Another fun couple of days out with Dale and Rhandy on Lake Fork. The weather was amazing except for Wednesday when the wind slicked off and it got pretty warm.
Rhandy and I started Sunday out at Lake Cypress Springs for some crappie fishing. We didn't kill them but I came home with enough filets for a few dinners. We caught a few giants, too!
Monday I went out with Dale while my buddy Trey and his son in law went out with Rhandy. We caught a few but Rhandy put Trey on a 6 and 7 pounder and Rhandy caught one over 8. We had a decent mexican dinner in Quitman before they had to head back to town.
Tuesday David came out and joined Dale and I and things started out pretty good on a main lake point. David hooked a good one but it spit the hook. Later Dale caught one at 9 pounds and 12 ounces. It was a fat monster. I was sure it was over 10. When David netted the fish the hook fell out of its mouth. We spent the rest of the day catching one here and one there on a variety of techniques.
David had to head back but I went back out with Rhandy around 2:30 pm. Rhandy caught one that went about 6 pounds and I hooked a big fish that straightened out the hook on my rattle trap. I never saw the fish but it felt like a good one.
Wednesday Dale and I started before 6 am to get out to his favorite deep water hole before it was camped by other fishermen. I jumped off about an 8 pounder who spit a crankbait at my head. I got to see that fish and it was a big heavy fish laying right where Dale said it would be. Drat. We did catch a few decent fish before they shut off around 8 am. We hunted the rest of the day with little success as the wind dropped to zero and temperatures climbed. It felt more like summer than spring for awhile there.
In our travels we saw a nice immature bald eagle and I snapped a couple of photos. His white head had not quite developed yet but it was a huge bird.
I ended the day with Dale by hanging a carolina rig in the top of a tree as a christmas ornament. I hate doing that! The fish are certainly deeper than 30 feet in the air. We went in to meet up with Rhandy about 2 pm.
Rhandy and I headed straight to his honey hole and things started slow. After about 40 minutes of no bites, Rhandy finally hooked a 7 pound 2 ounce bass and got it to the boat. We stayed around his "go to" hump but never got the action we had seen the previous day. We did get a couple of DD-22 fish pitching around stumps. Off we went to try several other good spots without success.
Around 6 pm the wind turned around to the northeast and started blowing 15-20 mph. We went back to the main lake point where I had my hook straightened the day before and at first had no better luck. Then we saw a single bass, about 3 pounds, chasing a single shad all over the top of the water around the boat. At that point we had been sitting shallow and throwing out deep as that is where we got the best bite on Tuesday. That showed us they were up shallow and I started pitching a rattle trap along the shore. I told Rhandy if the bite didn't pick up by 6:30 we'd just go in and drink beer. Shortly after that I caught a 3 pounder. Then, right at 6:30 I hooked an 8 pound 4 ounce "good un'". It made for deep water but I got it out from under the boat and into the net. That was a strong fish! We fished about another 30 minutes and I caught one more bass before we went in to drink much beer. Photo of that fish is at the top.
I had planned to fish Thursday morning a half day with Dale, but yet another strong cold front made us think better. I appreciate Dale's flexibility a lot as I don't think either of us would have enjoyed the 30 mph winds and plunging temperatures that were expected.
I'll be back for more soon!
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