Grapevine 5-22-11

First time customers Rick and Jacob met me at the ramp to learn how to fish this morning on an instructional trip.  We started out with Rick catching 3 dinks right out of the box and then hit a cold spell.  Checked the island, meadowmere, rock crusher, murrell....nothing.  I did mark some good bait with birds around meadowmere, so I headed back there.  This time the birds were there sitting on the bank, a few boats and nothing on the graph.  Then I saw two hit on top...graph lit up and before we new it Jacob(first time to fish) had 64 in the boat and was worn out!  All fish caught on Ole Ugly, Yarn Flies and Flies-By-Night in 18-26ft on the bottom.  It sure was fun teaching this young man how to do some catching!

First Fish

 First Double

 
Father Son Pic

Eagle Mountain 5-21-11

Took repeat customers, James and his father, to Eagle Mountain to do some sand bass catching.  First area I graphed nobody was home, so we went to the next area and marked a little bit on the graph and decided to give it a try.  James father caught his first double.

  Those little marks grew and the fishing got really good until the fog lifted and then they vanished after two hours of catching.  Pulled the trolling motor up and headed to another area and same story, marked a little and after catching a few the graph lit up nicely and it was ON!

Took some video on this trip.  Youtube will only allow 15 minutes of run time, so this a little bit of the day.
Eagle Mountain Video: White Bass/Sand Bass Slabbing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5S7Oolnq-4

After that bites slowed, we decided to check out a point and there wasn't much home.  Decided to blind cast it out and one fish was caught.  We quickly decided to go find another school and headed back to the area we graphed first thing and nobody was home....but this time the graph lit up and it was game time!  James and his father are trying to decide when to book there next trip.  Thanks guys

Eagle Mountain 5-14-11

Had repeat customers John, Roe, Whitney, Liz and Graham this morning. The weather was a tad chilly and the north wind was blowing pretty good. Checked a few humps and a point fairly out of the wind and only put 9 fish in the box for the first couple of hours. We decided to hit the main lake and found the fish really stacked up from 20-26ft on a ridge. Caught their limits in a little over an hour there. All fish caught on Ol'Ugly Slabs and yarn flies and flies by Flies-By-Night. Chartreuse and white was the color they wanted today on both. Tried white and it was not nearly as productive. The water had mud streaks from all the wind and rain we have gotten. Water temp was in the low 70's and was much warmer than the air temp. I'll have to post pictures when I get them. My neighbor who is in a high school photography class came along to snap some pics of the sunrise and fishing. Off the water by 11:00 so I don't know how the afternoon bite was today. School is almost out so I'll have weekday openings in June and July.