A Dollar Waitin’ on a Dime — 66 Fish, Belton, 28 April 2014

This morning I welcomed the Oliver clan aboard including “Paw” Oliver, and 3 of his sons — Joe, Jamie, and Jack, all for a morning of hybrid fishing.


 “Paw” Oliver.


Joe Oliver.


Jack (L) and Jamie (R) Oliver.

Joe, who now serves as the Athletic Director at Central Texas Christian School, has fished with me on 10 previous occasions, and “Paw” has been along on most of those.  Jamie had been out with me once before, and this was Jack’s first (but hopefully not last) trip me, as he has sons of his own we hope to get on the water later this summer.

The hybrid striped bass fishing has been excellent, as it typically is in this 6 week “window” in April and into May, coinciding with the threadfin shad spawn.  Today was no exception.  We got on fish immediately, and stayed on fish for the entirety of the trip, stopping at 4 distinct locations to accomplish this.

Fishing was very straightforward — I found fish with sonar, hovered over them using i-Pilot technology built into my Minn Kota trolling motor, put lively shad baits directly down beneath the boat to the level the fish were holding at, placed the rods in the rod holders, and let the shad and the circle hooks take care of the rest.

One remarkable statistic — of our first 30 fish caught today, 28 were keeper hybrid striped bass (exceeding 18 inches).

Over the course of the trip there were all kinds of good-natured “pokes” the brothers were throwing at each other — for missing a bite, or having a fish come unhooked, or catching a smaller fish than the one doing the “poking” did.  Maybe the best one was when everyone rode Jamie pretty good about showing up a bit late for the fishing trip.  Now, in fairness, they all said there was no way he would show up late for a fishing trip — perhaps for work, but never for fishing.  By 8:01am all that flew out the window.  As the sole of Jamie’s foot hit the parking lot, Joe yells out so as to be heard 100 yards away, “Here’s a dollar waitin’ on a dime!!”.  Jamie knew he was in the dog house!

TALLY = 66 FISH, all caught and released


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TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:
Start Time: 8:15a
End Time: 12:15p
Air Temp: 61F at trip’s start.
Water Surface Temp: 68F 
Wind:  WNW6 building to WNW15
Skies: Cloudless fair sky
Other Notes: GT20

Areas Fished with success:

**1367 Netted shad here in the AM
**1377 caught 70% of our fish here
**1293/151  caught 20% of our fish here
**152 caught only 1 fish here
**682/787 caught 20% of our fish here








Bob Maindelle
Holding the Line Guide Service

254-368-7411

www.HoldingTheLineGuideService.com
Salado, Texas

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