Unbelievable Gibbons Creek Res 5-9-09

[obiewan57]

There are people that do not believe this when I tell them, I might not either if I had not been part of it. I had regular customers Carol Thompson of Bellaire, son Chris, and friend Pete. We wet the first hook at 7:15 am, we had 50 fish in the cooler by 8:00 am, by 10:30 we had 74 fish in the cooler and had caught and released 75 fish...why stop here...By 12:45 the day ended with a total of 251 legal sized fish caught. All released except the 75 taken to the cleaning table.

If you try to calculate that, it comes to about 1 fish every 1 1/2 minutes for 5 1/2 hours. Needless to say the guide did not wet a hook, but I tied on and baited a bunch of hooks that day. A song comes to mind when I think about it..."You Should Have Seen It In Color" http://www.fishingtx.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

Congrats to Carol, Chris, and Pete on a fine day of fishing.

All fish were caught at the same place the anchor was tossed at 7:10 am.
All caught in 1-2 foot water on CJ's Shad Punch bait.

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Weldon Kirk
www.fishtales-guideservice.com (http://www.fishtales-guideservice.com)

[elkhunter49]

Now that's a heck of a day. Well Done and thanks for the report.

[NitroNX898]

Yep, one of these days I will make a trip to Gibbons Creek. I have never fished it and hate to make the drive to not catch anything. What a trip you had, Congrats

[NitroNX898]

I know you are a guide and this is how you make your living, but how do you know what is a good spot from a bad spot. I am looking at some where to go in the morning. Lake Houston is 15 minutes, Lake Conroe is 1 hour and Gibbons is about 2 hrs and Livingston is an hour.

[kim e cooper]

Nice job Weldon thats alot of fish to clean.

[Titus Bass]

WTG Weldon nice catch......Looks like fun....until the cleaning starts....

[Ronborsk]

I love it when you have to hide to bait your hook!

[firedog]

What type of electric knife do you use? To clean as many fish as you do it must be red hot when you finish. God bless Texas firedog

[obiewan57]

I usually use American Angler knife, remove the curved blades and put 9 inch Mister Twister blades on as soon as I buy it. My electric knives have cleaned over 2000 fish this year, and they are not new, they are a couple years old, so far mostly just replace the blades.