I started the day out in the boat with Ken Gaby & Max Jordan. They had been out the morning before and said the bite was slow. I should have taken them for their word
I showed them some spots that had produced good for me in the summer and although we caught a few fish, the areas were almost completely void of fish when watching the graph. We then went to a couple of spots that I had caught the fish staging for the fall migration. Although we marked a few fish, they were not "Lit Up" on the graph like they were the week before
I was thinking that those fish must have moved a little farther in towards shallower water, but I need to get out and graph some more before I can say for sure

OK, let me back up a bit........The new Blue/Glo-treuse color was a mistake. I was attempting to match a color for Ken verbally - doesn't work
The blue was way too dark and the Glo-Treuse tail needed to have a shade of fluorescent green chart added.
But I had such good results with the "Mistake", that I had added it to Belinda's line-up.
Ken gave the actual hand-tie jig he wanted duplicated and I mixed up the new "E Tex Killer", which I gave him some samples and kept some for myself to use. Yesterday's fishing trips was to test this color out

Ok now back to fishing
Ken and I were using the new color, while Max was picking some fish up using the "Go-To Greenie". Only problem was, we just did not find a concentration of fish.
I had plans to fish with David from Shut-Up-And-Fish, but he had to take care of some orders and was late leaving the city. We did more running around than actual fishing, but did catch some quality fish in the process. I got a text from David saying he was about 1/2 of the way here, so Ken and Max dropped me off to get my boat ready and they headed out to find some fish
Find them they did, in 18' of water on a laydown.




Here's Max with a quality fish he caught on a green/white Little rascal


Ken told me that evening that they ended up with 18 quality fish and that the new color had accounted for the most of them
The largest 2 were 1.69#'s and 1.61#'s

Once David and I got on the water, we headed in the opposite direction than what we'd fished in the morning.
Started out in 12 fow and David was the 1st to set the hook and swing a fish aboard. He was using another new color that I'd mixed up for a custom order, but hadn't fished myself yet - Grape/Banana


We hit some of the other areas that I'd found fish on my last solo excursion, but the fish had moved elsewhere for the most part We caught a few nice fish and some shorts in the same spot that I'd finished up on last week, but the fishing was slow.

We ran to another spot in 18 fow and finally got into some quality fish
The wind laid down and the water was flat
But if you kept your bait moving very slowly, you'd get "THUMPED"!


The new "E Tex Killer" This color pattern has worked well for Ken all over the state


Slowly, but surely, from 12 down to 18 fow, we put some "Quality" fish in the box





4 times I got "Thumped", set the hook and the fish would bury up in the bp. I give them a little line and they'd pull it down, but even with giving slack line and jigging, I couldn't get the fish free






Once the bite slowed there, we ran to the "SLOB Tree" and caught a couple more bigguns





The fish again were slow to bite, but once they committed, they inhaled the bait

We were both using light jigs, David a 1/16 for the most part and myself a 1/32. The pattern was to again, slowly lift your bait and let it fall back down. Some of the bites were on the lift, others on the fall, but it had to be moving.

Although we did not get limits, we both agreed the day was a SUCCESS
It's not every day that most of the fish you boat are over 1.25#'s. The only fish I weighed was 1.53 and we both caught larger fish.

Not only is David the best source for your boating equipment needs, he's a pleasure to spend time on the water with

Mr. Ronnie "Hurt'em" Roberts is supposed to be here Sunday, I just hope I can put him on the same quality fish

Note: Notice the new "Mojo" enriched Shut Up And Fish cap I'm sporting

Any fish is a success bud! We had about 40 this morning with a lot of throw backs.

Good job guys!

Thanks Seth! I heard the bite was on this morning
I'm recouping today, hoping they will be turned on tomorrow

Great morning scouting Todd and thanks for working on those colors for me.

Todd no doubt has two killer baits in the blue/glo-truse and the East TX Killer. The Lil Fry was the size they wanted on a slow fall. The Slab Bug in the E. TX. Killer will definitely put fish in the boat. I've used the blue/glo-truse on Belton and had equally good success.

And the Slab Bandit Little Rascal in Pearl Truse was gettin bit regularly also. You had to finesse the fish to get a bite. Slow rise and fall was best Thur and Fri. This morning, best presentation was to put the bait there and keep it still. Some aggressive bites but most fish had to make up their mind before they'd hit it.

Awesome post with some awesome fish. Good job.

Nice. What a beautiful day it was!

their just waiting for "Hurt'em"!

very nice yawl
looks like east of town is doing well
K A B O O M

Enjoyed the report. Thanks for the detail.

Good job Todd I told you to keep that a secret oh you need to sell them ha
HA .

What reel are you using on them long poles? Great ketch's by the way!

Also, that is a interesting knot on the jig. I always use a palomar, what knot was that?

I use Pflueger's. Think David had a Shimano

I use a loop knot

Why a loop knot? I use the palomar to keep the jig horizontal, inquiring minds want to learn.