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White Bass & Hybrid WINTER SECRETS! Fishing with Herbeck's Lonestar Fishing on Cedar Creek Lake, TX
May 22, 2024
This video is about winter fishing on lakes for white bass (sand bass) and hybrids. From lures to depths, equipment, techniques, weather, water temperature and more – we fish with and talk to pro white bass guide Brent Herbeck of Herbeck's Lonestar Fishing on Cedar Creek Lake southeast of Dallas, Texas.
Thanks to...
Herbeck's Lonestar Fishing – https://lonestarfishingtx.com/
Brandon Jones Photography – https://www.brandonjonesphotography.net/
Cedar Creek Lake Online Guide - https://www.cedarcreeklake.com/
Other white bass / sand bass videos...
Finding Sand Bass In The Summer – https://youtu.be/fPXaUmhriGc
My Favorite White Bass Lure – https://youtu.be/buBTfNYfdUU
Use Birds To Find Sandies – https://youtu.be/qMMLO1ItDls
Fly Fishing The Sand Bass Run – https://youtu.be/P9H2_ApZ1hk
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What's up everybody it's Simon from LakeHub and I have some awesome winter fishing tips for you
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In the south the best time you can have on the lake in the winter time is with white bass
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hybrids and stripers and we are covering two out of the three today. I just got off the water
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on Cedar Creek Lake southeast of Dallas, Texas with a guide named Brent Herbeck. It's Herbeck's
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Lone Star Guide Service and he fishes all winter long for white bass and hybrids on Cedar Creek
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Lake. Let me tell you what, it was everything you wanted. It was cold, it was windy, but it was sunny
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and we caught a million fish. It was so much fun. The wind was crazy. It was about 15 to 20 miles
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an hour the entire time we were on the water. That made the audio a little bit tough. I'm going to
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lead in with some of the questions that I asked Brent while we were on the boat and we'll give
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you the answers that he gave us. The first question was what tackle and setup do you need for chasing
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white bass and big hybrids on the lake in the winter time? Well first of all we are using
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what we call dead stick jigs. These are one and a half ounce tail with a three and a half inch
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fluke. We're using these heavy jig heads which keep our lines nice and vertical. I call it triple
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rig because you got one above it and then another one just with a single hook right above it. So we
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got three hooks one two three. When it's windy you got to use a heavier bait. When it's calmer you
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got to use a lighter bait. Probably three eighths ounce paired with the only you know maybe only a
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little smaller half ounce jig on top. You can hear the thumper going on in the background of the video
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and so I asked Brent to tell us what does he do for sound attractants? We're using the thumper. We
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also got a splasher on our boat that we've been using. I've always got a manual thumper to add
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to the noise. Don't believe anybody what anybody tells you but thumping always works on if you're
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not thumping you're not catching okay. Next how does the water temperature affect the schooling
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behavior and the depths of white bass and hybrids both? The other thing that's big about dead stick
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is the water temperatures have to be below 60 degrees. I prefer them to be in between 50 and 54
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Right now we're sitting at 54 and you know with these chillier nights that have been happening
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these last few days you know we're in the 30s you know froze last night that's the kind of stuff you
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got to have in multiple days in December and January for it to really kick in and I would say
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that dead sticking right now is fully kicked in. Once you get into it it you know the colder nights
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keep it where it needs to be and it's only going to get better it's only going to get better here
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Next I asked Brent what's the best weather for winter fishing on the lake? The other thing about
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dead sticking in the winter time you know today's a nice kind of a blue sky partly cloudy
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barely cloudy but it's when the when the when we have a good overcast and some wind like today
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we only caught about eight hybrids today but we caught probably 75 to 100 white bass. It's just
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the hybrids like that that cover. All right you mentioned that hybrid fishing is better in the
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winter time because they're bigger. Can you explain that? Yes I mentioned before that the
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water temperatures get lower and once the water temperatures get in the 50s the fish metabolism
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slow down and if you can just imagine you know if you were to slow down and not move around and
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just eat and eat and eat you get plumpy you get big and a lot of these fish we're catching they
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look like footballs when you pull them out because all they're doing is laying down there and just
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eating big balls of fish. In the summertime all these fish do in this warm weather just run run
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run run and they they take all that fat off and they skinny up in the winter time but this is the
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time in the winter time to catch the big trophy white bass and the big trophy hybrids. I mean six
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years ago we caught one that was 12.1 pounds it was one pound shy of the lake record. Last year we
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caught a couple 10 pounders that were 25 and a half inches long but as you saw today you know
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even with the white bass the white bass we call them magnum bass out here in the winter time
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because they look magnum they're big I mean they're 14 to 15 and a half inches and like I said
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this is the time to catch the trophies and get one on the wall and catch a trophy of a lifetime
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Brent are there any tips for people who want to hire a guide? Yeah I mean I would just make sure
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you ask the right questions make sure that the guides you're hiring are hybrid fishing guides
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and they can they can actually go out and they have all the equipment that you need like a thumper
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a splasher good quality equipment and most importantly you know they have the drift socks
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because if you go out here and you're just spot locking and dead sticking you're probably not
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going to catch as many fish as we caught today honestly you just not you got to make sure you
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ask those right questions and make sure that the guide's experienced and you know and make sure
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that he's on them because you come out here in the cold weather and he's not on you're going to freeze your butt off. Finally I wanted to know what's the biggest difference between fishing for
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white bass on the lake in the summertime versus the wintertime here's what Brent had to say
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Well in the wintertime we're we're just finishing fishing vertical in between 38 and 55 feet
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in the summertime we're fishing on flats and edges and points with spinners and umbrella rigs and
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slabs and we're not using any of that right now we're used to using this strictly this straight
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up and down you know this bait needs to be nice and straight straight presentation with that with
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that bait with that fish because that's how they're eating it and you know a lot of times we'll just
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slowly raise it up and they'll come up for it like you guys saw on that active target today
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which I'm sure you're going to show a little video of that but that's pretty exciting fishing
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Yeah so you could see it you could see it on the display you could see the fish chasing
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if they were kind of pecking at it or they were kind of looking at it not really taking it you
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start to raise a little bit and they just chased after it and hammer it really fun. Special thanks
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to Brandon Jones photography it was so fun to fish and film with Brandon and mega thanks to
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Brent Herbeck check him out we'll put a link down below you can book him yourself and just catch a
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load of fish in the wintertime on Cedar Creek Lake or several other lakes around the Dallas
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Fort Worth area in North Texas. I'm Simon from LakeUp and CedarCreekLake.com get out on the
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water y'all catch some fish
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