Lake Tawakoni 03/11/07

Wife and I went out to do some crappie fishing in the shallow stumps up in Rabbitt cove. Crappie werent biting, so we headed out to the mouth and saw some brids working... Motored over and got on the trolling motor-then the water erupted ALL around us... sandbass and hybrids EVERYWHERE.. for the next 3 hours we caught and releases about 75-100 each.... the average sandbass was 2 lbs, with 50% being 2.5 lbs.... these were the biggest sandbass I have ever caught. I was catching them on EVERY cast!! My arms hurt!! caught about 5-6 hybrids, they were around 4-5 lbs each. We ran out of daylight or we would still be there..... I was tired of catching fish, but seeing the expressions on Carols face was well worth every minute.. Thats been my best sandbass trip ever.. and of course Carols too. I had to explain that this would spoil future sandbass trips.... the birds stayed above the fish and I never once turned on my electronics (besides the trolling motor).

After seeing these fish, I dont think a sanbass can get much larger... they were about to literally POP!! their bellies were softball sized from gorging shad(3" long) and being full of eggs......

Of course we forgot the camera, and I told Carol we will catch a ton of fish because of that... lol. She has some on her camera phone....

If anyone needs to know where we caught these, just let me know. At one point I took the sassy shad body off the chartruese head and threw just the head and caught fish to prove to Carol how dumb sandbass are..