Special thanks to TFF Member David(maxwell5076)and his girlfriend, Sheena for spending a day on the Brazos River with River Run Guide Service.



For the second time this month, I have had the priveledge of fishing with David. I think it is safe to say he has "got the Bug" in regards to kayak fishing the Brazos River.

David and Sheena enjoy the outdoors together, however this would be Sheena's first time fishing out of a kayak.

Fact is, this trip was a last minute suprise birthday gift to his girlfriend, Sheena, who wanted to come experience the Brazos and see firsthand what the "kayak fishing buzz" is all about.

On the day of our trip, we had a few early AM thundershowers pop up. Dave and Sheena were already en route and upon their arrival at the launch, the brunt of the storm hits. At this point, I suggest my guests head lakeside for a cup of coffee until things clear out a little while I wait, since the kayaks were already rigged and in the water.

The late start didn't hurt us a bit and it wound up being a fabulous day with great weather and fishing.

During the course of our trip, Sheena continued the longstanding River Run Guide Service tradition of female anglers outdoing their male counterparts for big fish honors.

However, David was able to rally a comeback with a largemouth in the 20-22" range CPR'd in the final hour of our trip.

Davids catch occured just moments after Sheena had a heart-wrenching light tackle breakoff of a fish I estimated beetween 23-25" after seeing it come cartwheeling out of the water less than 5 feet from our kayaks.

My guests CPR'd fish throughout the day, but the final hour of our trip was something I don't think any of us will forget.

At one point, we had numerous 20" plus largemouth bass boiling the water all around the kayaks and my clients were able to target hookups by sight casting. Pretty cool stuff!

Our total fish count for the day was close to 40 fish with several different species caught including striped, largemouth, smallmouth, spotted and white bass with a few channel cats up to 25" mixed in.

Here are a few shots from some of the action...


David gets us kicked off with his first river striper.



Sheena with one of quite a few white bass caught on our trip.



Out and about on the river.




As is usual, it was the largemouth that kept us busy most of the day.





This is one of those "what happens next?" shots. Actually, two things are happening in this photo.

1. David is demonstrating the excellent stability of the Ocean Kayak Scrambler XT while going toe to fin with a fiesty river largemouth letting off a full head of steam.

2. His fish is preparing to absolutely, irrretrievably bury itself in the pictured brushpile.



"What happens next?" is probably better described by David and I hope he will jump in on my post with his account of what happened. I'm not that fond of "hero stories", especially when they involve me. However, I will give you a hint...

David got to CPR his bass (pictured) and I now, begrudgingly, nickname this particular stretch of water "The Phone Hole". lol



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Throughout the day, my guests were drawn into the river and wadefished to escape the midday heat.




Then it was back in the yaks for continued action.




Here is Sheena with her best largemouth of the trip. You go girl!



More action...



Here is David with his best fish of the trip.



Now for the release.



Check out the cool video of Davids fish as it swims off into the river depths...



The "Dynamic Duo".



I can't say enough about what a pleasure it was to have the opportunity to share a day on the Brazos with David and Sheena.

Congratulations to both of you on some fine catches.

Hope your Birthday was a happy one, Sheena.

Until next time...

these are good pictures....

Great write up and great pics!

Lots of good pictures there.

thanks for the report, one of the best ones.

Hey thanks again Shane for an excellent adventure on the great Brazos. Sheena and I were fishing near a brushpile and saw 2 snakes go in it while we were fishing. Not long after, I hung a good one and of course the fish goes straight for the brush and gets hung up. Well Shane, being the best guide he can possibly be, says hold on and I will go over and rescue the fish. Well we watch him paddle over and were thinking he would just reach down from the kayak and pull on the line. Well much to our suprise, he bails out of the yak and goes under for a few seconds, then comes up out of the snake infested brush pile with my prize LMB!! It was very cool of him to do that! Unfortunately, Shane had his cell phone in his pocket when he jumped in the water and it was ruined. And this friends is how the great brushpile honey hole got it's name "Phone Hole".....Way to go Shane you are the man!