Where's Waldo... Texas tour report

[Mitch f]

Glad you gents are having fun!!

[Johnsfolly]

This made me sad. Story later😟

[Ham]

We had minimal ability to connect to the Workd Wide Web. I’m Sorry we were not able to do half day updates, but it was what it was Soooooooo, let be Go back in time and try to include y’all in the fun. 

[Ham]

We rolled up to THE Lake O the Pines full of Hope and Expectation. 

Still tweaking on Waldo which cost a few minutes, but soon enough we were on the water. 

John Got First fish of the Trip. Channel Cat. 

John needed a yellow bass to catch every member of the true bass family. I have not caught a (true) White Perch yet. Lake O the Pines has plenty of Yellow Bass, but could we find him one. 

I had “technical” issues with my portable depth finder. I made a snap decision to buy the least expensive Lowrance unit. We used it as a portable unit until I can get it mounted. It didn’t help us. 

When deep was unsuccessful and boring, I went to a main lake point. Quickly, we were into fish. Then Bang! I got a yellow bass. Tiny. But target species acquired. 

John kept catching fish, but Bluegill after Bluegill. Then,  he got a Spotted Bass. Small but the first Spot caught in Waldo

Then, I caught a second yellow bass. It happens. 

[Ham]

[Ham]

[Ham]

[Ham]

Day Two came too early and too late. I was chomping at the bit to get started. 1000 hours of stuff I wanted to do and maybe 20 hours of fishing time. 

My Main Target Species was Choupique or as we dubbed them Swamp Musky (trademark pending). So I headed for the first slough off the main river I ran across. 

I immediately started catching largemouth off Cypress trees on Humdinger Spinnerbaits and Buzzbaits. I love Home Cookin in the Dirty South. 

I found teeth, but no Bowfin encountered. 

 

[Ham]

John did pretty well with the baitcaster. He had minimal previous experience and it is a challenging environment. 

You guys know John as a micro fisher, but you should really call him “Big Fish John”

[Ham]

Later , we ran up river and started long pole jigging brush tops. I’m not sure if John had done this before or is just a really quick study. Heck, maybe I’m a Good teacher. 

We wanted to catch all we could and keep a handful for Supper. 

We got a Dinner Double from the first Top we tried. Some tops were a fish or two. Some tops were 10 lost Jigs and no fish caught. Some tops were a few fish.