Jackson and I went to Lake Monticello this morning by way of McGhee due to the water over the highway from Dermott. We arrived in plenty of time to fish. The wind was blowing lightly but that would change. The water temperature started at 57 and went to 59 before the afternoon was over.We started in one of the North pointing fingers fishing all of the relatively shallow wood with a swimbait. In five minuted Jackson had chased the skunk. It took me a little longer to get going as I started off with a line snap as I set the hook.  One of these days I’ll learn to retie my line for each trip. A series of mishaps followed and turned into a comedy of errors. All the while, Jackson was steadily catching fish. I stuck with the swimbait and finally started to make it work better. We had a pretty good pattern worked out and stayed in fish most of the day. The wind was terrible for most of the day. Since we were in Jackson’s boat, he ran the trolling motor and the wind gave him fits. He handled the boat well but there are so many stumps it was difficult and tiring. Toward noon or a little after I began to come into my own and began to make the swimbait work. We ended the day with 26 fish and a 2 1/2 pound FOD. Had we caught all that bit or we had on we would have caught 20 more.

Went to Lake Enterprise and went with Jackson to some spots where he has been catching some fish. We started about 8:00 with our rainsuits on due to a light rain. The rain quit but the bass never started. We caught only one on a Rex spoon. The spoon was because we were fishing through a lot of weeds sticks and etc where it was easy to get hung up. A Rex spoon is a very weedless bait.

Hal mentioned that he caught his first Whopper Plopper bass of the year recently, three in fact. When we were talking about that today Jackson told me about some Youtube videos of violent topwater strikes. I just watched it and found myself laughing. They can be found at;   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ_S2fvWWew