Webster Lake
Well it was a hot one here in kansas again. Temps were in the low 100's and the humidity of course was high. So a buddy, his son and I wanted to go fishing but did not want to sweat our butts off doing it, so we decided to go out in the evening and fish into the night. We got to Webster probably around 5pm and got on the water around 5:30 or so after buying bait and getting the boat launched. we wanted to troll for some white bass and wiper and so this is how we started fishing. well my friend put a small silver rattle trap on his sons pole and another kind on his. me i fished with a new reef runner that was like a firetiger color. well after about 15 minutes trolling my friend caught the first fish. it was a nice white bass. We got excited and thought alright now they will continue to bite. well i marked the first spot on my gps unit and continued to troll through that spot again and my friends son got a hit. he was reeling it in and it got off right at the boat. We thought that is okay we will come across more. well we trolled for awhile and were chasing surfacing fish and trying to keep up with them. we didn't seem to get into them much they were kinda scattered. well trolling didn't work for awhile so we decided to put on some live bait(minnows) and do some drifting since it was windy enough to do so. Well i have never ever not caught a fish drifting until tonight. For some reason the fish didn't want live bait so after about an hour or so we went back to trolling and my friends son once again missed a nice hit. ( He was screwing around and not paying attention. Young kids what can you do). well after about 30 minutes of trolling my pole clicker starts singing to me. I finally got a hit. It was also a nice white bass. so at this point we only had 2 white bass in the livewell but should have had more. but by this time it was getting dark so we decided to try live bait for some catfish. but after several hours of no luck we just loaded the boat and went home. even though we didn't catch many fish it was still a fun night in the great outdoors and on the water, plus i got to put more hours on my boat motor since it is new and i am still trying to get the motor broke in.