texasfishingforum.com logo
Main Menu
Advertisement
Affiliates
Advertisement
Newest Members
HBYFishing, BeLucky, nick_b_83, Tigershark25, Brad page
118708 Registered Users
Top Posters(All Time)
TexDawg 116,847
hopalong 116,165
Bigbob_FTW 91,162
John175☮ 85,148
Pilothawk 83,056
Bob Davis 75,128
Mark Perry 69,902
Derek 🐝 68,155
JDavis7873 67,416
Forum Statistics
Forums59
Topics1,028,463
Posts13,759,704
Members143,708
Most Online36,273
Jan 23rd, 2013
Print Thread
Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! #13728868 10/12/20 09:50 PM
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 3,265
F
Flags Offline OP
TFF Team Angler
OP Offline
TFF Team Angler
F
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 3,265
So I finally broke away from the "honey do" list my wife made up and got to the lake. It was a spectacular day for float tubing! No wind, trees showing some color, temp were just right and no real humidity. Wasn't sure how the fishing was going to be but it didn't take long to find out. I launched the tube and kicked about 6 or 7 feet from the shore and was rigging up. I dropped an unbaited 1/64th oz jig head into the water about a foot down while I has squaring away my lure box arrangements in the tubes storage pockets and about a 3 inch gill hit the unbaited jig. Yep, less than one minute to the first fish. Took that as a good omen.

I went over to one of my regular spots and put a piece of crawler on the jig head and tossed out. Got this on the very first cast

[Linked Image]

Real nice solid gill of a little over 8 inches and I took fish pretty steadily with all of them running over 6 inches. Was really enjoying myself until this pesky thing showed up and kind of put a slight hold on the sunfish.

[Linked Image]

Nice little bass of about 2 1/2 pounds or so. He was really feisty and jumped 3 or 4 times. I was only fishing 4 lb line so I had to play him out. Funny thing was after I caught the bass the good sized gills shut down and all I was getting were 4 or 5 inchers so I moved to another spot that has been good to me. That was a good plan because a whole bunch on good gills were stacked up there. Not sure how many I pulled out at the 2nd spot but it was at least 30 and they were all solid fish

[Linked Image]

[Linked Image]

One thing I noticed was the fish were really colorful at the second spot. Most of them were gills but I did get a few smaller shell crackers and a couple redbreasts about 6 inches long. When the bite slowed down at the 2nd spot I decided to try one more place. On the first cast and the new place a hung a nice crappie. That kind of surprised me since I have never caught a crappie there before and on the second cast I got the biggest gill of the day.

[Linked Image]

Fish at the last spot were fewer in number but made up for it in size. I had another one of these show up as well

[Linked Image]

and at the end of my time on the water I had about a 3 lb channel cat hit. I kept the cat, the crappie and a few gills for the pan and turned the rest loose.

[Linked Image]

All in all, a really good day on the lake. Almost hate to have to go back to Amarillo, but work calls.

Cheers Y'all.


Retired Navy Chief Signalman
NJROTC Instructor Tascosa High School
Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13728894 10/12/20 09:57 PM
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 12,229
C
Curt0407 Offline
TFF Guru
Offline
TFF Guru
C
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 12,229
Great job. Nice batch of fish.

Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13728977 10/12/20 10:53 PM
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 3,443
O
Osbornfishing Offline
TFF Team Angler
Offline
TFF Team Angler
O
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 3,443
Great diversity. coolphotos

Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13729170 10/13/20 01:12 AM
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 2,596
V
Vogey Online Content
Extreme Angler
Online Content
Extreme Angler
V
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 2,596
Great catch on your home lake...keep those pics coming...love seeing those beautiful fish...

Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13729262 10/13/20 02:14 AM
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 73,527
banker-always fishing Offline
Super Freak
Offline
Super Freak
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 73,527
Love those Athens post. Nice fish Flags. thumb


[Linked Image][Linked Image]

IGFA World Record Rio Grande Cichlid. Lake Dunlap.

John 3:16

Sinner's Prayer. God forgive me a sinner. I accept Jesus Christ as my Savior !
Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13729304 10/13/20 02:53 AM
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 6,441
P
Pot licker Offline
TFF Celebrity
Offline
TFF Celebrity
P
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 6,441
Excellent post Flags! cheers


Texas Elite Angler 🎣
https://www.jiglyf.com
Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13729423 10/13/20 11:54 AM
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 18,825
L
Laker One Offline
TFF Guru
Offline
TFF Guru
L
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 18,825
Solid post and fish. Good job Sir! woot

Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13729488 10/13/20 12:55 PM
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 4,818
G
gar1970 Offline
TFF Team Angler
Offline
TFF Team Angler
G
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 4,818
Good post Flags! Nice variety of eaters food


https://www.Jiglyf.com

TEXAS ELITE ANGLER
Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13729741 10/13/20 04:22 PM
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 10,725
C
cellis Online Content
TFF Guru
Online Content
TFF Guru
C
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 10,725
What a great day! Congrats! cheers

Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13729849 10/13/20 06:39 PM
Joined: Dec 2019
Posts: 139
R
rockyp1017 Offline
Outdoorsman
Offline
Outdoorsman
R
Joined: Dec 2019
Posts: 139
Solid post.


Live Purple, Love Gold!
Geaux Tigers!
Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13730525 10/14/20 11:39 AM
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 17,594
G
Gitter Done Offline
TFF Guru
Offline
TFF Guru
G
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 17,594
Nice post and some super Athens slabs. As always good job Flags.


Aka The "Master of Athens" !

Re: Athens is Still Very Good to Me!!!! [Re: Flags] #13733370 10/16/20 08:07 PM
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 5,136
P
pop r Offline
TFF Celebrity
Offline
TFF Celebrity
P
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 5,136
Nicely done Flags. thumb

Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread

© 1998-2022 OUTDOOR SITES NETWORK all rights reserved USA and Worldwide
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.3