ok so the plan is as of now me and kevin are going to whitney for a overnighter i cant wait to get into that great action again wooo hooo!!!!

good luck......& post up some JA pics tomorrow!!

Cool, good luck guys.

Good Luck yall guys! Get a biggin!

So? How did you guys do?

sorry for not posting warlyer today i had to get some sleep first lol..

well we got there at 9:30 pm and we got site 31 cause of the cut grass and it just looked better than the one i had during the cagi.. we set up and baited up and i figured it would be not stop action but it was kinda slow, however i did catch 12 carp on range cubes and 10mm rosehip poped up boilies and kevin caught 7 on sweet corn and boilies we didnt stay all night cause there was a few dead carp floating around us and the possums and racoons kept making them really smell lol so we left at 4am but it was a good night?

19 carp is kinda slow, CAGI must have trained em. Did you catch any perch or catfish?

Chris, did you guys plumb the swim? The water at site 31 if only 4-5 feet deep for a long ways out.

Down there at site 28 where you guys were the night of the cagi, you were fishing about 8 foot of water and Tracy was fishing about 12 foot. He caught the bigger fish because of that.

The fish I caught from site 31 were caught by casting way out there by that marker bouy I'd dropped. It was 12 feet deep out there.

Could you tell what killed the carp?

no we didnt plumb the swim,kevin got 1 carp that died afterwards it was really skinny and didnt have body weight to it and the other one was actullay a baby buffalo but we could tell what happend to them.

There were a ton of dead carp and buffalo the last time I was there almost 2 weeks ago. I remember making a comment to my nephew that there sure were alot. I hope there is not something bad happening there.

As for the fishing, we were white bass fishing on the lake. However, we went down below the dam and caught some 4-10 pounders in the spillway from the deck. It was fun. There were alot of them down there. You could see them swimming everywhere.

i wonder if its just the shallow water and this heat ?

I suspect it is the old kill it and throw it back thing that goes on all the time.

the old kill......i dont see why throwing a carp back would do it these carp were small one 2 to 3 pounds...what is the old kill?

People sticking them with knives and then throwing them back.

oh ok thats crazy

hmm...there was pretty large Carp kill at Lake Cleburne a while back, hundreds were found dead floating around. The official word was stress from spawning. How many dead fish are you guys seeing at Whitney? If it's only a dozen or less I wouldn't be concerned, but if it's dozens or near 100 or more, I would report it.

Also, what size fish are you guys catching at Whitney? Thanks.

we saw maybe 5 floating and from what iv heard from other people is carp up to 15lbs and buffalo up to 25lbs

Thanks BC. I only live about 30min from Whitney, and the times that I have fished it have produced Carp/Buffs in the same range. Though I've had many peeps tell me there are some huge Buffs in there.

Yeah, huge buffs is the "rumor" hehe, there are definitely some big ones in there.

let me know when your ready to do a long session there and ill get a site

Plus there are alot of bowfishermen there, they had a big tourney out there a few weeks ago. We used to bowfish for them years ago, it was not uncommon to shoot a couple hundred carp/gar/buffalo in a night.

Bowfishing post are not allowed in this section!! Take it back to the trailor

Oh yeah, there was a tourney there. I wonder if that is what it's from. Couldn't be that though... I'm sure they properly disposed of all the fish seein as how it was a tournament and all...

WTF!!!!! will someone please move/delete those pics?

They are supposed to take them to a rendering plant.

Entirely too much insensitivity to the poor bowfishers around here.

The urge to kill, not to grill, wins out again. Too bad...

I'm sure the TPWD would love to know about all those catfish taken to the rendering plant.

Rules are for nothing and there is no moderation unless I'm the one getting censored! LMAO

I remember some good times at whitney. Would always go to old fort park and fish off the point. Camping out overnite was a blast there. I dont know what would hit my line, but I remember chashin my rod more than once. Would try and set up camp in the middle of the point, then usin cotten seed meal and bread for dough bait, would cast out as far as I could, then walk back to camp reelin off line as I went. Put a rock on the rod and wait. Wouldnt be long and the race was on, chasin my rod before it hit the water. Big buffs in that lake, caught some up to 20#'s but never did catch what was pullin my rod in the lake.

Old Fort park was always my favorite till the Corps iron pipe fenced it off. Did they ever take the pipe down?

Its been awhile since ive been there, dont ever remember the point being piped off. Some of the other areas was, like the camp grounds with tables an such.

whats the weight of the long nose in that last photo? that thing his huge?

also, these photos are sort of a taboo in our section. I will leave it up for now......

ugh..... for pitty sake.

great let this get out of control and then youll lock it up!

I mean come on... the rule says...
"Please do NOT post bowfishing topics in this section. All such topics will be moved or deleted. "

Ok, so it's not a thread. but it's a topic that is obviously not wanted here.

Reported.

Why does it seem no one wants do do anything till it's out of control?

Why does it seem no one wants do do anything till it's out of control?

A. I don't believe the person was posting to get a rise out of the hard core rough fish anglers.

B. It gives people a good idea of what sort of fish are in Whitney.

C. It shows people what a couple of people are able to harvest in a short time while bowfishing.

D. most importantly its not a topic but a post in a thread, again while we might not like it its a legal means of harvest and I see more catfish there then anything else, I doubt they went uneaten.

E. By acting like crazy people...while most of us appreciate the joys of rough fish angling many do not....we may very well turn off other anglers that don't share the same appreciation for carp, gar, buffalo, drum...ect....that we do.

F. You will catch more flies with sugar then you will with vinegar!

ok i c ur point

I couldn't believe they piped off the boat ramp and picnic tables. They petitioned the Corps manager and he said it was his lake and he'll do what he wants. Think I'll go down there this week and fish some.