This week has seen some really excellent fishing on Hubbard. Tuesday started off with some great schooling action at various places around the lake and ended strong with a great bite near humps around mid lake. The schooling action has varied quite a bit on location depending on the wind and the birds sitting on or near the shore line. All you really need to do is find a large group of birds lining the shore and start in on them throwing either a sassy shad for larger fish or a tail spinner for numbers of them. It has seemed lately that a straight retrieve will catch more fish with the spinners but letting it sink then reeling only a few seconds and stopping has produced bigger ones. I'm still using Moe's Ray Hubbard McQueens most of the time.
After that action tapers off the hump bite has depended on the sun. If it comes out quickly and there are only a few clouds the hump bite will take off immediately. If there are clouds it might take a while. Its seemed to me that when the clouds block the light your best bet is to get a little deeper near where you had schooling action and work a tail spinner very slow from the bottom up. There were several times this week that we weren't really seeing anything on the graph but we were catching fish doing a vertical retrieve straight through the water column. I believe these fish are running around suspended on cloudy days and they're not going to sit still until the sun comes out and pushed them down to structure. Thats my $.02
So here's the skinny on the catfish bite i've had lately. I guess i've gotten a little bored with doing the same thing about every day and I caught the catfish bug. I spent an afternoon scouting around and checking for signs of fish and I seem to have gotten onto a pretty good pattern with the whisker fish
They've been easy to catch once you find them but electronics are key. We've done well in mostly 30-31ft near timber and are using either cut or whole shad. I guess this is my new strange addiction because I'm having a blast catching these critters SOOOOOOO........until further notice, I am offering to run catfish trips in combination with your white/hybrid bass trips. We've been catching anywhere from 30-40 a day and its going to get better once my witches brew is complete 
I guess I'm a glutton for punishment at the filet table Either way, im putting a scrubbing brush to the test with all these slimy fish coming into the boat Tomorrow the wife and daughter and I are leaving on a much needed vacation to Galveston and San Antonio for a few days. We are looking forward to getting Emerson (4 years old) to see the beach and hopefully she can catch something in the surf
On the way home we may make a stop at the YETI factory in Austin and see if they have a scratch and dent cooler that will make a nice addition to the SS "Hooked Up" Y'all take care of the lake while i'm and dont even bother to look in my slip for free bait and tackle hahahaha! It has already been stashed away in a secret location in a land, far, far away 
We'll catch yall on the flip side 
If anybody would like to get in on the action for either catfish, white bass or hybrids give me a shout. I fish the lake full-time and can put you on the fish. Thanks! 214-668-8467
I'm trying to fix the comments problem. Y'all hang tight :)
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