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Fishing in Texas with my Dad
Apr. 28th, 2007 03:58 pmSo this morning my Dad & I headed out to Lake LBJ to his fish camp. The marina there is under renovation so we went to his friend's house where his boat is curently living to fish from her dock. We had hardly put line in water before a 12" black bass hit my line. He caught a smaller Guadalupe bass in quick succession. We threw them back. Still trying to get set up, I stood up and walked to our stuff and something pulled one of my fishing poles clear into the water and it was lost. Huh. No telling what kind of fish that was, but it must have been big!
Things were quiet for awhile and then we caught another black bass. We figured we had gotten the "dock watchers" and wandered over to the neighbor's dock to see what we could find there. We caught a sunfish and quite a nice catfish which we put in the fish basket in case we caught enough to make it worthwhile to carry him off. Then a nice croppie. It was rising lunchtime so we wandered back to his friend's deck where we had left our snacks. We continued to fish (or rather lose minnows to things that nibbled but didn't catch a hook). Dad decided to walk over to yet another neighbor's dock and caught two more croppie and a fresh water drumfish. The day was rising hot (we had had a lovely overcast morning to fish in) and we decided to take the three croppie and the catfish off to his buddy and head home. So in about five hours we caught six different species and nine fish altogether. It was really nice.
And driving out to Kingsland was really nice, it is almost past the wildflowers season but there were still plenty of yellow daisies, firewheel daisies, indian paintbrush, white thistle, primroses and bluebonnets. I kept wanting to take a picture but it was all along the highway and there wasn't a good way to do so.
We got home around 4pm and I admit to being pretty tired. It was a great day though.
Things were quiet for awhile and then we caught another black bass. We figured we had gotten the "dock watchers" and wandered over to the neighbor's dock to see what we could find there. We caught a sunfish and quite a nice catfish which we put in the fish basket in case we caught enough to make it worthwhile to carry him off. Then a nice croppie. It was rising lunchtime so we wandered back to his friend's deck where we had left our snacks. We continued to fish (or rather lose minnows to things that nibbled but didn't catch a hook). Dad decided to walk over to yet another neighbor's dock and caught two more croppie and a fresh water drumfish. The day was rising hot (we had had a lovely overcast morning to fish in) and we decided to take the three croppie and the catfish off to his buddy and head home. So in about five hours we caught six different species and nine fish altogether. It was really nice.
And driving out to Kingsland was really nice, it is almost past the wildflowers season but there were still plenty of yellow daisies, firewheel daisies, indian paintbrush, white thistle, primroses and bluebonnets. I kept wanting to take a picture but it was all along the highway and there wasn't a good way to do so.
We got home around 4pm and I admit to being pretty tired. It was a great day though.
