8/14-15/2010 Salado and Cibolo

Hello again, this weekend I got out both mornings hitting the creeks. Saturday I went to Salado hoping to repeat last week's success and used woolly buggers all morning. I only caught one small spotted bass but saw several decent sized ones, they just were not biting. Got a nice Rio on though and several long ear perch as well. This one bass followed a perch I was realling in and then he just watched me for a few minutes. I put the bugger in his face and he tapped at it once or twice then I put the rod tip up to his face, the guy even bit on that, it was a trip.

It was pretty neat seeing in 2 different pools a school of catfish that were about 6 inches long, hopefully they will get to grow up nicely. A red tailed hawk flew nearby also and I could hear it screeching a bit and passing a tree there was a big green praying mantis waiting for dinner to drop by.



Cibolo was nice as usual, again as in the past I took my dad along this Sunday morning. I wanted to give the woolly bugger a try here as well and managed to catch a few perch and one large Rio. I thought I had a good 14-16" bass when the Rio hit from the amount of water it displaced after I set the hook along with the way it fought. It was the largest Rio I have caught in recent memory. After fishing dad and I got some lunch/breakfast from our regular spot, Taco Cabana, hard to beat the cheap and good food there.

7/7-8/2010 Salado

Yesterday I took my son fishing for a bit down at the creek. I don't think he was too enthused as he had expected to go to Cibolo this morning but due to the wife's car having trouble I let her use my car to get to work and we had to stay close to home with the unreliable transportation. The Cibolo is great but it is about 35 miles from the house, Salado is about 2 miles.

The boy just wasn't having any luck and his patience was lost in fast time, he also didn't want to wade fish so we cut the day short. I did manage to catch a nice spotted bass on my 3wt rod but before the trip was over it broke near the tip, luckily this was an unexpensive rod.



This morning I took my South Fork rod down to the creek and fished my way upstream toward the car. The perch were willing on the hopper but little else bit until I switched over to an Olive Bugger- then it got good. On my first cast I saw a nice Rio hit on it but missed the hook, then with a little more patience I caught a nice one. A small bass followed, bit, but missed the hook also. Casting into a pocket I then saw 2 nice bass of about 16" followed by a slightly smaller one, a fish hit but much to my disappointment didn't get hooked. Shortly thereafter I hooked another nice Rio and then downstream in a shallow pool with some lily pads a nice 14" or so spotted bass took the fly. The bass was a beauty, it jumped about 3 times and tried to take me into an overhanging tree but I was able to bring it to hand. The day turned out great and I really needed the stress release after contemplating how I'm going to pay to get the wife's car fixed, ugh.