Midday cats

[shadslinger]

White bass have scattered from the hump but can still be caught around the island trolling. The catfish are still bitting well midday in the middle of the lake. I caught 4 this morning from 2lbs to about 15lbs on cut mullet/perch.

[roger1shot]

Hey
What lake are you talking about?
Sounds like Lake Somerville?

[LongRodMaster]

Slinger is on Livingston..

[shadslinger]

I went to livingston again today, I caght a limit of nice sized whites, many over 15". I got there early and kept 18 out of about 50. they quite at 9:30 am. Then I went back at 6:00 and stayed untill dark. I caght 4 nice blues, one about 10lbs, and about twenty whites and lots of 17 3/4" stripres. Caught all of the fish at the hump.

[Guyj]

Shadslinger, is that hump closer to the dam than it is to the island? There is a lot of deep water around the island. How deep you trollin'? I'll be fishing the 190 end on Sunday through tuesday.

Get yer bite on!
Guy

[shadslinger]

I usually vertical jig for whitebass with slab or willow leaf style spoons, if I can't find them then I troll with four rods with jet divers and pet spoons on 18 to 24" leaders. I use two 20' jet divers and one 30' and one 10'. Then switch every rod to the depth that's getting hit the most, or stop and jig where I find them.The hump is about 1.5 miles from the state park ramp about 260 degrees NW on a line towards the east end of the island. It is about .5 mile or more from the island to the south, sotheast. There is a spot where the water is 19' at this time, and a large top that has 22' foot water. The river comes close by and it drops to 60'+ going northeast real quick, the water to the south side of the hump is about 35'. There is usually a few boats around early and late. I hope you catch them on the roadbed and I will be looking for the report.

[surf-n-turf]

Sounds like your still doing good. Save me a few, I'll be there soon.

[ar_mcadams]

I went to livingston again today, I caght a limit of nice sized whites, many over 15". I got there early and kept 18 out of about 50. they quite at 9:30 am. Then I went back at 6:00 and stayed untill dark. I caght 4 nice blues, one about 10lbs, and about twenty whites and lots of 17 3/4" stripres. Caught all of the fish at the hump.
you should change you name to Mr. WhiteBass. Glad you till catching them, I may go this weekend and try it.

[shadslinger]

Whites are a really cool gamefish, willing, hard fighters, and take arties great. I caught my first about 45 years ago in lake Arlington, close to Ft. Worth, while bass fishing with my dad. I said "what kind of fish is this?" he said white bass! and started casting to them! we caught a million of them out of that lake over the next 3 decades.
I think they deserve their own site here, what do you say maybe "White&Stripes"? They are related and both great gamefish.