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1/23/2012 12:39pm
White bass that is.
I grew up in Corpus and my youth was full of bay fishing, so I have never liked fresh water fishing at all, bores the hell out of me. Im especially bored by large mouth bass and all the hoopla about that kind of fishing spending all day chasing some elusive fish under a log or something. But I went with my best friend to his lake house over on Lake Limestone and fished for some white bass, and wow that is almost as fun as catching specks feeding under the gulls on the bay.
He has a small lakehouse and good pier out there with huge lights on a timer, and right now those whites are running in to spawn. Talk about a FIGHT. You will only have serious action at about 10:30pm til midnight, and then again at 4am til 5 so you dont get much sleep, but the fishing is incredible. They are feeding on shad and schooling heavy and you catch 2 fat females per cast and they almost break your pole. Reminds me of hooking a nice kingfish or dolphin offshore ! We limited out in less than an hour easily. Once this spawning is over, this kind of action wont happen again until next year.
You guys ever go after whites this time of year?
I grew up in Corpus and my youth was full of bay fishing, so I have never liked fresh water fishing at all, bores the hell out of me. Im especially bored by large mouth bass and all the hoopla about that kind of fishing spending all day chasing some elusive fish under a log or something. But I went with my best friend to his lake house over on Lake Limestone and fished for some white bass, and wow that is almost as fun as catching specks feeding under the gulls on the bay.
He has a small lakehouse and good pier out there with huge lights on a timer, and right now those whites are running in to spawn. Talk about a FIGHT. You will only have serious action at about 10:30pm til midnight, and then again at 4am til 5 so you dont get much sleep, but the fishing is incredible. They are feeding on shad and schooling heavy and you catch 2 fat females per cast and they almost break your pole. Reminds me of hooking a nice kingfish or dolphin offshore ! We limited out in less than an hour easily. Once this spawning is over, this kind of action wont happen again until next year.
You guys ever go after whites this time of year?
We were out there one day fishing among the locals who were not catching any.
My fishing buddy's neighbor had told him to use chicken liver (just like cat fishing). I thought his neighbor was pulling my buddy's leg but sure enough we loaded up on them.
Once the spawn rush is over, as summer comes, go find a "Point" on the lake. If there is a sandy drop-off , off the point, you can slay them every afternoon on slabs.
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We used lead-heads with black shad lure on, just like this only silvery-black in color.
We're about a mile south of town from where 831 & 542 split.
Are they actual tanks? Like a gas tank (only huge)?
What are they made of, fiberglass, aluminum, stainless steal?
Sorry, I'm just being nosey, there's not much harvested around here except for corn and beans!
Pit Row
Originally dug to water livestock, and people figured they might as well raise fish to catch out of them.
I have a artesian(SP?, Bull spring 'round here) well that popped up in my back yard. I've been thinking about digging it out and throwing a few bluegill or crappie in..
I have some pics at home of this little spring and what it's doing to my yard. I'll post them up when I get home..
It might be awhile, It's a long walk home!
Regarding fertilizer, we just put hay in there and when it rots it does wonder to clear up the water and when it rots it creates foodstuff for micro organisms in the eco system.
Funny shit about the cop, 1st one they hire, and he didn't make it 60 days. I never saw him, and I don't know how the hell you hide a cop in Oakwood.
Just saw your location on your avatar, Big Spring is way the hell out there. We used to do some hunting out there, and I always wanted to free ride some of those plateaus.
What he'll never know is, when he jumped, I was aiming at him with a 30.06. It would never made it at that angle, but 2 minutes before...I was holding something different...He never saw that one.
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