It’s been a while since I’ve done an old-fashioned written report on the forum here, so I figured I’d go ahead and throw one up here for what it’s worth. I hit Lady Bird Lake last week with a friend just to go test the bite out there, poke around, and see what was goin’ on. We fished from about 7:30 AM - 1:00 PM. Conditions were nice. The morning temps were just a little cooler than they have been, mostly sunny all day, very slight breeze, and the air temps didn’t even make us break a sweat all day! Water clarity throughout most of the lake was pretty dirty, maybe 2-3 ft visibility, I don’t really remember, but there were some areas where it was a little clearer with 4-5 ft visibility.
We put our first couple of fish in the boat early (2 lbers) at our first stop fishing a T-rigged worm near a bridge. We didn’t fish there long though because I wanted to try some topwaters and reaction baits around shoreline cover and around submerged vegetation. Spent the next couple of hours just fishing down different shorelines with various topwaters and reactions baits with absolutely nothing to show for it. By about 11-11:30 or so, we finally came to some good looking matted vegetation, and busted out the flipping stick to start punching. We started getting several bites, but were pretty off of our game and lost most of them. I lost two dragging them over the grass, broke one off, and missed a couple of bites, but my buddy managed to actually put a couple of healthy, chunky 2-3 pounders in the boat. I was flipping a large 1.5oz jig, and I had him using a PowerTeam Lures Bully Grass Devil rigged with a 1oz River2Sea Trash Bomb tungsten sinker and 5/0 River2Sea Jack Flippin’ Hook. That Jack Flippin’ Hook seemed to keep those fish pegged a little better than my super old hand-tied 1.5 oz jig did.
Once it seemed like we had gotten all of the bites we were going to get out of the area we were at, we decided to move on and try fishing some bridges again to finish up the last hour. Caught another 5 or 6 fish over the next hour on a few different Texas-rigged worms. At about 12:45, I managed to put an “over” in the boat, so we threw it in the livewell and headed back to the ramp to get pictures before the release since I had left my GoPro in the truck. It was time to head in anyway. My buddy and I disagreed on the weight quite a bit (his guess was more than mine) plus we didn’t have a scale in the boat, so ya’ll can just come up with your own estimates. I seem to be on a trend of under-estimating my fish recently anyway.
The next day, I took an ABFer out on a guide trip to Lady Bird, but nothing terribly exciting to report other than the fact that we confirmed it was an afternoon bite. The morning was much colder than the previous day, and seemed to shut the fish down even more for the first several hours. From what I had found the day before, I was thinking we just needed to be in the right areas, but it very much proved to be a timing thing and that I had caught most of my fish the day before between 11:30 and 1:00 for a reason. It was a beautiful morning, but the fish were uncooperative until, once again, about 11:30, only having put 1 or 2 fish in the boat before then. In the last 30-45 minutes or so, it seems like we caught 4-6 decent fish really quick, but client had an obligation to make it to and we had to get off the water at noon. I suspect with the fluctuating morning temps right now, we will be switching back and forth for a little while between it being a morning bite or an afternoon bite.
We put our first couple of fish in the boat early (2 lbers) at our first stop fishing a T-rigged worm near a bridge. We didn’t fish there long though because I wanted to try some topwaters and reaction baits around shoreline cover and around submerged vegetation. Spent the next couple of hours just fishing down different shorelines with various topwaters and reactions baits with absolutely nothing to show for it. By about 11-11:30 or so, we finally came to some good looking matted vegetation, and busted out the flipping stick to start punching. We started getting several bites, but were pretty off of our game and lost most of them. I lost two dragging them over the grass, broke one off, and missed a couple of bites, but my buddy managed to actually put a couple of healthy, chunky 2-3 pounders in the boat. I was flipping a large 1.5oz jig, and I had him using a PowerTeam Lures Bully Grass Devil rigged with a 1oz River2Sea Trash Bomb tungsten sinker and 5/0 River2Sea Jack Flippin’ Hook. That Jack Flippin’ Hook seemed to keep those fish pegged a little better than my super old hand-tied 1.5 oz jig did.
Once it seemed like we had gotten all of the bites we were going to get out of the area we were at, we decided to move on and try fishing some bridges again to finish up the last hour. Caught another 5 or 6 fish over the next hour on a few different Texas-rigged worms. At about 12:45, I managed to put an “over” in the boat, so we threw it in the livewell and headed back to the ramp to get pictures before the release since I had left my GoPro in the truck. It was time to head in anyway. My buddy and I disagreed on the weight quite a bit (his guess was more than mine) plus we didn’t have a scale in the boat, so ya’ll can just come up with your own estimates. I seem to be on a trend of under-estimating my fish recently anyway.
The next day, I took an ABFer out on a guide trip to Lady Bird, but nothing terribly exciting to report other than the fact that we confirmed it was an afternoon bite. The morning was much colder than the previous day, and seemed to shut the fish down even more for the first several hours. From what I had found the day before, I was thinking we just needed to be in the right areas, but it very much proved to be a timing thing and that I had caught most of my fish the day before between 11:30 and 1:00 for a reason. It was a beautiful morning, but the fish were uncooperative until, once again, about 11:30, only having put 1 or 2 fish in the boat before then. In the last 30-45 minutes or so, it seems like we caught 4-6 decent fish really quick, but client had an obligation to make it to and we had to get off the water at noon. I suspect with the fluctuating morning temps right now, we will be switching back and forth for a little while between it being a morning bite or an afternoon bite.
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