Lake San Antonio 5/18

[plumbertom]

Got on the water today just shortly after 6 AM.
Ran across to the south shore just past the pinch and set out my jig on the down rigger.

As you can see I don't much care for the pole holder on the downrigger.
Couldn't have gone 100 yards when bang, fish on.
Nice striper I'm guessing at 12 lbs.



So I'm thinking, "Oh Boy, this is gonna be a great day."
Ha! not another fish in ten hours on the water.

I was showing bait here and there but no big bait balls and few fish hanging out on them.

Water temp was 68* in the morning warming to 71* by 2PM.
The water was Clear down about 5' but lost of Alga spread through it, improved from last time.
I was trolling 4'' pearl Sassy shad type swim bait at 20' about 100' behind my ball.

[MonsterGuppy]

Thx for the report, nice fish, did you happen to notice any shad around the boat launch yet?

[plumbertom]

Not at Harris Creek launch.
As I was launching a couple guys came from up lake and stopped to check for shad so I'm assuming there was none at Lynch or Northshore.
I went up to the marina a little later for Ice but I didn't see any shad up on the surface anywhere.

[MonsterGuppy]

Thxs very much for the info,,,Ill make the drive up there once I hear there's shad around the ramps..

[taylor31]

Thanks for the report, I'll be up there this weekend.

[cutbait]

Outstanding Tom.

In the box is in the box.

Thanks for the intel

68 is good

[TroutOnly]

at least a no skunk, the bait may be in real shallow parked on some scructure,,,,,did you try to move into deep water and put youre lure down to fifty feet or so,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,T/O,,,,,,,,,,

[plumbertom]

No, Bob, I didn't do that, although I did move out to deeper water to see if I could meter any fish.
Nothing showed on my FF in the deep end so I continued to troll along at 5 to 7 fathoms.
I was thinking if I metered some deep fish it would allow me to really see how well the Down rigger worked.
I did Run up to the shallow end and trolled amongst the feeding Grebes.
There I was showing lots of bait in the water and predators hanging around but none that were interested in what I was offering.

[taylor31]

I was fishing up there yesterday. I checked for bait on both north and south shore, and didn't find any shad. The morning top water bite was pretty awesome for bass.

[plumbertom]

I don't go there much on the weekends.
Too many idiots in wake boats and on jet skis with no regard for people that are fishing.