Yesterday we drove across the top of the escarpment - 130 miles of switchbacks. Crossed 3 beautiful rivers - and didn't stop?! We made it to the Nueces about 20 miles below its headwaters. Waded long distances to find the rare real-estate - a shade tree. And caught pig bass, hog bass, dumb bass, beautiful clearwater bass two and three times each. We'd wade up to one of these root balls and start catching the small bass. Their action would wake up the mamas and daddies and the whole pod would light into a pod-competition feeding frenzy that lasted for a half-hour. The stupid thing was, nobody put their cameras to work and we were all really spread out wide on this, so nobody photographed any of the really big fish - I got a few photos, but none of the hogs.
a new strain of long ear for my photo collection
piggie
I fished my 7-1/2' Cummings Water Witch and what a joy.
Graphite fishermen would think this rod is a 2-wt., but it's a 6/7, and won't load properly with a 5. It really comes to life with the correct line. Of
course, I was fishing a Teeny T130, but even in the gusting west Texas wind, the rod had plenty of power and was absolutely perfect for this fishing.
seriously, we waded about 3-4 miles to fish 4 (four) trees and easily caught 300 bass between us.
Sam, here, got the biggest bass of all, well over 20 inches.
where we'd find pods of smaller bass along cut banks, a couple of us would dial through the whole pod, again, catching each fish 2 to 3 times before
they got wise to us.
(i'm on your side in that issue by the way). great pictures. keep 'em
coming.
