Welcome to Mike's Fishing Corner. I want everyone to know how important fishing is to me. My fishing experiences started many years ago fishing as a young boy with Grandpa and my Father. I have never lost the passion and commitment for fishing and look forward to getting on our area lakes and rivers ever chance I get.
My pride and joy is my Ranger Boat. Although the boat is 10 years old it's in excellent shape. I have thought of buying a new boat several times but we really can't afford one now after purchasing our Chevy LS Tahoe. Well anyway the new truck is Lina's and she very well deserves it. I guess I'll have to wait a few years before I think about getting another boat. Anyway there's really nothing wrong with my boat. She's in excellent condition and runs faster that most boats her size. She is an 18 footer that's pretty much loaded. She has a Mercury XR4 150 HP outboard with a CMC jackplate and will run about 60 MPH's with just me onboard. She will run between 45-55 MPH with 3 people onboard depending on water conditions. That's what I really appreciate about the Ranger hull design is the way she handles rough waters. She will plane out smoother and quicker than any other boat I've ever rode in. When other boats are bouncing up and down in rough water just trying to get back to the ramp or dock, this Ranger will plane out fairly smooth in rough or choppy water. She's not a dry boat by any means but handles rough water like a sea worthy boat. This is really needed here in Texas during the spring and summer the way the wind can pick up and blow. I'm planning on pulling the Ranger with Lina's truck this summer to see how the SUV handles. Most the other times when I head to the lake I pull her with my Chevy Entended Cab. My truck is a 1996 model with the Vortex 350.
My love for fishing goes back to my childhood but I didn't really get involved seriously till I was in my early 20's. Living close to the Brazo River has it's benefits and fortunately after Lina and I married and started a family most of our free weekends were spent camping either on the Brazo or at Lake Whitney. I've spent many an hour walking the banks of the Brazo looking for holes were the fish may be hiding out. The springs months can be most exciting because the sandbass (many of you know them as whitebass) make their yearly run up river to spawn. The action can be fast and furious if you know what you doing and hit it just right. It's the same way on Lake Whitney. The sandbass school on the surface normally early in the morning or late in the evening feeding on schools of threadfin shad. I don't know how many times we have been running across the lake and see the sandbass feeding like this. They stay on top of the surface for 10 mins. or so and then they will disappear. If your lucky they will come back to the surface a few hundred feet away and boil the water again. You can catch a fish almost every cast when the action is like this. |
