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AcousTennis Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 1319
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:50 pm Post subject: Crushing the Drum ...Laguna/Buchanan Report |
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Hey, Y'all!
I've been traveling a good bit these past few days. School starts back up tomorrow so I made the best of the last few days. My best friends both went on their way to PT school in separate cities so we had what could be the last trip with all 3 of us.
We hit my night spot looking for drum and I immediately pull in all the fish I can handle.
The storms showed up pretty quickly so we had to call it a day just a few short of all our limits.
I hit the water again in the morning and the drum bite was CRAZY! I ran off 32 drum in about 20 minutes. They would slamm it within 5 seconds of hitting the water and if I let is sit there for a little longer I would pull in 2 on one leader.
I made the trip up to Lake Buchanan to enjoy a few days with my gal before school started back up for her. The lake was as awesome as I remember. I could live out there everyday if I had that option.
This trip produced a lot of species for me. I caught one of everything except a buffalo and gar.
-perch
-gaspergoo
-blue cat
-channel cat
-striper
-carp
-hybrid
-Largemouth
-white bass
-crappie
and a few more. I also had a strange encounter with turtles. They kept coming up and eating all of my minnows. I caught about 7 or 8 of the pesky bastages and ended up with my redear/softshell/snapper slam.
This morning I got back into the laguna. Hit the same area that gave up a crazy morning bite for drum. I anchored up and started casting out my 3 bottom fishing rods. By the time I set the 3rd rod in the holder the first 2 were bowed up with fish. Lines in at 6:45 and had my limit by 6:50. Had 22 drum by 7:30 with the smallest going 16 inches. Home and eating a taco by 9:30.
The drum bite has been phenomenal. I'm finding thousands stacked up shallow. 6:45 to about 8AM is the main bite. Around 7:15 they move from inches of water into about a foot then back into inches of water right on shorelines. By the time they move up on the shoreline the second time the bite slows down a TON!
Fishbites on the bottom gets the job done.
I hope to hit it a few more times before school really picks up here. Maybe if the winds let me hahaha.
Till next time
Life is good!
-Tino _________________
| ltorna1 wrote: | | I can just imagine a prehistoric nomadic version of AcousticTennis, padding around in a dugout canou with long unkempt hair (not much a stretch lol), catching drum on some 3000 BC version of fishbites. |
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MECE Horse Mullet

Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 187 Location: Corpus Christi
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| That is a ton of drum, good catch!!! I plan on hitting it tomorrow morning while everyone is at work and back at school. I doubt I'll have a limit of anything in 5 min but I sure will have fun trying. Thanks for the report. |
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AcousTennis Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 1319
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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TEXT ME! _________________
| ltorna1 wrote: | | I can just imagine a prehistoric nomadic version of AcousticTennis, padding around in a dugout canou with long unkempt hair (not much a stretch lol), catching drum on some 3000 BC version of fishbites. |
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manuel9622 Horse Mullet

Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 234 Location: SAN ANTONIO
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome report! Man I need some saltwater. Just haven't been able to get down there. Hopefully now that the kids are back in school I can take a vacation day to get down there during the week. Keep them reports coming! _________________ Shallow Sportn' it |
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shallowsport Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 3260 Location: Flour Bluff/Kingsville
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| When you're hot, you're hot! Some awsume action there. Thanks for the salvation treatment. Got me all fired up to go. |
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deputydawg Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 1991 Location: Humble
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:03 am Post subject: |
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Good report as usual! Turtle slam made me laugh!!!!!  |
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redfin21 Flour Bluffian in training
Joined: 18 Feb 2009 Posts: 360 Location: new braunfels,tx.
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Great report as always. Congrats and TFTR! Always pumps me up for my next trip down south. _________________ wishin i was fishin! |
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