7+ white bass limits by noon

**Slim-N-None** · #1 02-27-2009, 08:20 PM

we went last night and didn't do any good (10 total) till the sun came up. we caught 3 limits on my boat (biggest went almost 4 on the boga) and the other boat that went had 4+ limits (5 guys) we had double, triple, and quadruple hookups. everybody we talked to had 5 or 6. guess it was just our day.

**sac-a-lait** · #2 02-27-2009, 08:51 PM

where did you catch them?

**SaltH2oAssassin** · #3 02-27-2009, 10:16 PM

Lake? Creek? Stream? Pond? Ditch?

Nice stringer. WTG

**cookie** · #4 02-28-2009, 08:22 AM

yeah thats what i was thinking don't want your spots or gps numbers but was it in north america?

**Slim-N-None** · #5 02-28-2009, 08:31 AM

thanks, i had been up 40 hrs when i wrote that report. i forgot to mention some of the details. it was up on the trinity river around the hwy 19 bridge. That pic is only the stringer from my boat. most were caught trolling and it got pretty crazy but loads of fun with the multiple hookups. they didn't care what we were draggin or the color or the depth (although i'de say the ones running 8-10' foot deep put better fish in the boat). we had everything from red and white to chartruse and they wore every one of them out. we were only working about a mile of water also. we were only keeping ones bigger then 11" we caught over 125 i'de say and the other boat had well over 200.

**Meadowlark** · #6 02-28-2009, 12:42 PM

S-N-N,

I'm wondering if those were post-spawn fish headed back to the main lake?

From the picture, its hard to tell, but does look like you either have a lot of males or post spawn females.

Now my question, if you don't mind, were most of your catches trolling upstream or downstream directions...or did you not notice a difference?

Here's why I ask...and I'm just trying to learn everything I can about whites in the Livingston watershed...all fish I'm familiar with in a school will usually not take an artificial that is moving towards them...but one moving away from them is more natural and triggers the strike instincts. Generally, a bait fish or anything else in the water does not swim toward the predator, but away from....hence a lure trolled toward a school is far less effective than one trolled away.

So, my theory, which I tested earlier a few times at Riverside is that if you caught most of your fish trolling downstream, then these are post-spawn fish.

May sound crazy to some and maybe it is with all the millions of shad in the water moving all directions...but I think I'm on to something.
Thanks.

**Slim-N-None** · #7 02-28-2009, 03:09 PM

i'de say 80% of all the fish from both boats had eggs or milt, that photo doesn't do them justice. if i remember correctly those two big uns down in front you can see were 3 1/2 lbs apiece and ready to burst. we caught them going upstream and downstream. didn't matter we would mark fish and as soon as the lure went around the area bam- fish on. we caught 29 going downstream then turned around and got 25 on the way back.

**Meadowlark** · #8 03-01-2009, 06:56 PM

Thats good news. Says to me that the spawn still hasn't happened there..but the clock is ticking and time runing out. Thanks.

**shadslinger** · #9 03-01-2009, 07:18 PM

All of the white bass appear to be waiting for another rain to trigger a run upstream to spawn. The white bass I saw at White Rock Creek last week were all close to the lake, and whites around the 19 bridge at this time indicate to me that they are staged up and waiting for a stronger current to go up the streams and spawn.
They do seem to be on the cuff of either spawning or re-absorbing their eggs.
Years like this with little rain will often find them spawning on main points of the lake, like around the South West end of the island and just about any wind swept point where the current set up by the wind will keep their eggs from getting silted over.
That was a heck of a catch and a good report Slim-N-None.

**Slim-N-None** · #10 03-01-2009, 08:46 PM

thanks shadslinger, I like to give the detailed reports cause I like to think it helps people put their kids on fish. I do have one question, are the guys fishing the river as tight lipped as the guys on the coast when the fishing is hot? cause i see reports on here and talked to people up there and don't see that much going on unless it is at the lock and dam.