hey hey hey just cause i dont get on here anymore cant leave this white boy out!!!!! hahaha i got beer!!!!

This is what Tommys going to be doing tomorrow evening for me in the boat..nothing but a CHEERLEADER

Boat loaded,gased up...rods rigged up. Ready to hit somerville tomorrow! If i can only get through 8 hrs tomorrow at work! Mr. Doug, you know where to find us tomorrow evening!

Not at Big Creek ramp...it is closed. Richie, I confirmed your msg. with the their office. Our boats can still fit/launch but something must have happened for them to close it. I know that you could get out and walk your boat to the creek channel. Hopefully nobody got hurt. Maybe some folks didn't know or get warned about the sandbar.

Hmm....Its so much easier launching at Big Creek...such a short ride to the hole!

Reports and pics????

Me and Tommy ended up with a unknown figure of crappie and catfish i dont know? I didnt even keep count.. I only caught a few Crappie and Tommy didnt catch many more than I did. But he managed quite a few cats over 3lbs. We got lost heading back to Welch...Ended up at Overlook somehow?

When we left at 11:30pm or so Doug only had a few in the cooler.Dont know what his exact ending number was.
What was very rough, whitecaps the entire lake. Crappie were biting soft, with rods going up and down on the holders the waves raised them 2ft easy, so I think we couldnt keep the bait in the strike zone long enough. But fish were still holding tight to structure in 12-14ft of water.

3 cats and 2 Crappie. The bite was extremely light on the crappie. Missed more than a dozen but keeping the bait in the zone was a chore with the wave action that night. Weather channel had 10mph winds but it was double that.
Sandra was about asleep when a 18-19 inch hybrid got on her line. She didn't have it for long but we got to see it before it broke the line.

Those were some long and skinny channel cats that we caught.

Who was giving directions on your boat that night Richie? I tried calling ya but figured that you had your hands full. We were about to go run and get ya.

Took some family tubing this past wkend. Hated to be out there without a rod and seeing shad jump. Will probably head to lake Palestine this wkend. Last trip there produced a nice hybrid, but will not take the boat this time.

Remember the ZOO at the lake on the 4th of July holiday. My annual 4th of July pic from Rocky boat ramp from several yrs. back.

Remember the parking brake and be patient-

Doug, my directional ability at night is known to be off...by a few MILES! LOL I dont know what I was thinking nor did I know where I was headed! I just knew once I seen a bank I would know where I was. Yeah we forgot to bring the minnow bucket in and we started taking on water. Wasnt going to go through anything like that again! Between trying to get it in the boat and pumping water out it got me off course. But we managed!

The boys caught a few bass..

Great video Ben. Nice to see no trotlines there right now.

The lower part of the lake is so busy with jet setters that I wouldn't run any trotline for fear of getting run over checking it

Off Topic alittle bit....BUT.....

My 3yr old son won First Place in the Kidfish this morning! He won with the longest fish(17 inches) in his age group (6 and Under) We will be heading to Corpus Christi Saltwater Hatchery next June to compete in the Kidfish Classic!

Super catch and congrats to the young angler also what a special day for a dad to enjoy watching his boy bring in a good'un and top it off with a trophy to last a lifetime.
Way to go Dad !!!, keep his interests off the streets for as long as you can.