Friday, March 29, 2024

For our understanding wives and mothers, happy Mother’s Day!

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HOOD OUTDOORS

As a licensed professional fishing guide, Michael Acosta shows you how to find them. A Granbury resident of more than 35 years, he has been fishing all of his life, and has been a licensed guide since 1998.

 

Well, Sunday is Mother’s Day. My wife says she doesn’t like to make a big deal about it, but just forget about it and see what happens.

This article today is mainly for the wives of us avid outdoorsmen who support us in our “adventures” (most of the time). These are also the mothers of our children and the strength in our families. We outdoorsmen are the overgrown kids in the family. We like to play as hard as we work, but seriously, we do appreciate what our better half does for us and for our children. We’d like to wish you a happy Mothers Day.

First of all, we’d like to apologize for the alarm going off at 4:30 a.m. We really try to be quiet, but we know we’re like a bull in a china closet, stumbling out of bed, tripping over the exercise bike and making enough ruckus in the bathroom to wake the dead. We know you’d like to sleep in late and “snuggle” but we have to be on the water or in the stand before daybreak.

We’re sorry for the light being left on in the bathroom that made you get out of bed. We’re sorry for our bad manners and habits that we won’t discuss here. We’re sorry for the clanking in the kitchen and the mess we failed to clean up. However, we’d like to thank you for letting us keep those dead baitfish in the freezer and for the use of your stockings to hold that chicken liver on the hook.

We’re sorry for waking you once again as that diesel monster truck fires up out front (we apologize to the neighbors as well), and we apologize for the flashlight shining out in the dark and in the windows while we are getting stuff ready.

We’d like to thank you for all the food and drinks in the fridge that we took with us and we hope you didn’t mind us taking that kitchen towel. We do appreciate the use of that new ice chest you recently bought to keep those fish we catch fresh. But most of all, we know you appreciate that cool video we shot on the lake catching fish.

We promise to mow the lawn, fix the fence and paint the house next weekend (if it doesn’t rain). We are also looking forward to planning that vacation (fishing) down at the coast as long as it does not conflict with that bass tournament in June. A vacation at Port Aransas sounds real good.

We apologize for getting home late, as we were sure the fishing was going to pick up later on. We are also sorry about all those lovely scents on our clothing that we placed on the bathroom floor. We still, however, wonder why you won’t kiss us when we first get home but we are definitely ready to take you out to dinner as soon as we get cleaned up.

Thank you for putting up with us, and happy Mothers Day!

HOOD COUNTY FISHING REPORT

Sand bass fishing on the main lake of Granbury has improved as many fish are returning to the main lake. Numbers of sand bass are being taken on slabs from in town to Indian Harbor. Crappie fishing under deeper docks has been excellent on small minnows and jigs. Catfish to 30 pounds-plus are good on cut shad mainly on the upper ends. Largemouth bass are good in numbers in the back of creeks on beds. Soft plastics and spinnerbaits are two good choices for largemouth. Striped bass are slow to fair on live shad fished on the lower ends.  

OTHER AREAS

Lake Whitney striped bass limits are common on live bait fishing mid-lake to the lower end. Locate the schools and you are on. Possum Kingdom Lake striped bass and huge sand bass are good from Broadway to Hell’s Gate. Possum Kingdom largemouth are good to excellent to 10 pounds in the backs of Cedar and Caddo creeks.

michael.acosta@att.net | 254-396-4855