Dr. Isdale is a local chiropractor who has been helping people “adjust for the changes in life” since 1975 at his clinic in Killeen. The boys’ dad, Jason Degenhardt, is also a chiropractor and operates his practice off of Indian Trail in Harker Heights.  Dylan and Drake are both up and coming baseball players, but were decidedly not “morning people”.  Grandpa slowly coaxed them awake, and, by the time each had reeled in a fish or two, they were firing on all 8 cylinders.

Once again we had less than ideal conditions with a light northeast breeze, clear skies, and high-pressure, all in the wake of the cold front that passed early in the week.

This morning’s trip fished almost identically to yesterday morning’s trip. We encountered a light downrigging bite for sparse, scattered, suspended white bass in the first hour, followed by a 2-hour peak feed in the middle of the morning. As the peak feed got underway, largemouth bass began to pursue shad up on the surface, and white bass begin to pursue shad in the lower third of the water column. While the action was still ramping up we used three-armed umbrella rigs equipped with Pet Spoons on the downriggers set at 22 to 26 feet. When the action built and we were able to hover over a very dense school of bottom-oriented white bass, we switched over to slabs and fished them vertically while the fish were in the immediate vicinity of the boat, and then used blade baits (Cicadas) cast horizontally to fish for them once they dispersed.

Once the downhill slide of the morning had kicked in, it progressed very quickly. By 1030 we had enjoyed all of the action we were going to enjoy for this morning. We caught a grand total of 42 fish this morning including exactly 40 white bass in the one, two, three, and four year classes, as well as 2 schoolie-sized largemouth bass.