Fly rod white bass bonanza

[BilletHead]

      Watching the river gauges for height and cfs plus a report from @curtisce and his dog Foster from yesterday it was time to head to Oklahoma for a try. Launching was a breeze we were on the water heading upstream. From the current water flow and maybe Grand lake maybe a tad high the lower shoal was deeper than normal. Up a bit further found some flow but with the water being still on the cool side it was shallow, too shallow for right now. Backed down a bit from there and tried. A boat of three had a spot and caught several spin fishing with white twister tails. I strung up the long rod and tied on a pink over white Clouser. Worked that long mud and log cut bank without a bite. Sink tip line I was really feeling the gravel bottom. Pulled the trolling motor up and moved down around a curve to work slower water below a long steep bluff bank that goes from 0 to 8 foot depth fairly quick. I finally picked up a white at about 4 foot. This fired up Pat and she built her rod. I tossed her a reel with a sink tip and she tossed it back at me, I'm going to throw my floating line my Clouser will go deep enough then she tied on a chartreuse over white. Pat proceeds to catch a couple nice shows back to back.

I cut my pink over white Clouser off and put on a chartreuse over white and never looked back but I changed to a not so heavy sink tip. 

  We then worked that bank keeping 16 fish. Pat's biggest was over two pounds mine two on the nose. Lots of nice ones. Had to weed through many smaller ones during the trip.

  PB and J sammiches and sunshine nourishing our bodies it felt good. 

About one ish took fish out of the live well put on a stringer and cut to bleed them and into the ice filled cooler for the trip home. Back at the ramp I dropped Pat off to back in the trailer. I waited and waited for her to back down the ramp. Nothing so I beached the boat and walked up to her blocked in by three trucks and trailers with previous loaded boats. Her with the truck running with lights on. I asked the guys to move up or back a bit, why they asked? I said you see that lady in that truck with the lights on? She needs out to back down the ramp to pick me up. Oh we didn't see her. I said I can see her and hear that truck. We will move and they did. We loaded and got out of the way to batten things down for the ride home. Pat said watch your steps huh? Look here. Something you hate to see at a boat ramp at least it was capped,

   Back home the fish were filleted,

 

For those that don't like white bass for heavens sake trim off every bit of red. 

   Fish fry tomorrow 😁.

 

[jdmidwest]

When I am tired and broke down after a day of fishing,  I tend to fillet like you did.  But when I wake up and have alot of fish, I can tilt the knife a little and avoid that extra step.  Nice white fillets with no red lines.  I use one of those green electric ones.  And cut the red off like you did with knife.  But that extra step is a PITA.

We hammered them down in TN at Satillo Saturday.  Probably caught 65 in 4 hours.  Limited out in an hour, back to ramp and iced them down.  Went after Sauger and played with boat running knife edge up a crooked creek for a while resting our arms.  Then back to mouth of creek to hit sauger with jigs, started catching more white bass.  Finished day off with phrase, next fish we catch that is not a double, we go home.  I caught one,  buddy did not.  Flicker shads in chrome finish.

[fishinwrench]

Hell yes ! 👍😀

[ollie]

Nice report. I thought about going but again can't make up mind on the license!  lol Did you see any carcasses of bass by the boat ramp? Just curios on that one. I had heard that this year they were going to crack down on that so the vultures wouldn't have a smorgasbord to feed on.  

[BilletHead]

Not a carcass seen out of the water. Clean so far. Problem there is that water can go down quickly. Shallow sloping bank. If it does could be a mess showing up. 

[ollie]

Very true. I know I had just read where the game and fish were telling people this year not to clean near the ramps and if they did, take them out to deeper water. Deeper water at 10 bridge does mean they can show up after the water goes down!