Let me catch you up on the developments in the fishing front. I am no longer a loner fisherman. I hardly go out at all unless I’ve made plans for a group outing. Sometimes this means taking Space Squid Editor Steve and his kid out fishing. More frequently I’m in the company of two other guys as part of a group that has come to be known in the circle of facebook friends as "The Fishing Team."
There was one truly disappointing day where I didn’t get so much as a nibble. But since then there’s been some accommodation to the seasons and nearly every trip has been more successful than the last.
The Fishing Team discovered that in the cold weather the fish are only biting where the water happens to be warm (i.e. Barton Creek) and where the authorities have stocked trout.
Here’s the previous trout with vaguely keeper-sized sunfish caught down at Barton. The largest sunfish on the left is a redear, while the smaller ones are redbreast.
On return trips to the trout-stocking area, The Fishing Team mastered the technique of dragging canned corn along the bottom. This was our haul from Saturday.
We tried our damnedest to catch the limit, but we fell just short.
A trout bit on my corn bait, but when I tried to set the hook, the trout’s lip came right off.
When you fish in public parks you always have to deal with tourists.
Even though the trout all came from a breeding pond somewhere, some trout are bigger than others.
Here I have a catch arranged from biggest fish to smallest, utilizing perspective to give you the illusion of a vast length of trout vanishing into the distance.
You know the best part about the slot limit on Lady Bird Lake?
