Fish Catching Travel
As many of you know I occasionally make a video when I am fishing. Well today I decided to just run the camera until the battery ran out and see just exactly how many I could catch. So in 96 minutes of battery life I caught the fish in the following video.
Making small videos gives me a real appreciation of how many of the fishing shows are produced. They have the advantage of hours of tape, I seem to get an hour and a half. So getting the better ones to cooperate on tape is not all that easy. And it sometimes boils down to just when and where I turn it on. So before I get to the specifics, here it is.
At least I changed to the right lure.
The lake continues to fall, summer continues to hang around, and the fishing on Coleto continues to be the same. We are just not in a winter pattern yet. I am still finding my fish on shallow banks with grass clumps. I am trying to stay in about 8 foot no matter where the bank is, and make long casts.
As far as the buzzbait, color has not seemed to matter, but a medium speed has been the ticket. This is the first trip in a while I have not caught a pretty good fish, though I was happy with the last one on the video above.
The fish will hit the topwater, but they are small. I believe that as long as the lake continues to drop and the weather stays hot, the fishing will just be inconsistent. I am sure though that plastics are probably the ticket right now, I just like throwing this other stuff. I still get excited after all these years when I can see them blow up on it.
I have spoke with several folks about the crappie fishing, and in a word it has been inconsistent. One guy caught a nice bunch 2 days ago, and only had one when I talked with him. I spoke with a nice gentleman who I see crappie fishing all the time. He had 23 I believe last week, but said that was the best he had done in a while. Of course his comment was the same as mine, bring on winter.
Winter fishing, even in Texas can be the best time of the year to fish. And that hold true in both power plant lakes and regular lakes. The fish bunch up, and can get in a real pattern in both where they are, and when they eat. So it may seem kind of crazy to be withing for cold weather, but it is almost Christmas.
On another completely different subject. We just bought our tickets for Istanbul, should be one great trip. As we will be also going to a Greek island, who knows, maybe I will get to wet a line somewhere. And I am just making the first arrangements for a return trip to Caye Caulker in Belize. Shoedog and my friend Clyde from Arkansas are going this time and it should be great. Nothing like a bonefish ripping of 75 yards of line in gin clear water 8″ deep. Or maybe there is! How about a 60lb tarpon exploding out of the water in the moonlight? Gets me all shaky just thinking about it. And since I am doing a new fish bucket list this year, guess I will add a permit. I just hope I do not contract the LL Bean disease and start dressing like a fly fishing yuppie.
So thanks for reading my stuff. I will be headed to the the gulf a day or two this week, and maybe add Fayette to this weeks wish list list. So stop in anytime.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
