First and foremost, Bill and Beth are followers of Christ and part of Temple Bible Church in Temple, TX. They lead a small group Bible study in their home weekly, and Bill, as both part of his ministry and his retirement business, helps people who are struggling with budgeting and debt work through their money problems using biblical principles. We had a good bit in common, so, even in the early part of the trip when the fishing was a bit slow, we enjoyed one another’s company and conversation. This couple is enjoying a very full, active retirement. Bill kidded that he’s so busy now, he doesn’t know where he found the time to work when he did so!

Beth, like me, is an “Army-brat” who actually graduated from Kaiserslautern High School in Germany, the same place where I attended Kindergarten through 3rd Grade.

The fishing definitely started off slow today. We had a light ESE wind and an obscured sunrise thanks to cloud cover spinning off from Hurricane Ingrid down in Mexico. By 9am we’d only boated 12 fish, which is the second slowest start I’ve encountered all summer.

Around 9am, although the skies remained clouded, the sun’s angle was sufficient to brighten the sky through the clouds, and the light winds picked up a bit and went SE at 7-8. This combination of light and wind was enough to light the fuze on what would turn out to be a solid 90 minutes of good fishing. During this time we encountered terns and a single cormorant working over top of topwater feeding fish forcing shad to the surface. This made keeping up with active schools of fish easier than just relying on electronics alone. We ignored the few fish up high to cash in on the much greater numbers of fish lurking in the lower third of the water column by working with slabs and bladebaits. We took our tally up to 37 fish during this feeding time — still not white-hot fishing, but steady and productive.

By 10:40 as the feed was tapering off, so, we turned to our downriggers to comb out the few still-active fish from among the inactive majority. This accounted for 10 more fish, including an end-of-trip triple (3 fish caught at the same time on each of the 3 lures on a 3 armed umbrella rig) for Bill. By 11:40, it was all over.


TALLY = 47 FISH, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS:

Start Time: 7:15a

End Time: 11:40a

Air Temp: 75F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: 85.5F

Wind: Winds were SE4-8.

Skies: 80% cloudy but still bright enough to have to squint.

Areas Fished:

**1246/909/1241 downrigging

**859-1253 smoke and blades

**196 and drop to east downrigging


Bob Maindelle

Holding the Line Guide Service

254-368-7411

www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Salado, Texas