Today at about 10:00am Hank and I went to check our trotlines at Cedar Creek. There is good news and bad news. Bad news first. We came up empty handed on our first trotline AND our second trotline was in two pieces. I am guessing a turtle or a gar chewed through the rope or a fish worked it so hard against a rock or log that it finally tore. Here is the good news though. We got a black bullhead on our second trotline and it was a big one for this species. The cat was 12.25 inches and 1.25 pounds and took a cut of shad. This got us pretty excited because according to Texas Parks and Wildlife the largest black bullhead caught in Abilene, Texas is .79 pounds and 11.25 inches. The Texas state record black bullhead caught on a trotline is 1.80 pounds and and 13.50 inches. The reason I believe these bullhead are all getting pretty big is because they have hardly any competition for food. As of now we don't know that there bass in the creek and we do know there is a decent population of bluegill and other sunfish. The bullheads and gars are the only fish that eat the bluegill. There is alot of slugs, snails, freshwater clams, and insects for the bullheads to feed on as well. Needless to say we were pretty jacked up. We re-baited and and we are going to check our lines at 6:00pm.
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