[Ranger_R77]

Birthday Day JJAM on Lake Bastrop-VID/PICS

I was wanting to take JJAM to Fayette for his BD, but the wind was too much to risk it...Instead went to Lake Bastrop. With him and his basscat, Chris and I , met at North Shore Park at 6:30am.

Started at 7am, at discharge. One other boat in discharge area....Nothing until about 7:45am, when the schools of bass chasing shad started appearing all around us. Like the other boats in the area, saw several nice bass (probably 4lbs+) caught. We only could catch the 10" to 17" bass.....I missed several on topwater. Most were caught on Zoom Bait Company Super Fluke Jr.  in White ICE, weightless......Aout five boats were in that area trying to catch one of those bass....Winds were gusting to over 20mph+...


Stopped fishing the discharge at 9am and started keying on grass, woods and drop-offs. Caught more bass on shacky head with Rattlesnake-4inch, lipless crankbaits, and texas rigged dark colored worms...

JJAM, Happy Birthday...Along with Joe, his brother-inlaw Chris, neither one had never seen this kind of bass-chasing-shad event before...Sometimes frustrating when you miss so much fish!...

Overall very fun for a Feb. 4th, wintertime day in the  upper 70's....Off the lake by noontime...Back to work!

 

[Ranger_R77]

Re: Bastrop-Monday with Birthday Day JJAM!

Joe's one of several bass

Chris one of several bass..

 

[jjam]

Re: Bastrop-Monday with Birthday Day JJAM!

it was deffintly a fun morning!

 

[rmvfishing]

Re: Bastrop-Monday with Birthday Day JJAM!

Nice fish... I love that schoolie action. 8)

Happy birthday jjam! Mine is on the 7th, and I'll be 16. bassfinder's is on the 6th. Wow... Everyones birthday is this week.

 

[jjam]

Re: Bastrop-Monday with Birthday Day JJAM!

thank you.

that schoolie action was definitely new to me and fun. here is a little video that was taken while we were there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtB0RD63K5o

 

[lunker-hunter]

Re: Bastrop-Monday with Birthday Day JJAM!

That's awesome. I wish that sort of thing happened on LA more often.

 

[jjam]

Re: Bastrop-Monday with Birthday Day JJAM!

I think i am going to have to go back for some more here real soon!

 

[Ranger_R77]

Re: Bastrop-Monday with Birthday Day JJAM!

LMAO...at the comments by Chris on the video....

Lasted about 1hour and 30 minutes, before schools of bait stopped....The bass would bust shad near the roped off section and they would move all the way down to the mouth of the discharge....then wait about 10 minutes, another wave of shad busting would start.....

Bass were mainly schoolies with a few big fish mixed in....


JUST PURE FUN!!!

 

[jjam]

Re:  Birthday Day JJAM on Lake Bastrop-VID/PI

yes it was!

 

[RudeHo225]

Re:  Birthday Day JJAM on Lake Bastrop-VID/PI

Happy Birthday JoS.  

Definitely a nice gift to get it started right.  

Imagine that activity intensified by at least 100 times with a duration of a solid 45 minutes.  That's what happened to me and Fob on July 5th of '07 on the main lake.  Good ole Bastrop schoolies, now you know.....  

 

[jjam]

Re:  Birthday Day JJAM on Lake Bastrop-VID/PI

Imagine that activity intensified by at least 100 times with a duration of a solid 45 minutes.

thank you rude. if that happened to me on the main lake it would have probably scared that carp out of me!

 

[Pflugerville_Aggie]

Re:  Birthday Day JJAM on Lake Bastrop-VID/PI

thank you rude. if that happened to me on the main lake it would have probably scared that carp out of me!

You have a carp in you? That sounds painful.

 

[jjam]

Re:  Birthday Day JJAM on Lake Bastrop-VID/PI

i was going to use the other word but i like that one better

 

[chris-m]

Re:  Birthday Day JJAM on Lake Bastrop-VID/PI

Sure was a fun experience. We need to do it again soon.
Thanks ranger for the fun and the images.

Sorry for the foul language in my clip. My small digital camera did not do it justice. Am I right joe!

 

[jjam]

Re:  Birthday Day JJAM on Lake Bastrop-VID/PI

yup. i will make it back out there soon .....

 

[fishytx]

Re: Bastrop-Monday with Birthday Day JJAM!

that schoolie action was definitely new to me and fun.

Thanks for the video. It is an awesome thing to see.

Last September a friend and I were out there and this schooling action lasted all day long. They were all around the boat. It made no difference which side you tried to fish because they were in the front, in the back, and both sides. I have never seen LMB come flying out of the water, flipping end over end through the air like they did that day. It was definitely something to see.

 

[chris-m]

Re:  Birthday Day JJAM on Lake Bastrop-VID/PI

sure. Maybe next time we'll get some better video footage.

Both of us lost our favorite rattle traps, but threw in some 8 in worms in the stumps and had some luck with the one in the image.