Spring has finally, slowly begun to arrive. It is the latest spring that I can ever remember. After the hottest December since records have been kept (11 degrees above average), we finally got our winter in February and March. Those of us who love to fish the white bass spawning run this late spring has a negative effect. One of the major harbingers of the white bass run is when the redbud trees begin to bloom. That’s usually mid-February. This year it began to happen in mid-March.
The white bass run up the Guadalupe River out of Canyon Lake has been very slow. I have made numerous trips since late January up the river. Very few fish are up the river.
So my neighbor, Tom Ray, and I put the river on the shelf for the moment and began to fish below Inks Dam on Lake LBJ. For several years, this has been a slam dunk in March. Lots of fish. So on Tuesday, March 14, we loaded our kayaks and made the two-hour trip in the dark to Inks Dam.
