Livingston 5-4-08

[bueyescowboy]

I sure hope y'all where out on the lake today. If not you really missed a good day of fishing. Saturday, I got smart and done yard work as I watched the waves roll in from the north. But today, I got my lazy self out of my nice comfieee bed, and headed out at the break of day. Good thing too, I started fishing at 6 a.m. and finished at 6 p.m. Generally, catching fish all day. Catfish in the morning 10 total. then white bass the rest of the day. Caught probably 50 white bass but keep a total of 15. So about 25 fish all day, but few boring moments.
I have pic's and I ll edit and attach them when my eyes quit rolling in back of my head.........

[shadslinger]

That is a good day fishing BEC, I remember being able to stay all day, seems along time ago now. The whites are getting on a better bite down on my end of the lake and getting more size to them as well. I caught about 35 this morning and kept a limit of nice 12" to 13" hard fighters from 6:00 am to 8:00 am, plus a few blues on jugs.

[bueyescowboy]

Shad what did you mean when you said the blues will start to spawn now.....will they move to shallow water to lay their eggs? I havent caught any in awhile with eggs in them. I hope the shad go a little longer that has been so much fun.
Gator gar.......wow! Now thats a gator. Actually I believe we have some behind my cabin close to that. I haven't seen them in awhile since livingston water has came back up. And I ve seen people swim back there. I don't swim behind the cabin. Did you read on the internet the other day where a guy picked up a six foot gator on side of the road. Yea put the gator in his car and was bring it to a friends house till the sherrif pulled him over for...yea you guessed it...making an illegal turn...not because of the 6 ft gator in the back window. The guy was on meth. I think....either way I am not missing with that fellow. true story I believe in Alvin....it was just in the news. I don't play with snakes or gators. don't play with sharks either....I like my limbs. Hey i have a question for ya...whats the best way to sharpen electric knife blades? I burn through about 2 sets a year because they get dull. Any advice?
and slime on the line.....i see ya. I going to catch up with y'all at the south end soon....i feel a pine island trip coming up. Wet deck here I come.

I sure have been seeing alot of people on the lake....jugs everywhere....I was going to post this "you know its a good day fishing when the gals are screaming in the boats. "I ve got another one" famous line.

And one last thing I have a fisherman's prayer hanging on my cabin wall....never really read it.....to busy..but got a chance the other day ......and made me smile......can't remember the whole thing which i ll write it down and share it......but it ended something like

when I finally lay down to sleep,
I hope the good lord finds me big enough to keep.

[shadslinger]

BEC, it seems to me that the shad spawn before the blues with channel cats right behind them, then the blues. I am not sure where, what depth they spawn, because when they are really ripe with eggs(soon) I catch the big ones out by the hump. I bait with big chunks of cut bait and anchor on the hump and throw out to the deeper water. It seems that I catch them right on the slope of the hump where it goes from 21' to 50' on a steep slope. I hear of others catching them on bulkheads, but not as big as the ones I catch out in the midlake area on humps.