2/13 Houston River / Westfork
 

Launched at Anthony Ferry around 10 and ran all the way to the mouth of West Fork. Could only get bit with a jig. Caught 9 shorts, hooked 7 swamp donkeys ( I'm gonna start keeping damn choupiques and figure out how to cook them one was at least 3 ft long ! ) , 1 goggle eye, and 2 keeper bass.Attachment 101844Attachment 101845

Wind was blowing until about 4 and water got up to 60 in some spots. West fork seemed clearer than Houston River.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nice, man! Thanks for the report.

Friend of mine makes fish patties wit choupique and der great. Mix the meat with boiled potatoes, bread crumbs, and seasoning. Coat in bread crumbs and fry. Almost like gar balls but with choupique

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G870A using Tapatalk

Everything I read says that they have the highest mercury levels of all the fish so I'll prolly just leave them alone....


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Swampcritter I fished a tournament Saturday and believe I saw you in your bass tracker

Maybe so, were you the ones that passed while I had the boat up in a drain ?

not sure when we saw you , you were on the bank opposite to the drains, we were flipping docks, did you have any luck in the pipes ?

Didn't fish the pipes


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We caught really good the other day north of white oak. Only fished for about 3 1/2 hr and caught 15 bass. Kept me 4 of the smaller ones to make tacos that night. Let the bigger ones go. Had one over 2lbs and a few others about 1.5 lbs.
kept the 3/4 pounders. I like the small ones.
Mainly caught them on speed crawls. But had some on spinner baits and Berkley Havocs pitching grass.
I'll be back out there Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Awesome! I may give white oak another shot Friday


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

need to go hit my holes north of white oak soon

You need to show me where they are so I can start fishing it again. Its been 30 years or more. [emoji33]

Yes. Do tell...[emoji3]

Don't forget to cut the tails off and bleed them before you start processing. If you do attempt to cook them only use fresh ones...they do not freeze well at all.

we fished our summertime holes yesterday and only caught 3 dinks, looks like I will have to keep fishing our usual stuff and wait till summer to go up north and slam them on buzzbaits and frogs

@T-Boo: We might need to hit that area again, haha!

good luck