Tuesday, March 2, 2010

White Bass - Truman Lake

Been so busy lately, I haven't had time to turn around! The weather settled down and we have been enjoying normal weather around here! With spring right around the corner ( fishing season ), I had to get all my spring cleaning , honey do items done! Enough said!

February 19,-21 spent a few days in the hospital, not me, but I had to be present for the birth of my new grandson, Tyler Lee Robinson! He weighed in as a feather weight @ 4.9 lbs about 3 weeks early, but the doctor said he was full developed and doing great, he already stayed at grandpa's  a night or two and did just fine. I think he might turn out to be another fishing buddy?

Anyway, I got to go to the lake fishing this past week and the weather was great! We were after white bass and stripers and hybrids, as we thought they might bite if we could find them!

Headed over to Truman Lake and went to Sap Landing, the Pomme de terre branch of of Truman, it's a pretty good size river at this area and when the whites are running a  good place to get healthy if you know what I mean!

We threw everything we had and manage to catch 22 whites and I mean they were hard to come by! They were not schooling where we caught them, but were scattered! We caught them mainly trolling a blue backed glass shad rap! The whites seem to like them, but not hitting them very aggressively, like they normally do! They usually jerked your rod out of your hand, they hit them so hard! Bit more like a crappy if you know what I mean!

Last Saturday, we went back to Truman and the whites weren't to be found around Sap Landing for some reason, we couldn't find them so we headed out toward the main lake trolling and we found a big striper, or at least Jerry landed one after about a 20 minute battle he landed a 19 lb striper and I hung one but he got off and left me looking like a dumbfounded idiot! Ha! but we hauled in 25 nice whites that would have impressed any fisherman and headed back to the farm!

Now I haven't eaten any fish for a while so Jerry and his family and my wife and I, settled in to having us a fish fry, good ole hush puppies, french fries, white bass, and of course some good ole red onions! We pigged out and now all is well again, here at "Kenny's Great Outdoors!"

Now when the whites are running you can catch a limit of 15 in less than an hour, and these two days, it took all day both days, but we did get close to our limits both days! So it is a few weeks until the white bass fishing gets hot, that is if the weather hold up and continues to get warmer! They should start staging real soon and then let the "action" begin!

So until next time keep your lines tight and your hooks wet, see ya out there!
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10 comments:

Mark Kautz said...

Hey Kenny. Good to see you back in print. A good day and a good supper. Keep the faith, Spring is comming.

Mark

Kenny Breckenridge said...

Yeah, the weather had all but stopped fishing since November, But I WILL make up for lost time, I promise you! Love to catch them white bass when they are spawning or making their run up river!

Anonymous said...

Congrats on the new arrival! I'm sure you'll try your best to show him a great time outdoors when he gets a bit older!

Fish fry is sounding good!

Wolfy said...

Sounds like spring is right around the corner, Kenny. Keep us posted on the happenings in your lakes.

Wolfy

Anonymous said...

Great blog, can't wait for spring myself.

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Kenny Breckenridge said...

Wolfy - Will do my best, and yes spring is right around the corner, can't wait!

Anonymous - Thanks for the nice comments and whether we like or not...we WILL have to wait!

As far as the last 2 comments, they were deleted - if your comment was deleted, contact me, as we have something to discuss, spam comments are not tolerated on this site!

Coloradocasters said...

Fellow bass angler here from Colorado. Just found your blogged and greatly understand your struggles with the weather this year. If you get bored, feel free to stop by my blog and say hello. Good luck and good fishing.

Mac Disk Wipe said...

Spring season is always very exciting.I hope you enjoying fishing a lot.Keep sharing with us your happening with lakes.I love to enjoy every moment of life.Nice sharing really..

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Great lake view really.Sounds like spring is right around the corner, Kenny. Keep us posted on the happenings in your lakes.Keep it up buddy.

Breitling replica said...

Bad weather stop all the daily life activities.The post showing that spring season ready to come.Do regular updation on lake movement.
I love fishing in such dark cool weather.Nice post..