Best of 1998 - Monte's Metroplex Fishing

1998 - It's Been a Great Year Well, 1998 has been a great year for the Green family. We hope it has been for you too. Our best fishing trip of the year was with Jake Jacoby. Here is Ryan with the three biggest bass he has ever caught. My biggest is only 5 and a half pounds. These brutes were all over 7 pounds. Jake put us on them with live shad at the Weed Beds next to Wolf Island on Lake Ray Roberts.

We have been back there and caught several more fish but none as big as these. The hardest part for us is catching the shad. We have managed to catch a few around the boat stalls at Ray Roberts Marina and have caught fish with them.

Back in March Roy and I got soaked attempting to get into spawning sand bass. What a miserable trip that was! But it is pretty funny now. We left our raincoats at home even though we knew rain was imminent. Kinda dumb, huh?

By April, though, it was apparent that I had gone into a fishless slump. While Roy was catching them right and left. By the time summer hit we took a big financial blow when our Suburban gave up the ghost. We had to replace the engine and the transmission. Still can't figure out how both of them went bad at the same time. But in between mechanicing I learned how to fish carolina style. Caught this one real deep on a really hot day.

We caught loads of sand bass this year too. We are pretty good at catching them while they are schooling on top (who isn't!). We need to improve on finding them deep.

Seth did a pretty good job of that on one trip we took. All but one of these fish were caught by Seth. We caught most of them at the water discharge. I caught a couple of black bass on the shady side of it with a chrome Model-A. Then Seth caught sand bass after sand bass on the sunny side of it jigging a chrome slab off the bottom.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody.