Happy 29th Anniversary! — Belton Lake Fishing Guide Report: 116 Fish, 21 Nov. 2013

This morning I fished
with George and Sharon F. of Temple celebrating their 29th wedding anniversary on this day!

We enjoyed a nice mix of quality and quantity today with several legal hybrid striped bass boated on jigging spoons in addition to great numbers of white bass and short hybrids.

29 year of wedded bliss or not, Mrs. Sharon did not give George any slack.  If he was going to land nice hybrids, so was she!!!

George is a retired U.S. Army Aviation NCO who now works in the Veterans’ Administration, and Sharon is a retired CPA who worked for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture out of the Temple, TX, office.  They were a really pleasant couple to fish with and enjoyed every fish they caught, whether big or small.

Our morning started off slowly under a blanket of fog as the dewpoint and ambient temperature hung together for the first 2 hours following our “delayed opening” at 7:30 which was 30 minutes after sunrise instead of the usual 15 minutes before sunrise.

As the obscured sun brightened the sky ever so slightly, I used GPS to navigate to areas which have been productive lately.  As I did, we would arrive at an area, take a “look and listen” stop observing both sonar and for any bird or fish activity, and then respond accordingly. 

We fished 3 different areas today and at each area had to “short-hop” at that locale to keep up with the action as the gamefish pushed the shad around fairly aggressively.

Vertical jigging was the name of the game today, with ample easing and smoking variations thrown in with good success.  As usual, the TNT180 (white, 3/4 oz) did the best job of matching the forage we observed the gulls snatching out of the water and the fish regurgitating.

We got to talking about George and Sharon’s previous fishing experiences and they told me about a memorable trip they’d taken on Richland-Chambers Reservoir in May during which they caught 101 fish.  We’ll I just couldn’t let that slide, so, we stuck with it until we’d surpassed that previous personal best and sent them home with 116 fish under their belts.

TALLY = 116 FISH, all caught and released

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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 7:30a
End Time: 12:00noon

Air Temp: 67F at trip’s start.

Water Surface Temp: 65.3F 

Wind:
Winds were SSE7 at trip’s start, building to SSE14 by trip’s end.


Skies: 100% fogged in until 7:30a, then gradual clearing to 90% cloudy by 10a.

Other Notes: GT=5


Areas Fished with success:

**  187/294/098 (30G/12T)
**  1293 (30G/20T)

**  1294 (15T)
**  1277/683



Bob Maindelle

Holding the Line Guide Service

254-368-7411
www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com

Salado, Texas

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