WHO I FISHED WITH: 16 year old Keyshawn Price and 13 year old Christijan Steven — brothers from Killeen, TX.  Their trip was “scholarshipped” by their next door neighbor, Marcy Brown, who thinks very highly of these two young men.

Thanks to a little disturbance in the weather which brought a light NW breeze and cloud cover, observing the surface for fish feeding on topwater lead to great sub-surface results this afternoon — 90 fish in all.

After doing well at vertical jigging, Keyshawn gave sight-casting to topwater feeding largemouth a try.  In doing so, he landed our largest fish of the trip.

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

WHERE WE FISHED: Stillhouse

WHEN WE FISHED: Saturday evening, 07 October

HOW WE FISHED:
The fish were really cranked up this afternoon, thanks to a mild weather disturbance and some grey, overcast skies.  Topwater action was abundant and widespread, and pointed the way to even better sub-surface action.  We immediately got onto, and stayed on, heavily congregated white bass in 47 feet.  Each time the fishing got slow, I took a couple serpentine passes into gradually shallower water and found them (four times) just as heavily congregated.  We only stopped using tailspinners to fish vertically because the boys’ wrists were getting sore, so, we cast the bladebaits and fished them lift-drop style, then closed out the evening downrigging both where we had fished all afternoon, and at one additional location for the last 25 minutes of light.

OBSERVATIONS:  Second consecutive day witnessing migrating white pelicans; flock of migrating teal are now commonplace.

TALLY: 90 FISH, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 3:30p

End Time: 7:00p

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start:  83

Water Surface Temp:  79.4

Wind Speed & Direction:  NW3-5

Sky Conditions:  20% white cloud cover at sunrise, increasing to under 30% by trip’s end

Water Level: 1.22 feet low

GT = 5

Wx SNAPSHOT: 

 

AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 2019, then progressively shallower to to a line from 1882 through 664 – vertical work

**Area vic 088 through 1439 downrigging in the last 25 minutes of daylight

 

Bob Maindelle, Central Texas Fishing Guide

Owner, Holding the Line Guide Service

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