Post by Bob Smith (Porko) on Jul 4, 2010 13:15:33 GMT -1
Robert Haas (Lkg4deer) and I left about 7PM Friday evening and drove to G-ville and fished all night and half a day on Saturday. We did NOT fish the ledges! lol! We fished for pad fish and size. The pads we fished were relative to the channel and we fished the side away from the channel. Black and Red spinner baits were the ticket through the dark hours and 10" worms (with about 1" bitten off) during the daylight hours on Saturday. The wind blew all night and on Saturday morning so the topwater bite was non-existent (a few blow ups but no hookups). Our total was about 15 fish with only 2-3 that were under the 15" mark. Below were the best fish of the trip. There were a number of fish between the 2 and 3 pound mark that we didn't take pictures of.
Here's Robert with the first fish of the night, between 3 and 4 pounds. This is the one that convinced us to concentrate on the spinnerbait!
Here's another in the 3 pound class by Robert
At this point I was catching slightly smaller fish and Robert was muscling in the bigger guys.
Then Robert raised the bar again with this 5 pound 15 oz fish
Another view of her
Finally the sun came up and the spinnerbait bite fell off, but the fish were still in the pads. We managed a few fish between 14 and 18" then I stuck this 5 lb 1 oz fish
Things pretty much died off after that and we pulled out of the water about 11 AM CSDT and headed home. I ain't so sure I can do those marathon trips too much anymore! lol! After working all day Friday, then fishing all night and half the next day, and driving 2 1/2 hours back home, I had leg cramps off and on all night Saturday night! LOL! I survived and it was fun. My only regret is that the wind blew all night and pretty much dashed any hopes of the buzzbait and frog bite in the pads.
Here's Robert with the first fish of the night, between 3 and 4 pounds. This is the one that convinced us to concentrate on the spinnerbait!
Here's another in the 3 pound class by Robert
At this point I was catching slightly smaller fish and Robert was muscling in the bigger guys.
Then Robert raised the bar again with this 5 pound 15 oz fish
Another view of her
Finally the sun came up and the spinnerbait bite fell off, but the fish were still in the pads. We managed a few fish between 14 and 18" then I stuck this 5 lb 1 oz fish
Things pretty much died off after that and we pulled out of the water about 11 AM CSDT and headed home. I ain't so sure I can do those marathon trips too much anymore! lol! After working all day Friday, then fishing all night and half the next day, and driving 2 1/2 hours back home, I had leg cramps off and on all night Saturday night! LOL! I survived and it was fun. My only regret is that the wind blew all night and pretty much dashed any hopes of the buzzbait and frog bite in the pads.
