Smithville Lake Mix

Type: Nontidal
Region: Eastern
Location: Smithville Lake

On Sunday, November 15th my brother in law John Jacob (of Pasadena) and I re-visited Smithville Lake outside of Denton. Our third visit to Smithville in 6 weeks. It was a cold morning with the air temperature at 31 degrees when we launched. The two man plastic bass boat was coated in frost and a light fog came off of the warmer water as we cast out our baits. We each used two rods, one with a jig and live minnow (under a bobber) and the other rods with a jig and Gulp Alive 2 �� minnow also under a bobber. We power drifted and in a short 5 minutes John hooked up and played a nice pike of about 18�. By the end of the day we had caught about a dozen crappie, one bluegill, four bass and 9 pickerel (Pike). A couple of the pike were in the 22� range, several of our crappie were over 10� and two of the bass were in the 14� � 15� range. All fought well on our ultra light outfits.

We could have spent our Sunday sitting by the fire and watching football, but it was a lot more fun being out on the lake catching fish!