Location "C"

Fishing Report - 6/23

Yesterday I scouted a new flat for the year. . . "Location C". This is a limited place - it can only be fished on dead calm or W to NE wind days (which we don't get much in the summer in N. TX) and it's one of the original "you can't get there from here" spots. But, MAN, does it have fish!

Location C doesn't have the numbers that some of the other flats have, BUT it has toads, absolute TOADS. A big PLUS for the day was catching a Smallmouth Buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus). We see these occasionally but they will rarely take a fly (they're primarily plankton feeders). While not the reel clearing runners that their cousins, the Black Buffalo, are; they are STRONG. Speaking of the Blacks, they should be turning on any day now and we can get them to eat if everything is perfect.

The carp in the photo was an easy 8 pounds and the buffalo bottomed out a 15# Bogagrip. The buffalo was finally a "maxamizing" test for the TiCr"X" 7'6" 6 wt - and with a borrowed Lamson/Waterworks Force reel, it passed with barely a whimper!

Call me and I'll take you there . . . (940)391-9480!