[JT]

Fished Lake Austin this evening from 8pm till around midnight from Quinlan. The first two hours were slow and I couldn't seem to get bit throwing TR and WW plastics, top water, swim baits and shallow running cranks over the grass. Just after 10pm I changed worms and got bit on the first cast. Next cast I caught a nice chunky 20.5" fish off a dock. It weighed 5-14 on my digital scale which weighs at least a few ozs light. I'll call it a 6 lber. On the next cast to the same dock I caught another nice 18" fish. Had several more bites but didn't catch any others. ;D

John

 

[Shimano-man]

Very nice John. Glad you picked up a few. Nice outside at 10pm too.

 

[RudeHo225]

JT,

Thanks for the report and nice fish. I love fishing LA in the dead of night. It's so calm and quiet that it can almost be creepy.

 

[fishbone]

Nice catch JT! I knew it was only a matter of time before you would catch a hawg. Can't wait to get back out there.

D

 

[dahcdahc]

sure beats dodging the ski boats during the day..lol

Gonna have to give that a try sometime.

 

[FishHead]

sure beats dodging the ski boats during the day..lol

Gonna have to give that a try sometime.

Congrats and same here. I sure need to spend some time on LA. I'm guessing the ski boats are out during the week too?

 

[JT]

I'm guessing the ski boats are out during the week too?

The ski boats don't get out in numbers nearly as early during the week, usually around 1:30 to 3:00pm depending which part of the lake you're on. I highly recommend fishing LA during the week if you can.

 

[rmvfishing]

Nice fish JT!

I agree, fish LA early before the ski boats get out. They're out there at 10:30-11AM on weekends. I'm kinda surprised that they aren't out earlier during the week, school's out. ???

I got to get back out there soon.

 

[JT]

Nice fish JT!

I'm kinda surprised that they aren't out earlier during the week, school's out. ???

I have seen a few ski boats out early, last time I launched at 6:45am there were two ski boats launching. They just don't seem to be getting out in large enough numbers to be a major annoyance until early to mid afternoon on most weekdays. I don't mind too much if 3-4 of 'em go by in an hour. To their credit, I will say that the vast majority them seem to be safe and courteous boaters, their wakes are just too damn big.