Howdy guys!
A friend and I went fishing Gibbons Creek Reservoir this past weekend (Friday and Saturday), and I decided to get a little early spring fishing report out about it. Overall, the fishing was very slow, we only landed about 9 fish over the two days (with a couple others that threw the hook before we got them in the boat). It was very windy both days, with sustained winds about 20 mph and gusts up to 30 mph.
Early in day one, my friend landed a very nice largemouth that we ballparked around 8 lbs (scale's battery was dead). That really got our hopes up, but it would be the biggest fish of our trip by far. That big one was caught with a T-rigged trick worm, but for the most part we couldn't get bites on plastics. As for quantity of bites, spinnerbaits did the best for us (chartreuse and orange/white). Crankbaits also caught a couple fish.
As a whole, this weekend was more of an example why the sport is called 'fishing' rather than 'catching'. However, a slow day on the water beats any day sitting at home!
It was also disappointed that half of the lake was very difficult because of stumps just below the surface of the water. We didn't even try to get back there because we didn't want to risk damaging the boat.
