FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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After taking a couple of days off, including 2 days with the Boss in Austin, I am ready to hit the water tomorrow.  After looking at the weather the lake was an easy choice.  The wind looks like it will be out of the north, so it remains to be seen how it might affect the lake.  Not sure it could hurt it the way the fishing has been.  But the fish have to bite sometime, you’d think.

Weather

85/61.  Cloudy early then sun with a 20% chance of stray showers.  Wind  N 10 – 15mph.

Lake Level

Today  97.15 msl.  10 days ago  97.01 msl.

Solunar Times

Best  6:08 am to 8:08 am.  Good  11:53 am to 1:53 pm.

Well no, they don’t have to bite, and did not, at least for me.  I was really surprised when I got to the ramp, it really is still coming up, and with that spreading all over the place.  The water is almost topping the piers.  The water temp at the ramp was 86, the lowest was up lake where it was 82 with the incoming water.  The lake still has lots of color to it.

As you get way up lake there is another color line coming down.  It was almost muddy, and I could not get a bite on anything in that water.  To make a bad story short, 3 on Bang o Lure, 1 on white swim jig.  If you placed them end to end they might have made a good one.  (Just like last time this happened I decided if I don’t want to see a pictures of that you sure don’t.)  I threw the book at them, the 3 on Bang o Lure came in the back end of a cove, one after another.  After having a big one blow up on the buzzbait, completely missing it, the back ends held some promise.  That was the only real bite today.

So maybe something to work with?  Nope.  3 more coves after that produced zip.  They are just not having the raise yet.  On the other hand the crappie are biting to beat the band.  I talked to a couple of people and they all did fine, and there were several other folks crappie fishing.  Minnows seems to be the thing right now.  The bass on the other hand have not come to the cover.  Flipping and pitching resulted in one bite, which I missed.   So all in all I give the fishing a big fat 0, but the weather sure was nice.

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Redfish love them!

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Now on the other hand Jeff Lowrance had a little better luck than I had today.  I met Jeff when I fished Lake Dunlap last month, great guy.  He was kind enough to let me leave my boat in the water at this dock and we shared a couple of cold ones on his deck overlooking the lake.  He and my buddy Vetter do a good bit of catfishing and it really paid off.  Jeff now holds the lake record for blue cat.

54.5 lbs.  Now that is a beast!

47″ long it was quickly weighed on a certified scale and confirmed by TPWD.

They did everything they could to keep her alive.  Everything was done quickly and efficiently.  They got her confirmed and took the time and care to keep her wet as much as possible and then spent the time to make sure she was good to go.  She swam off to hopefully spread those great genes.  Congrats on the lake record but a bigger congratulations on the CPR!

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The Boss was telling one of her co-workers about my results on the bay the other day when he got a call.  It was a friend of his telling him about “that guy’s” post.  Crazy.  Amazing how that has evolved into my nickname – That guy.  I have been asked that many times on the water, but hell, I answer to anything.  And it is nice to know folks are out there reading this.  Feedback is important to me, it keeps me writing.

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And I got this comment from Ed after my first POC report.

Thanks for the report for POC been long overdue and I’m glad you got on them.
Where about is that big bayou area? Is it big pocket ? By lighthouse cove? Just wondering. I’ll be going down in about 2 weeks and hope to find some of those red brutes. Thanks again. Always enjoy reading your “stuff”
Ed Soto

Big Bayou is the small chain of islands between Barroom and Bill Days reef, where the string of cabins are.  Most of it is definitely NOT a wade fishing area, lots of mud and some really deep water.  In fact there is a hole that is 13′ deep, give or take a hurricane.  Good luck on your trip and let us know how it goes.

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And Topwater sent along his .02 worth.

“sigh”, see what happens when you fish the correct water.
Remember, salt is for fishing, fresh is for drinking/cleansing.

While I may not agree with your freshwater premise, not sure our water is for drinking any more.  We are polluting our waters all over the earth including the oceans.  Unfortunately it is also happening to many wells where folks get their drinking water.  But I have to admit the fishing is sure better in the saltwater right now.  But when it is all said and done I love all fishing, fresh and salt, trolling and casting, big fish and small, and the great places where you catch them.  I consider myself fortunate getting to sample many different places for lots of different fish.  In fact, might be time to start a new bucket list because I only have a yellowfin tuna left on the last list.

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I have a friend fishing POC today and am waiting for her report.  The north wind continues so it will be very interesting to see how their day went.  A couple of the Austin Boys are planning on fishing Fayette this weekend and if nothing has changed I will be joining them on Friday.  Tomorrow is up in the air, but not sure there is any scenario where I will not be on the water.  So keep stopping in and thank for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines