Pops came down into town for the weekend and I met him up at Stillhouse on his way down from Dallas on Friday night. We put in at about 9:30pm and fished til noon the next day. Bite was slow, only catching a couple keepers through the night until I decided to put on a white bull ribbit and chunk it around the trees. Missed two MASSIVE hits when I finally realized my tard self had the hook setup incorrectly (was using a frog stinger hook). After that my frog was totaled so I put on a smaller one and started catching fish with the one below being the highlight, only a 2lb 10oz'er. In all we got about 10, but for the first time out on the lake, it was fun.
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So we never slept, drove home to my place in Austin, installed a dog door on my patio door, then decided it was time to LA. Launched at 360 and headed up past QP where I was tossing some new huge swimbaits, but got nothing to we dicided we just wanted to catch something and hooked up the rattlesnakes and senkos. Caught 3-4 then started heading back down south, just north of CP, when I tied into my new PB. Been fishing for a few months now and this was just icing on the cake to my addiction. Weighed in at 5 lb 15oz. Tried to see if it would tip to 6lbs but not quite. Got it on a drop shot 5" black with blue metal flake senko type in about 15' water working it REAL SLOW.
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and the im too cool to smile pic...
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Got home about 11:30 and finally slept for the first time in a couple days.
Sunday we got up powerwashed/primed my deck then decided to head out to Stillhouse around 8pm for another all nighter. Got on the water 9:15ish and the conditions were amazing: 78ish, no humidity and a breeze. However, we could only pull in dinks and we were throwing everything -- C-rig, Tex-rig, drop shot, cranks, spinners, shakey head, frogs, speed craw, DD22 -- only dinks. Best part of the day was at about 7:30am when we got into some great sandies over by the dam. Got about 9 between the two of us then called it a morning since it was 2 of 3 nights with no sleep.
All in all, an amazing weekend and I gotta hand it to my ol man for helping me out with all the house work along with 2 all-nighters on the lake(s).
So we never slept, drove home to my place in Austin, installed a dog door on my patio door, then decided it was time to LA. Launched at 360 and headed up past QP where I was tossing some new huge swimbaits, but got nothing to we dicided we just wanted to catch something and hooked up the rattlesnakes and senkos. Caught 3-4 then started heading back down south, just north of CP, when I tied into my new PB. Been fishing for a few months now and this was just icing on the cake to my addiction. Weighed in at 5 lb 15oz. Tried to see if it would tip to 6lbs but not quite. Got it on a drop shot 5" black with blue metal flake senko type in about 15' water working it REAL SLOW.
and the im too cool to smile pic...
Got home about 11:30 and finally slept for the first time in a couple days.
Sunday we got up powerwashed/primed my deck then decided to head out to Stillhouse around 8pm for another all nighter. Got on the water 9:15ish and the conditions were amazing: 78ish, no humidity and a breeze. However, we could only pull in dinks and we were throwing everything -- C-rig, Tex-rig, drop shot, cranks, spinners, shakey head, frogs, speed craw, DD22 -- only dinks. Best part of the day was at about 7:30am when we got into some great sandies over by the dam. Got about 9 between the two of us then called it a morning since it was 2 of 3 nights with no sleep.
All in all, an amazing weekend and I gotta hand it to my ol man for helping me out with all the house work along with 2 all-nighters on the lake(s).
