March 25, 2000 - Monte's Metroplex Fishing

March 25, 2000
Monte Monte and a 17 Inch Ray Bob Bass and Ryan did some serious bassin on Ray Roberts Saturday morning. We launched at the state park and headed straight for the weed beds west of Wolf Island. The fog was so thick it took us a while to get there. We had to take it nice and slow. Monte got so turned around at one point he found himself inside Johnson Branch. OOPS! But once we found the edge of the weeds we started throwing chrome rattle traps into them and reeling back just fast enough to tick the top of the weeds. Monte caught one bass there. It was 17 inches long and very healthy. At 9:00 we decided to try our luck in Lick Creek. We didn't get a bite. But another fisherman that we happened upon caught a 5 pound drum that fought like a 10 pound bass. We were all kind of excited until he got it in the boat.

Around 10:00 we decided to hunt for good ol white bass. We trolled the mouth of Johnson Cove with chrome Model-A's. Monte's brand new Lowrance X85 came in handy. Graduating up from his archaic Humminbird makes Monte feel like he is really cadillac-ing. That thing is awsome! Almost everytime it marked fish we caught fish. We wound up with 25 whites. We drew a crowd too. But the other boats were jigging slabs off the bottom. I never saw any of them catch a fish. Of course, we were pretty busy catching fish so I couldn't watch them too closely. I don't understand why no other boat would troll too.

At noon we went to the discharge area of the dam. There was a man and his young daughter there that had a marker bouy in the water. They were steadily catching sand bass jigging slabs off the bottom. We caught a couple there too but then they just disappeared (the fish not the other boat). That was when we decided to call it a day.

It turned out to be a gorgeous day. The wind was light and the sun was out big time. We both got sunburned but had a great time. Look on your lake map and find Johnson Cove. It is within Johnson Branch. It is the small cove just to the south of Arkansas Cove. We consistantly score sand bass there trolling chrome Model-A's on sunny days, and white Model-A's on cloudy days.

See you out there.