WHO I FISHED WITH: 12-year-old Jayden Abbott and 10-year-old Tyler Nolen

 

12-year-old Jayden Abbott celebrated his birthday aboard my boat this afternoon, landing his fair share of the 91 fish that we caught.

 

10-year-old Tyler Nolen celebrated his birthday, as well, doing a bit more snacking than Jayden, but still holding his own in the fishing department.

WHAT WE FISHED FOR: This was a multi-species trip focused on white bass

WHERE WE FISHED: Stillhouse

WHEN WE FISHED: Saturday evening, 30 September

HOW WE FISHED:  Given that I’d only come off the lake from the morning trip about 5 hours before the start of this trip, and (more importantly) that the weather had not changed since the end of the morning trip, we essentially drove from the courtesy dock to the fish and had both boys tight on fish within minutes of saying goodbye to their dads in the parking lot.  The fishing stayed solid all afternoon as the winds stayed blowing as higher pressure and brighter skies prevailed.  We fished vertically for the first 3 hours with both slabs and tailspinners, then, mainly for variety’s sake, changed over to downrigging in the final hour.  All fish were caught between 36 and 43 feet on bottom.  The last 45 minutes prior to sunset saw the fish pull up off bottom by as much as 8-10 feet where we ran the downriggers at 32-36 feet to continue catching them right up until trip’s end at 7:15p.

OTHER NOTES/OBSERVATIONS:  Noted abundant, widespread largemouth bass schooling action in a number of open water areas both this morning and this afternoon, with more action in the PM than in the AM.

TALLY: 91 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 7:15p

End Time: 3:45p

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 78F

Water Surface Temp: 80.6F

Wind Speed & Direction: NNE under 10mph

Sky Conditions: Under 20% white cloud cover for the entire trip. First day of clearing after a mild cool front passed and then stalled, bringing cooler temperatures and about 2 days’ worth of rainy, humid weather.

Water Level: 1.32 feet low

GT = 0

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 2014 – tailspinners accounted for exactly 35 fish from out of a heavily congregated school of fish on bottom.

**Area vic 1034 – tailspinners and slabs accounted for exactly 20 more fish

**Area 2016 and then Area 1993 to 2014 gave up a final 36 fish in the form of singles, doubles and triples (x2) on downrigged 3-armed umbrella rigs as fish moved up in the water column and shoreward as the light faded before and at sunset.

 

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

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