Nice! I used to go fish this point from the bank a lot last spring after seeing a post from Prosise where I was catching them here. Was a decent bank fishing spot if you don't mind a 10min walk on the bike trails.

Great looking rig ! The more problems I experience with the new boat I have , the more enticing this looks .

Prosise, that's a good beat on the thumper....you're likely to attract both sandbass AND party cove inhabitants to your spot!

That is absolutely crazy catching a hybrid on Grapevine they have not been stocked there in many years.

Lets hope not. If you where around in the 80's when TPWD stocked them, then you know how Grapevine went from great to terrible. They never stocked again because the Hybrids ate themselves out of house and home. only thing that survived were catfish. Even the bluegill went to hell. Lake is to small to sustain that population.Before the stocking My largest Crappie was 3.5 lbs after could not find one 6inches long and largemouth nonexistent..I have fished Grapevine since 1978.

Probably came from a bird from Lewisville or maybe someone brought it over. Looks to be a juvenile. It wouldn't surprise me if one came from Bridgeport too. Pretty cool!

I think some of them people were saw down by the rocks might have brought them in. Up to no good, I tell ya!

In all seriousness if there was a species living in this lake, Prosise caught it! Nice to see and we'll make dang sure to check the patches/stripes!

Also Prosise I am sending you a PM about grapevine and the upcoming CAST event - have a couple questions

When I say I caught a lot of sandbass, I ain't kidding. (Remember , smaller size spoon). I tried the normal large spoon again, and it sucked. Fish with a couple of suspects until they decided to leave me all alone. I had to fend for myself, but we had a good time. The fish moved out a little deeper, and they are very thick. I had to record a little video because it's hard to explain how many fish are in these schools. Fish are reacting to the bait, I'm popping it and they're reacting to it. But you got to keep your bait down on the bottom, and twitch it up or real three or four cranks. I was using the thumper and I was catching a lot More fish. If you stay off of them and cast to the hump, they won't move very far and you can really catch a lot. The schools are moving, so the livescope really shines. Right off the drop in the deeper water I started catching catfish, and picked up a really big buffalo.
In the video, check out the 3:30 minute mark to see some of the bigger schools.

Between the four areas I listed in the past week, you should be able to go to the exact waypoint and check for fish. They are favoring the humps and ledges. I fished around this set of humps for over 5 hours, and I started to figure it the catfish. The Sandbass will not hit the spoon of you move it really slow through them, and if I saw a bigger fish I could weed through the Sandbass to reach the catfish. Saw several schools (6-8 catfish) in a group come in and attack the Sandbass. With 10 braid they were a piece of cake, the drum didn't know it was hooked. After it saw me, it was a 10 minute battle.












Buffalo sniping, caught it at the 26 sec mark.