Took some clients out on Lake Travis and it was the right call. We started out on a ledge in 8-20 feet of water. We caught a few there right away when I noticed a point in the back of the cove we were in start blowing up with fish. We just had to move back there and we started catching white bass on every cast, sometimes tripling up. It was a lot of fun. We also caught largemouth and guadalupe bass mixed in and even a striped bass. This went on for quite some time. After this slowed down and we moved around and fished the area for a while longer, I decided to take these guys to some other areas.
We headed up the lake to an old favorite cove and started catching some more largemouth. As we were moving around in there, I noticed a large fish swimming along and tossed my shaky head over at it. She hammered the bait and took off. After a long battle, I finally got her in the boat and it was a lake record long nosed gar weighing in at 20.08 lbs. What a fight. After getting all the measurements, etc we headed on to one more cove before the end of the trip.
We caught some largemouth here as well and 1 other fish I haven't seen in a while, a black crappie. She was up shallow with some other bass and after I caught her, I knew she could have been a lake record as well but when I was looking at her, she kicked right out of my hand and into the water. Oh well. lol
After all said and done, we caught over 80 fish with a mix of 6 different varieties. Good times. For some of this action, book today and let's go catch 'em.
The Lake Travis lake record longnose gar - 20.08 pounds, caught on a shaky head.