Bull Creek Keeper - Good Story

Tell your son congrats!  That is a beautiful bass with classic markings!  I spent my childhood/teen years wading and fishing bull creek with my best friend.  We would seine live redfin and blacktail shiners, put them in a minnow bucket, and wade upstream for hours at a time.  Minnow no weight (on a gold crappie hook) was our "killer bait."  We caught and released thousands of bass, mostly 1-2 lbs, but an occasional "walter" of 3-4 lbs.  This was long before the C&R movement really became prevalent.  We just enjoyed the catching, and somehow figured that we'd being screwing ourselves (if not anyone else) if we killed them.  Honestly, over several years in the 70s and early 80s, we never saw another person fishing the creek all the way from County line BBQ to where Spicewood Springs crosses 360, and even further up (in those days, there were no fences or no trespassing signs on the creek; don't recall when 360 came through, but it happened when we were "owning" the creek).

So it brings a smile to my face to see your son enjoying that creek.  Incredibly cool.