- Advertisement
- Cheap Replacement Ink At Thrifty Ink
- 16 Customer and Client Generating Tools For Recession
- Mulitilevel Marketing Work At Home Business Money Making Opportunity
- Advice
- An Effective Way to Cope with Being Dumped
- Natural Treatment For Varicose Veins
- Musicians, Put More Time Into Doing What You Love
- Business
- Valuable tips to make money on eBay
- Elevate the position of your business with search engine marketing
- Stock Market Crash
- Community
- Sacred Headwaters Campaign
- Greg Bachand
- Carp Bait Making For Beginners And Cheap Big Fish Baits!
- Entertainment
- Woodhouse Audio Visual Services and Rentals
- 2008 Horoscopes - Get Free 2008 and 2009 Weekly and Yearly Horoscope
- Scrapbooking: Creating memories on paper
- Family
- When both parents work, do children suffer?
- EXERCISE AND KIDS (PART-3)
- Kid`s Favorite Party Christmas Games & Ideas - Santa`s Best Xmas Jokes
- Health & Fitness
- How to Destress Yourself With An Open Mind
- Does Muscle Memory Occur?
- Increase Your Energy Level Naturally
- Hobbies
- Origins of Christmas
- How to Bind Documents with Plastic Comb Binding
- MY MANIA WITH FASHION BRACELETS
- Home & Garden
- A Culinary School Will Teach Almost Anyone How to Cook Like a Real Chef
- 4 Ways to Transform Your Relationship Now
- The Cadillac of Dog Beds - You will Also want to Sleep on It!
- Internet
- "Insure" Yourself Against Computer Intruders - Your Flash Drive May Become Your New Best Friend
- Craigslist Ghosting - What Happened to My Ad?
- How to develop an SEO friendly dynamic website
- Miscellaneous
- Origins of Christmas
- A spiritual perspective on human cloning
- Bad Credit Personal Loans: Live Your Dream in Real World
- News
- Google PageRank Patent May Go Poof
- SEOMoz Dishes On 'Give It Up' Secrets
- American Airlines Drops Google Lawsuit
- Reference
- 5 Massive Mistakes Homeowners Make When Hiring a Home Stager
- Soy-One of The Best Active Ingredient for Skin Care
- Mothman - Alien from another world, or a being from the spiritual realm
- Relationships
- How to meet men or women from the comfort of your home
- An Effective Way to Cope with Being Dumped
- How To Prevent A Break Up
- Self Improvement
- Seven Exercises That Help Develop a Business Mission and Vision Statement
- Pathological Gambling and Poly-Behavioral Addiction
- Self-love is not Narcissism!
- Spiritual
- Roger Revaks Book, Internal Vision: A Ten-Day Journey to True Happiness
- Age New Spirituality - The Open Secret ( Read It At Your Own Risk )
- Can 10 Million People be Wrong about Meditation?
- Sports
- Another Kind of Horse Brand: Business Branding in Equine Marketing
- Serious Sports Fans Spend More Time Online
- NFL To Stream Sunday Night Games Live
Vacation On the Great Highland Lakes
07/08/2008 - By CURTIS REDDEHASE
Whenever I want to kick back, relax and forget about all the things on my plate I head out to my buddy Patrick's house on Lake LBJ. You see Patrick has perfected exactly where to catch fish on the lake, and he's a darn good cook too!
On our way to the highland lakes there are lots of neat stops you can make. There are many wineries in central Texas and many of these are very close to Marble Falls and some are even directly on your way. If your coming from North Austin you will most likely take 1431 to Marble Falls. On your way you will pass two excellent wineries; Flat Creek Estate and Stone House Vinyard. You will also pass a place where you can pick strawberries, I always stop and pick some up for desert! If your heading to Marble Falls from South Austin there are many more vinyards and wineries that you will pass. Just off of Hwy 71 in Southwest Austin you will find Spicewood Vineyards and Texas Hills Vinyard. Once you get to Marble Falls you will find a town rich in culture and history, but when there's fish to catch it's difficult to stop and enjoy it! Patrick is a true fisherman, as soon as he gets within sight of the water he's already imagining the first fish. He knows where to find fish that are the best to eat, the easiest to catch, or are really big fish. If you don't enjoy fishing well, you should go with him someday because it's very rare that you don't come home with a boat load of fish. Largemouth bass are one of the larger fishes that he will fish for. Largemouth bass like cover so they can pounce on their prey. They typically hide around brush or structure under the water. Most largemouth bass fishing is somewhat slow. White bass are a blast when they are spawning because you can catch as many as you can possibly catch them, but Crappie are the best eating. This weekend we went fishing for crappie. There are a few different ways we fish for crappie. Just like the Largemouth the crappie likes cover, but crappie typically like deeper water than the largemouth. Crappie will supspend themselves in 20-40 feet of water. They love underwater trees and other underwater structrues. Fishermen will actually sink old christmas trees into the lake to make an excellent Crappie Habitat. When you fish for crappie it's pretty simple. The easiest and most successful way is to either use live minnows, or tie on a small crappie jig. I prefer using the jig so I have more time fishing and less time re-baiting my pole. You drop the jig down to the bottom of the lake and slowly bounce it off the bottom, then reel in a foot or so and bob it up and down. If your on a good spot you will have a boat load of crappie and that is exactly what we did! Crappie can be fried, grilled, broiled, pretty much cooked anyway you can imagine. But one of my favorite is fried! Crappie is a delicate flaky extremely tasty fish. When your at one of the highland lakes you can't beat a good ol' fish fry! The way Patrick fries his crappie is with corn meal. He takes his fillets and washes them carefully, then he puts a few cubes of ice in a bowl with the fillets and enough water to cover them. He opens up a bag of corn meal and pous a generous amount into a ziploc bag. He then puts Tony Chachere's to season the cornmeal. He shakes the fish in the cornmeal and drops it into the fryer. Pretty soon we had a whole mess of fried crappie, homemade french fries, coleslaw and strawberry shortcake for desert. Oh, by the way those strawberries were handpicked by me and my family! Our real estate company offers a great service to those in need of purchasing a home in the Highland Lakes Texas area. http://www.buyaustinhome.com We also know the lakes very well, we offer plenty of information about the local areas. http://www.onetexashome.com/Lake-Buchanan.php
