Eagle Mountain 8-14-10

Took Lance and Brad's families out this morning to do some catching.  It didn't take long to get into some action.  The fish were in the same pattern as yesterday on a ledge in 20-25 ft of water.  Today they never did school up.  The wind and boat traffic kept them down, but not from biting.  This little guy caught his first fish today and many more!  Love those moments and smiles!

This little guy brought his pole with him and it lit up when you reel it!  It was a riot watching him catch fish on old Mr. Toy Story pole.

It was a great time fishing with this group and look forward to many more as they grow up. 

Eagle Mountain 8-13-10

Took Dave out with some of his buddies earlier this spring and he decided to bring his family along and leave his buddies at work this time.  Sorry Dwight and Sam, you missed some great fishing!  Caught all the fish in one general area on a drop off in 22-25 ft of water.  Caught a few on topwater, but most were caught on Ol'Ugly and a fly...well except Dave who couldn't resist his perch/trout rod and a Little Cleo he brought along.  He tried it in the spring, but the first big sand bass snapped him off and he didn't have another Little Cleo, so today he came prepared with new line and 5 Little Cleo's.  Had a great time and the boy was the sneaky double man today.  He was silent and I'd turn around to see a double coming in the boat numerous times.  Water temp is up in the low 90's and the shad are getting bigger.

Eagle Mountain 8-9-10

Today's trip was a teaching trip with Clay on techniques, patterns, locations, presentations, knot tying, graph/map reading, cast net throwing, etc.  We started out the morning learning how to catch bait and keep it alive.   Once he got the hang of throwing the net we headed out to learn how to slab, work a school, read a graph and go over patterns for sand bass.  We caught 30-40 while going over everything and headed out once the boat show started running their engines into the schools scattering them out.  Next we focused on seasonal locations, techniques, and graph reading.  Once we went over everything for sand bass we switched gears and went for summertime channel cat.  Caught a nice male channel in 2ft of water and moved on to other patterns.  After going over channel cat we went over the seasonal patterns and techniques for blue cat.  Still never found the blues, but we weren't really focusing on catching them today.  It was a learning trip and I think Clay's mind and note pad are full for now.  Had a good time and look forward to seeing him on the water displaying what he learned.  Thanks Clay

Eagle Mountain 8-8-10

Took first time guests, Jason, Bree, Sarah, and Hector out for a Bree's birthday  this morning.  We got started a little later today, but started catching fish at first drop at 7am.  They flat wore out the sandies and got to see how one boat, "pontoon man", can mess the fishing up for everyone.  Luckily, we were able to find other fish that would cooperate today.  After the boat show left the fish scattered, but they weren't ready to call it a day, so we took out the HellPets and caught another 30-40 fish.  Once the sun got up and really cooking we finished off the day with a little tubing fun.  I do believe they had a blast and were ready for a nap after wearing their arms out catching and then tubing!  Good times with good people.  Thanks and Happy Birthday

Eagle Mountain 8-7-10

First time guest, Brett, came from Houston to fish for schooling sand bass.  He grew up fishing Texoma before it had stripers, chasing summertime sandies.  We got started early slabbing some on a ledge that I marked fishing on before the sun got up.  Once the sun broke the horizon they started out on top.  Brett brought a double jig rig that he use to use and caught them on that.  We also caught them on Pop R's and slabs.  All fish caught on the flats and drop offs.  Temps were in the high 80's and 91 when I headed in.

Eagle Mountain 8-3-10

Took first time guests Sylvan and his son Jake out this morning for some summer time sand bassin'!  These guys have stayed on the lake for vacation for a week every year and not really done much fishing.  I'm glad they decided to come to the dark side and catch some.  It was a blast watching their faces as they pulled in doubles on the slab and fly combo and then catching some on a Pop-R for topwater action.  All fish caught on flats 7-23ft.  We decided to see if we could catch a nice blue or two, but decided after a very short while to head in due to the heat.  Sylvan took his other son and Jake back out a few days later and put a hurting on those fish again.  Good times!  Water temp 88-90

Eagle Mountain 8-1-10

Took Burton and his 4 sons out this morning to do a catching trip early and then teaching trip after the morning bite died off.  Watching those 4 boys catching fish and keeping me busy was a blast!  Boats were flying around everywhere on the flat and shut the fish off before they really got going good, but we still caught enough for them a nice mess and they had a great time.  Ended the day showing Burton the areas fish hold and seasonal patterns to locate the fish on a consistent basis.  Burton grew up fishing the coast, so he is seasoned just needed a few ideas on the freshwater side of things.  Had a great time guys!

Forgot to take pics, they were keeping me so busy...sorry.

Eagle Mountain 7-31-10

Took return guests, John, Roe, Graham, Whitney, and Liz for some sand bass fishing this morning. Started out great catching double on Ol'Ugly and flies, but quickly the boat show grew exponentially with boats running the big motor scattering the fish. Marked a large school with the SI and started whacking them good and they just had to blow up and here came the birds with every boat following them. We had a great time and even got a friendly check from the game warden to make sure everything was legit. It was good to see them out there two weekends in a row. The numbers were a little down today with 87 on the clicker at 8:30 keeping the 50 biggest for a family fry. We took a little boat ride and headed in at 9:30. John and his group like to get out early, catch, and beat the heat in for their family picnic at the ramp. Good times with great people.