Sep 05 2021
Joshua Massoud
Keeper
Member Since :
2021
Number of Posts :
487
Reservation Number : 29613
Property Name : Bremmond
Reservation Date : 09/04/2021 All Day -
Total Fish/Sizes : 52 up to 4.5ishlbs
Lures Used : Fluke/Bubba shot/Ned Rig/Frog
Had the fine pleasure of fishing with Mr. Brady Bennett who was looking for a partner to fish Bremmond, down in Thorndale. Turns out we are both attorneys who really like to fish! We fished separately – kayak for him and I ran the club boat (which was new). Despite missing several somewhat finnicky fish each, we still managed a good mess of fish. We fished differently, but thematically I think there was a couple of overriding themes to the day. I took a fair amount of pictures, which are attached. I didn’t get a pick of my biggest one, I dropped my phone as I held her in the water and she slipped – but she was nearly 20inches and stocky.
- Water was relatively low visibility – 1.5-2 feet with a brown (not tea, like East Texas, but dirt brown), warm, 87-90ish, steady S/SW wind of 10-12mph, water is low, would guess a 3 feet or more which didn’t give us a ton of area to work, but we made the most of it.
- Brady had some success near the timber with a frog early, I worked my spook and got several whiffs and spent the first hour and half fishless and frustrated.
- I had to take hold of myself and not repeat last weekend. The fish are tired. It is hot. They don’t want to move. The fish looked fat in the pictures on the site, so that means they don’t move a lot. Downsize you idiot! So, I grabbed my spinning reel with 8lb line, threw on the ned rig.
- I was greeted by 4 four pretty quickly in a little shallow flat near two brush piles, not pitching in them, but adjacent using a black and blue 5 inch robotype worm. I then broke off a good fish on the 5th attempt – line just couldn’t hold up with all the rocks.
- I switched to a shakyhead and started using a green magic trick worm - found some more fish in that same area.
- Brady started using a dropshot variant and was picking some fish up that way.
- I moved to the dam area and started alternative the Epic Baits flukes I picked up from Dale with the shakyhead. The flukes in the baby bass color matched the brim perfectly and I started picking up some real decent footballs. All my best fish were on those flukes which I am going to have to reorder as I burned through them. Only bait I could really get a solid commit from – the rest I could barely feel the bite.
- I rotated back to the area near the brush piles and started feeling a rocky hard bottom area near some deeper water. I caught 75% of my fish in that one 30 yard area with the water level where it is, I’m guessing they are all just stacked up staging in that intermediate area. They still didn’t want a square-bill or other baits I might use in that situation on rock – shaky head/fluke or nothing.
- Brady continued working the outside timber line. The timber which the last group worked held fish but it is really shallow right now due to the lake level so he had the right gameplan working the outside line.
- I caught 6 or so on a point near a cover by the submerged fence, some in the timber, and some on the dam, but it was really that one nondescript spot. I did miss two good fish on a jig pitched to shady sides of timber when I tried to get back in into the trees.
- I think only a few fish were in the 1lb class – it was either under 12 or over 16
- Brady left around 4 or so, I stuck around to try and pick up an evening bite that never came. I caught 6 more culls or so and left around 7:30.
- Hit up ‘Schroeder's Place’ for a good homecooked burger (it might also be the only place open on Saturday’s at noon).
- Someone was shooting guns all evening nearby. It made me feel at home and I knew I was in Texas – the greatest country on Earth.
Sep 06 2021
Mark Daugherty
Keeper
Member Since :
2015
Number of Posts :
325
Man, that’s a productive day Joshua! You’ve been hitting it hard this summer and I really appreciate you continuing to share details on your outings. That is no small thing to keep up with – but it is much appreciated by all of the other members.
Tight lines!
Mark