Saturday, my friends BigDad and MarkC joined me for fishing expedition on Lake Lewisville. The total for our ages is 180 years and you would think the fish would just jump in the boat. Well that did not happen. We did manage 26 fish dead sticking in 45-56 feet of water. It was a pleasure to be out with the low wind and comfortable temperatures. The water was a cool 49 degrees at the surface and who knows what it was down on the bottom. The venerable slab was by far the best bait and I discovered that you could feel the bite with the heaver slab. The fish were hitting the slab from the bottom and the line would just go slack. It was easier to detect with the 1 to 1 1/2 ounce slab.
There were not many fishermen out and they all seemed to be catching fish at about the same rate as we were. A couple of guys in a red bass boat near us were catching one after another for a while. I am sure they were members of the TFF, but I could not identify them.
We caught a couple of small blue cats and BigDad landed about three small hybrids and the rest were whites of various sizes.

MarkC did not want me to take his picture, but Bigdad with a small hybrid and myself with a small white are pictured below. All three of us agreed that dead sticking in cold water could be our weakest link.

Way to grind them out Don.
Johnny

Looks like a really nice day on the water. Glad you caught a few and had a good day.

Where have you been my friend?

I forgot to mention one fact from Saturday. We had at least 100 hits, maybe more. Just could not hook up.

i thought that was you in the Polar. We were in the white Procraft bass boat fishing mostly to the south of you by a couple hundred yards. We did about the same as you guys did.

Don, I've seen you fishing. You don't HAVE a weak link!!

I fished Lake Fork on Friday and then fished LL on Sunday. Fishing Fork was a mistake because it made LL rather depressing. I caught a lot of fish on LL on Sunday but they were mostly small. I caught a few keeper size but released them all. I like LL very much and want the fishing to return to is best days. Right now it is not that great.

It has not been that great for almost 2 years in my opinion. Pastor John, could you give a comprehensive report on you lake Fork trip?

was out there as well we where about 300 yards NE of you we ended up with 13 keeper catfish and 0 white bass the wife and kid had a good time, my neighbor was out in his pontoon and couldn't buy a bite fishing right next to us, so I gave him the fish... Im getting burnt out on catfish. and they are messy in the boat

Stop by and say hello nogeese!

Don, I went to Fork with Gene, David and Todd. We had a guide, Gary Paris. Fishing was slow that day and most of our fish were caught by 11am. We used three inch pearl flukes with flies tied above. We caught less than 20 sandies but they were big, all over 2 pounds. We also caught some big crappie and a few catfish. I would really like to go back and do that again.

I really hope this year is better... or I may be hitting texoma this summer... And will do Pastor john... I just don't like pulling up on people while they are fishing don't want to get the stink eye

If you see me catching fish, feel free to come over and join in. I won't give you the stink eye and I will enjoy the company.

will do same goes for you

It was fun Don, beautiful day and really enjoyed the company.

Oh, and your thumping stick is cool:)