I made another trip to the steps yesterday. Arrived later in the morning than planned. Water was pretty clear so I had to find some deeper water to fish and the bite was on. I limited out in four hours, it took longer to get a limit this time because I was culling fish, if they were under eleven inches I threw them back. Then a period of time had come where you couldn't buy a bite and I was like, dang, maybe I should have kept those legal smaller fish after all. But it all worked out, yeah I had to fish longer to accomplish a limit, but at least I took home the bigger fish. I probably caught somewhere around fifty fish yesterday, I kept tossing the smaller ones back. When I cleaned these fish I noticed almost everyone of them were males. Out of all the fish I caught before I only had three males out of seventy five fish. So you might say the makles finally made it upstream.
Here's my take on this, (the females look like they are ready to pop), (the males just arrived in big numbers), ( as soon as the water temps rise, the fish will spawn out quickly.) With that said, as soon as the females spawn out they will turn around and haul tail back to the lake, that's what they do. So this could be the shortest time frame to catch spawning whites we have ever seen before. Most of the time you can start catching these fish in early Jan, but this year no one was catching them until late Feb. early March. Oh well, just my idea on what might happen, heck maybe this year they will spawn all the way through April.

I had several people fishing across the river say, man, if you don't mind me asking, what kind of bait are you using? And I tell them what it is. The truth is, it is all about presentation more than the bait. You have to trick these fish into striking your bait. This stands true to all artificial baits. You just got a know what to throw at different species or what works best for yourself. I call these my confident baits, you know the ones I can get some decent results from.

Had a pretty good afternoon on Willis creek Friday. Found (saw) the whitebass pretty quickly but not much bit until after about 4PM. Started slow then peaked around 5:30. I didn't "load the boat" but the dozen or so I did catch were worth the 4 hour round trip from Bryan. J-Moe even caught a few..

Jared,
You been out yet?