YOUR MONDAY MORNING PRESCRIPTION IS READY – 178 FISH

WHO I FISHED WITH:  This morning, Monday, August 19th, I fished with Mr. David Ross, Mr. Allen Sandor, and Mr. Dustin Deorsam on Lake Belton in pursuit of white bass.  Allen operates Sandor Construction LLC, Dustin works for Allen as his superintendent, and David is a pharmacist who just passed his 4-year mark with HEB.  Both Allen and David have fished with me previously, but in different seasons, so, they got to enjoy a very different sort of fishing this morning.

By the time all was said and done, the three agreed that this was the way Monday mornings should be!  The trio landed 178 fish on an exceptional outing.

 

PHOTO CAPTION:  From left:  Dustin Deorsam, Allen Sandor, and Dave Ross with a sampling of the 178 fish they landed this morning.  Our catch included 174 white bass, 1 hybrid striped bass, and 3 largemouth bass.

 WHAT WE FISHED FOR: White bass the entire trip

WHERE WE FISHED:  Lake Belton

WHEN WE FISHED:  19 August 2019, AM

HOW WE FISHED:   This morning was exceptional.  Despite having no appreciable change in the weather, other than the moon starting to wane from full, the white bass fed well at or near the surface today in quite a number of areas, and well beyond the low-light period which has been ending around 7:20-7:30. That post-lowlight feed went until ~9:30am.

We did catch the low-light bite, but then enjoyed additional, similar action by casting shad-imitating spoons to fish gorging themselves on young of the year shad.  A number of white bass we hooked regurgitated 10+ small shad, all freshly swallowed and undigested.

By around 9:30am, this fast-paced fishing settled down, and we closed out the trip with a final hour-plus of productive downrigging with balls suspended at 18-21′ over a deeper bottom, and using the same spoons on the ‘riggers that worked so well on the surface.

TALLY:  178 fish caught and released

OBSERVATIONS:  1) Exceptional, long-lived white bass topwater action today, 2) The majority of the bait was saw fleeing and being regurgitated was under 1.25 inches. 3) James C. reported similar activity in a segment of the lake we did not fish.

TODAY’S CONDITIONS/NOTES:

Start Time:   6:30a

End Time: 10:45a

Air Temp. @ Trip’s Start: 78F

Elevation:  0.13 low, 0.05′ 24-hour fall, 34 CFS flow

Water Surface Temp:   84.8

Wind Speed & Direction:  S6 at sunrise, slowly ramping up to S12 by trip’s end

Sky Conditions:  High white haze over a blue sky just thick enough to cut some of the sun’s heat, with some welcome larger white clouds covering the sun from 8:30 to 9:30, then dispersing.

GT =  140

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 AREAS FISHED WITH SUCCESS:

**Area 013 to 1656 – 14 fish on topwater then another 3 fish on downriggers during the low-light blitz here.

**Area B0167C (all the way around the perimeter) – 133 fish

**Area vic 507 – sight casting to whites trapping shad against the bank

**Area vic437 – downrigging

 

Bob Maindelle

Full-time, Professional Fishing Guide and Owner of Holding the Line Guide Service

Belton Lake Fishing Guide, Stillhouse Hollow Fishing Guide

254.368.7411 (call or text)

 

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