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#4041526 - 10/12/09 10:40 PM
Whitney smallies
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Extreme Angler
Registered: 07/03/08
Posts: 1953
Loc: Lake Whitney, TX
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Well I live here on the lake and was wondering if anyone still catches any good smallmouth on the lake. I never hear of reports or anything of anyone catching them. Now I know we had the algae bloom, but I don't recall seeing them dead floating everywhere. Plus every other species in the lake has recouped and is doing fine now.
Is the lake still a good smallie fishery?
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#4042092 - 10/13/09 08:01 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: joho5]
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Outdoorsman
Registered: 01/12/06
Posts: 203
Loc: Burleson
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I have worked three tournaments and fished in a couple more in the last two years and none have come to the scales. So no it is not good. Go catch one and prove me wrong.
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#4042140 - 10/13/09 08:19 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: lunkerloser]
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Extreme Angler
Registered: 11/21/08
Posts: 1101
Loc: somervell county
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I fish Whitney semi-regular and I dont run across them like I used to. I target LMB but would always run across a SMB or two in a day of fishing. Not so much lately. They actually started declining well before recent Golden Algea scares. 15 years ago people targeted the smallies, even targeting trophys, but I havent seen anyone fishing exclusivily for them in years. Some in the Brazos River below the dam. Park your bassboat and get in a canoe! Probably needs a shot in the arm from TPW in the form of stockings. Doubt they will contact me for input! Want some good ones? Texoma is your best bet.
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#4042163 - 10/13/09 08:26 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Drpeede]
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Extreme Angler
Registered: 11/21/08
Posts: 1101
Loc: somervell county
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Whats your brother-in-laws secret?
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#4042413 - 10/13/09 09:43 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: 361V]
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Pro Angler
Registered: 08/25/08
Posts: 564
Loc: Whitney
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Don't know he can catch a fish in a water puttle. I watch heim catch about a 4lber on a slab. Right now he is catching them along the rocky points pretty regular, but i have not been able to go out with him
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#4042430 - 10/13/09 09:48 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Drpeede]
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Extreme Angler
Registered: 07/03/08
Posts: 1953
Loc: Lake Whitney, TX
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I have been fishing rocky points, ledges, etc...been doing well for largemouth, but no smallies.
I keep thinking I should get one here or there, but no luck.
Fishing jigs / crankbaits.
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#4042476 - 10/13/09 09:58 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: joho5]
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Pro Angler
Registered: 08/25/08
Posts: 564
Loc: Whitney
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#4044922 - 10/13/09 08:52 PM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: joho5]
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Angler
Registered: 10/01/09
Posts: 306
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I use to to take off work this time of year and go wack on them smallies, but the last few years it seemed to be less and less.. I havent caught one on that lake in so long I wonder if any survived the golden bloom.. 
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#4045292 - 10/13/09 10:15 PM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: senko9S]
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Outdoorsman
Registered: 05/30/07
Posts: 222
Loc: Whitney
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I hate to do it, but I got to call BS on anyone going to Whitney and regularly catching smallies. My father and I have spent an absurd amount of hours on the water there over the past 20 years, and while at one time you could target and catch a quality bunch of smallies, those times are long gone. You are more likely to run into Bigfoot at the state park, then catch a legal limit of smallies. I know there will be naysayers, so post a dated pic and prove me wrong.
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#4045308 - 10/13/09 10:17 PM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Serene One]
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Outdoorsman
Registered: 05/30/07
Posts: 222
Loc: Whitney
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Joho5 make a run to Belton, we have caught a bunch there this year on our tourney trips there.
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#4045388 - 10/13/09 10:32 PM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Serene One]
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Extreme Angler
Registered: 07/03/08
Posts: 1953
Loc: Lake Whitney, TX
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just fishing rocky ledges, and rocky banks on belton?
I have never been to that lake.
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#4045432 - 10/13/09 10:44 PM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: joho5]
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Outdoorsman
Registered: 05/30/07
Posts: 222
Loc: Whitney
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Yes, just use some of the same strategies there you have been trying on whitney and you will connect with some. Our media tourney there last year the wining bag was over 20 lbs. with 1 largemouth and 4 smallies. There were also many other teams that had some in there bags. I believe we weighed about a 2.5 pounder caught on a DD22.
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#4045459 - 10/13/09 10:55 PM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Serene One]
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Angler
Registered: 08/08/07
Posts: 446
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Yes, just use some of the same strategies there you have been trying on whitney and you will connect with some. Our media tourney there last year the wining bag was over 20 lbs. with 1 largemouth and 4 smallies. There were also many other teams that had some in there bags. I believe we weighed about a 2.5 pounder caught on a DD22. Are you talking about Belton or Whitney here?
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#4045473 - 10/13/09 11:02 PM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: iworksoicanfish]
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TFF Team Angler
Registered: 04/18/05
Posts: 4643
Loc: Waco
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every year i see maybe 2 smallmouth weighed in a year at whitney. they are there but not very many. its also hard to believe that someone is catching smallmouth regularly out there.
belton on the other hand is a amazing smallmouth lake.
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#4045795 - 10/14/09 06:44 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Skeeter TZX 200]
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Pro Angler
Registered: 04/19/07
Posts: 566
Loc: Burleson, TX
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I would agree that the smallies have demished or disappeared in Whitney... I fish Whitney most every week... in 2000 thru 2005 we caught some nice ones while targeting blacks... Carolina rigs with small worms on sandy points and top water along the rocks / ledges ... several 5lbs or so (including one 19 incher that we didn't weigh)... but, the last few years we haven't caught any in the same spots and we have hunted for them.... but then again.. we have narrowed our tactics specifially for blacks... smallies tend not to hit big lures.
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#4046102 - 10/14/09 08:37 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Serene One]
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Pro Angler
Registered: 08/25/08
Posts: 564
Loc: Whitney
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I hate to do it, but I got to call BS on anyone going to Whitney and regularly catching smallies. My father and I have spent an absurd amount of hours on the water there over the past 20 years, and while at one time you could target and catch a quality bunch of smallies, those times are long gone. You are more likely to run into Bigfoot at the state park, then catch a legal limit of smallies. I know there will be naysayers, so post a dated pic and prove me wrong. Call BS then and have a good day. Just because you don't catch them it must mean that they just don'r exist, I guess that just about the jist of it
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#4046468 - 10/14/09 09:55 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Drpeede]
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Extreme Angler
Registered: 07/03/08
Posts: 1953
Loc: Lake Whitney, TX
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i have a hard time believing that a lake that big and deep, you would be able to catch all of a species of fish out of it.
With that said, I dont catch any, and I used to here and there.
do you think the longer they were in the lake, they adapted and went to more of a smallmouth pattern of really deep structure, rock piles, etc???
and maybe people dont fish that method as much, or as well?
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#4046559 - 10/14/09 10:16 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: joho5]
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Pro Angler
Registered: 08/25/08
Posts: 564
Loc: Whitney
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I agree with you joho5. I am not the one catching them myself, I just don't have the touch or something. There are reports of the stockings, where i can't remember, but my brother-in-law tols me he caught 3 small ones the other day in one spot. That is good news to me that little ones are in the lake also. I never stated that a bag of good keepers was caught. We are going to try the deeper structure and rock piles this evening and let you know how we did.
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#4046819 - 10/14/09 11:14 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Drpeede]
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Extreme Angler
Registered: 03/14/05
Posts: 1683
Loc: Hill county
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WHITNEY STOCKING HISTORYSpecies Year Number Stocked Size
Bass, Florida Largemouth 2004 589,978 Fingerling
Bass, Florida Largemouth 2003 760,159 Fingerling
Bass, Florida Largemouth 1986 151,900 Fingerling
Bass, Florida Largemouth 1985 204,099 Fingerling
Bass, Largemouth 1971 220,000
Bass, Largemouth 1969 350,000
Bass, Largemouth 1968 250,000
Bass, Largemouth 1966 280,000
Bass, Smallmouth 2004 5,609 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 2000 589,849 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1999 351,302 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1998 353,100 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1997 714,665 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1996 333,282 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1995 40,670 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1994 262,402 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1992 29,253 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1986 149,135 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1985 202,143 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1984 235,505 Fingerling
Bass, Smallmouth 1983 65,400
Bass, Striped 2009 543,846 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 2008 332,262 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 2007 495,015 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 2006 322,532 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 2005 332,999 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 2004 84,184 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 2003 223,892 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 2002 353,587 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 2001 1,400,000 Fry
Bass, Striped 2000 476,600 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1999 236,400 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1998 145,768 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1997 235,226 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1996 113,057 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1995 237,566 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1994 448,490 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1992 123,161 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1991 331,827 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1990 240,219 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1989 235,923 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1988 235,900 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1987 358,757 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1986 354,130 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1985 172,115 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1984 351,581 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1976 232,123
Bass, Striped 1975 17,090
Bass, Striped 1974 229,291 Fingerling
Bass, Striped 1973 267,711 Fingerling
Bluegill 2005 13,747 Fingerling
Catfish, Blue 1966 8,000
Catfish, Channel 1970 61,000
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#4046940 - 10/14/09 11:39 AM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Serene One]
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Pro Angler
Registered: 05/19/08
Posts: 621
Loc: Central, Texas
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I hate to do it, but I got to call BS on anyone going to Whitney and regularly catching smallies. My father and I have spent an absurd amount of hours on the water there over the past 20 years, and while at one time you could target and catch a quality bunch of smallies, those times are long gone. You are more likely to run into Bigfoot at the state park, then catch a legal limit of smallies. I know there will be naysayers, so post a dated pic and prove me wrong. Just because you can't catch them doesn't mean no one else can. I have fished Belton for ~18 years. I never caught a smallmouth until 2 years ago. I don't know why, I just never did. I always heard the stories about what a great smallmouth fishery Belton was and saw them brought to the scales at tournaments all the time. Now, I catch smallies on nearly every trip out there, even in the middle of summer. So, if I didn't fish any tournaments before I started catching them, I guess I would have been justified in calling BS on anyone that said they caught them.......following your logic. By the way, he never said anything about catching a legal limit. You should know that if you find smallies, you will almost always catch several quickly since they tend to stack up. My brother-in-law has been catching them on almost every trip lately, and some very nice ones also. I have yet to catch one myself but my time is comming. Don't know he can catch a fish in a water puttle. I watch heim catch about a 4lber on a slab. Right now he is catching them along the rocky points pretty regular, but i have not been able to go out with him
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#4047556 - 10/14/09 01:41 PM
Re: Whitney smallies
[Re: Drpeede]
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Angler
Registered: 08/08/07
Posts: 446
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Mr. Drpeede,
Just curious what you would charge to take me to Whitney so I could catch a small mouth, I have only caught one in my life which was on Texoma. I have been fishing Whitney for about 5 years and have never caught one there.
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