This past Friday morning, May 26th, I fished with Dr. Adolph Mares and his daughter, Alexandra, of Salado, Texas. Alexandra will graduate from Holy Trinity High School in Temple this weekend and then heads to college in New York thereafter. Father and daughter spent some time on the water before she heads out of the nest.
Dr. Adolph Mares and his daughter, Alexandra, celebrated her high school graduation by landing a school of hybrid this morning — 56 fish in all.
Based on the school’s reputation for their pre-med program and competitive sailing team, Alexandra has chosen to attend Hobart and William Smith Colleges in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, right near Seneca Lake.
We got going around 6:45 AM and immediately got into some surface feeding white bass that we’re trapping young of the year shad against the surface making both an audible and visible cue to home in on. Using grubs on jig heads, father and daughter landed 19 white bass before the sun brightened, and the fish pushed down and quit feeding.
Next, it was off to search for hybrid striped bass using live shad. Our first stop we made at an area that has been consistently productive over the last two weeks. That streak ended this morning, as I gave it a fair shot and did not draw anything but blue cat and white bass despite thumping and chumming.
The second area we headed to in search of striper was a whole different story. Although it got off to a slow start, after about 25 minutes’ worth of effort trying to draw fish in, we got to enjoy a steady stream of strikes on the 4 rods we fished with, each of which was rigged with live bait.
We stayed right on top of this area for the entire remainder of this four hour trip steadily plucking hybrid striper from 18 to 22 inches for the entire time.
Alexandra had plans to head back to school one last time for some staff and faculty yearbook signatures, so we wrapped up right at 10:30 with exactly 56 fish boated for our efforts.
TOTAL = 56 FISH, all caught and released
Wx SNAPSHOT:
TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:
Start Time: 6:45a
End Time: 10:35a
Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 77F
Water Surface Temp: 74.3F
Wind Speed & Direction: SSE14 all morning
Sky Conditions: 100% cloud cover all morning
Water Level: 0.96 feet above full pool and falling; 45 cfs release at Belton Dam
GT = 0
AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:
**Area 562-1359 – schooling white bass on surface with grubs through 7:15a
**Area 1380 – spent balance of time at this location adding 37 fish to our tally; 6:1 hybrid to white bass ratio
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