06 | September | 2018 | Fishing Report

WHO I FISHED WITH: This morning I fished with retired golfing buddies Bill Torenko and Larry Mladic. Bill treated Larry to a fishing trip for his birthday. Neither had been fishing in quite some time, in fact, Larry recollected that the last time he went “fishing” it was with some other US soldiers and some Vietnamese allies in Vietnam. The Vietnamese had a seine the strung across the shallow part of a stream while Larry and others lobbed 4 grenades into the stream simultaneously. Bottom line according to Larry: “Man, we ate good that night!”

Not much to write home about this trip. We landed 12 fish and they were something less than lunkers.

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

WHERE WE FISHED: Lake Georgetown

WHEN WE FISHED: Wednesday morning, 05 September 2018

HOW WE FISHED: If you follow my blog or Facebook, you’ll know I do not sugarcoat my fishing results. I report the good and the bad. Today was just bad! Georgetown has never been high on my list of lakes to fish. When Bill’s initial email came in asking to guide him on Georgetown came in, I tried to ask him to consider shifting to the consistent bite on Stillhouse, but, for a number of factors that didn’t work for him or Larry. So, we did our best on Georgetown. We found some light schooling action by small white bass in open water and similar light schooling action by largemouth bass in shallower timber, all focused on young of the year shad found at or near the system. The fellows were both a bit rusty on their casting, so trying to pick off fast moving topwater fish was not a good fit. We wound up downrigging for a majority of our trip. We landed 6 white bass, 5 short hybrid striped bass, and 1 small largemouth bass. I never saw on sonar a group of open-water fish sufficiently congregated to consider stopping and vertically jigging for. What fish we found we found in small packs and caught them in multiples, but never encountered more than a “wolfpack” of perhaps 10-15 fish at any given time. This, plus still wind conditions, just made things even tougher on an already tough body of water.

OBSERVATIONS/NOTES: Light and variable winds under 3mph, generally SE when they did blow.

TALLY: 12 fish, all caught and released

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time: 7:00 am

End Time: 11:15 am

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 75F

Water Surface Temp: 83.4F

Wind Speed & Direction: Winds were calm at sunrise and for about 90 minutes hence, then building to SE7 through 10am, then going calm again.

Sky Conditions: 100% cloud cover.

Water Level: 16.24 feet low and falling

GT = 40

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