The Barfields and McHybrids Feud! — 59 Fish, Belton, 26 April 2014

This morning I fished on Belton Lake with The Barfield Family of Georgetown, Texas.  Trey and Ann were accompanied by their two sons, 15 year old Brandon, and 9 year old Jonathan.  The Barfield’s have been out with me on several occasions, but always on Stillhouse, and always targeting white bass.  Today, we headed to Belton and gunned for hybrid stripers.


 
L to R: Trey, Brandon, Jonathan, and Ann — the Barfield clan caught a mess of ’em today.



Great job, boys!

Trey and I had actually been working on finding a “just right” date to get the whole family on good hybrid since late October last year.  By the time the hybrid cranked up under the first arriving gulls in the autumn, that magic first 3 weeks of November was already booked up.  Then, the super long, cold winter made Spring Break an iffy choice, so we punted again and made today the big day.

Big gizzard shad were hard to come by this morning, but there was still an abundance of threadfin shad spawning in the shallows, so I went with the flow and used what was in abundance.

We made only 2 stops today and found ample quantities of fish at both.  The first location gave up 42 fish in about 2.5 hours of fishing, and the second location gave up an additional 17 fish in just under an hour of fishing. Of the 42 fish boated at our first stop, roughly half were legal (18+ inch) hybrid and the balance consisted mainly of short hybrid along with a few white bass and blue catfish. Stop number two gave up a 50/50 mix of keeper hybrid and keeper white bass.

We had great conditions today which included thick grey cloud cover and a nice S. wind at ~12-13 mph. 

Trey, unfortunately, had to pass on the fishing today.  During a family crawfish boil his (small) dog went after a crawfish which had fallen to the ground and was trying to swallow it whole.  Trey tried to prevent this and wound up getting bit in the process (what’s that one about no good deed ever goes unpunished?).  To add insult to injury, the bite then got infected.  So, just Ann and the boys did the rod work today.

For our efforts we landed 59 fish, all on live shad.

TALLY = 59 FISH, all caught and released


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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:
Start Time: 7:30a
End Time: 11:40a
Air Temp: 68F at trip’s start.
Water Surface Temp: 68F 
Wind:  SSE13-14
Skies: Heavy grey skies
Other Notes: GT15

Areas Fished with success:

**616 Netted shad here
**152 fished here 2.5 hours
**098 fished here 1 hour








Bob Maindelle
Holding the Line Guide Service

254-368-7411

www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com
Salado, Texas

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