Belton 25 Aug 13

Great day on the water with BIL (salt water fishing dude), started out slow fishing timber in 12-16fow. Moved shallow and started tearing them up in 5-6fow. At one point we high centered on something in 3fow and caught a couple doubles since we were stuck.

Ended up with 19, all released for another day.

Minnows accounted for a couple of fish, then a few caught on Crazy Angler's Texas Toast, but the ticket today was the grasshopper from Jigum Jigs, tipped with a crappie nibble

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Nice!!! Gotta love a shallow bite. Belton is another lake on my bucket list.

Yes Sir! Belton has been on my radar screen for several months. Guess I had better start planing.


Side Note: Thanks for the report!

love catching them out of shallow timber or brush, surprised me, that they are shallow already. maybe the overcast days have helped some.

sweet!

How about Waco, they started moving in shallow yet??

Nice day sounds like Rick.

What area of Belton? I usually stick around Roger's Park, or occasionally the damn, and I haven't gotten any Crappie yet. Caught about everything else in there while tryin to catch Bass though.

Crappie are always alot of fun! those guys can fight...

Minnows accounted for a couple of fish, then a few caught on Crazy Angler's Texas Toast, but the ticket today was the grasshopper from Jigum Jigs, tipped with a crappie nibble

Great Job..
Thanks for the plug!

Mo problem Matthew, your jigs rock! I need to order some more



Not sure, last trip a couple weeks ago they were at 10-13.

Good luck

sounds like a fun day to me .....
KABOOM ....brother ....
good job ....

Where do you launch with the lake being 11 feet low?

Belton has very long ramps due to the original lake level was 25 feet lower when it was first impounded.

We launched at cedar ridge park. The dock is outa water by about 20 feet or so, and its a looong way down the ramp.

I saw stuff I hadn't seen for years.

be careful out there and wear your pfd and kill switch's

Roger's Park boat ramp is fine... just watch for stumps out there! alot of obstacles out there now!

Belton crappie sure do like that Grasshopper. Nice catch partner.

We lunched from Arrowhead all weekend and it was ok, still a bit low, trim down the motor just enough to feed it water and get out to deeper water before bringing your motor completly down.

My son(14yrs old) and I are knew to fishing lake belton on a boat so we need some help to get on the stripers and cats. Anyone with some experience wish to offer any tips, rigging, bait to use, where, would be much appriciated. And we would love to take along someone to show us what the heck to do. Help please!!

That should have been "launched"! haha

if you are hunting hybrids, the word SANDBAR near rodgers park will be what your looking for,

Thank you!