This past Friday morning I fished with Mr. Doug Kneer, his son Tyler, and his daughter Breanna. Only the two kids fished while Doug took it all in trying to glean some lessons for their future bank fishing expeditions.
Tyler Kneer with one of many cooperative hybrid he landed this morning as a cool, dry front moved in and stirred the fish into a feeding mood.
Breanna Kneer got the hang of using circle hooks very quickly and missed very few opportunities this morning.
The shad situation was sort of odd this morning in that I caught only a handful (literally six shad) before first light in about an hour’s worth of effort, yet, just yards away after sunrise, spawning shad loaded the bank thus allowing me to catch what I needed for the trip.
Because the hybrid striped bass bite has been reliable, I thought I would put the kids on hybrid first and for as long as the hybrid would bite, then chase white bass using slabs in whatever time remained.
As it turned out, we had a 2.75 hour long bite on the hybrid which produced 27 legal hybrid and two shorts as well as six white bass. Right around 10 AM, the fish shut down at the second of two areas we successfully fished for hybrid at, using live bait.
From roughly 10:15 to 11:10 AM, we used three-quarter ounce slabs retrofitted with Hazy Eye Stinger hooks to score on white bass in exactly 42 feet of water. These fish were in classic deepwater array – – heavily schooled together and tightly hugging bottom.
In this closing chapter of our trip, we took our tally up to 68 fish, catching mainly three-year class white bass.
As was the case two Thursday mornings ago, the incoming, dry cold front really spurred on the fish behavior this morning.
TOTAL = 68 FISH, all caught and released
TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:
Start Time: 6:45a
End Time: 11:15a
Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 70F
Water Surface Temp: 72.6F
Wind Speed & Direction: NW12 at trip’s start, increasing to NW16
Sky Conditions: Clear cold front skies
Water Level: 0.76 feet above full pool and falling; 20 cfs release at Belton Dam
GT = 5
AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:
**Area vic 1012 – strong hybrid bite
**Area 1295 – moderate hybrid bite
**Area 1941 – white bass by smoking
Bob Maindelle
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