Austin Construction News • JAN 2020
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Ken Milam’s Fishing Line Since 1981, Ken Milam has been guiding fishing trips for striped bass on Lake Buchanan in the Texas Hill Country, You can hear Ken on the radio as follows: The Great Outdoors: 5-8 am Saturday on 1300, The Zone, Austin and The Great Outdoors: 5-7 am Saturday on 1200 WOAI San Antonio The Sunday Sportsman: 6-8 am Sunday on 1300, The Zone, Austin All on iHeart Radio
Happy New Year!
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hope you and yours had a fine Holiday Season! It always feels nice to settle back into the old usual routine after the holiday hustle and bustle is past. It seems to be real nice …for about two weeks, and then thoughts of spring fishing start to creep in! Time to get back on the water! So far, winter has been pretty good to us. It has been cool enough for the lake to start to cycle into winter. Colder water makes the stripers and hybrids and white bass start to school up and feed hard on bait fish to get ready for spring spawning. It also spurs them into their upstream migration which makes it easier to find them and get in on some good fishing action. This year we have had plenty of time for our Highland Lakes to settle down into their normal patterns. Last year was not an easy fishing year because the heavy flooding from the previous fall seriously disturbed the equilibrium of the lakes and rivers. Normally lakes develop their own fish population ratios that become uniquely their own and are somewhat self-correcting. By fishing we learn to expect to find fish in certain areas and to have a good idea for what type of bait they will be wanting. A flood literally washes all that out the flood gates and leaves things all mixed up and confused for a few months. It takes a while for the fish to sort themselves out, get to places they want to be and for the bait population to start to stabilize again. This year all the little fishy players are back on the stage, on their marks, just waiting on the curtain to go up! I think it’s going to be a good spring! You can use these cold, windy days to round up your fishing gear and take inventory. Reels need cleaning and oiling and respooling with new line so equipment failure won’t cost you a good fish. It’s a good time to replace what’s broken
Jeff Denton Construction, Alpha Paving and D.K.C. Construction
Local area fisherman
Great Way to bond
Way Engineering and Way Mechanical recently showed appreciation to their customers and teams with its annual dove hunt. The hunters, which included Aaron Mims, Jeff McCaskill, Sean Robertson, Emmett Gott and Olly Summers, enjoyed their time at 15,000-acre, Crystal city-based Thompson Hunting Lodge, which has a shooting range and is stocked with over 20 different species of game. –mjm
Happy New Year 2020
or found its way to the bottom of the lake and get your tackle box restocked. This time of year you want to be able to grab your fishing things and get out the door while the weather is nice. You don’t want to spend a pretty day looking for your sunscreen or trying to remember if that was your favorite lure a fish made off with or did you misplace it. Don’t forget to check your boat and motor over too. Winter can be hard on equipment and you don’t want to be sitting on the boat ramp out of commission when you could be fishing. It’s a lot easier to get your rig into your favorite shop this time of year for a check-up than in the spring for a repair! Of course, if you are awful busy and don’t have time to get ready, you can always just give us a call and let us get you on the water and on the fish! You don’t even have to drag a boat to the lake! Either way, hope to see you soon on the water!