Mickey and I launched at the waterfront this morning at 9:00 a.m. with a slight Northeast wind. The wind eventually turned East and picked up a couple of notches. We rode down the lake aghast because it is so low, seeing things we had never seen. Upon reaching the North end, we started to fish going a long way down the 70 bank with no bites except from gars. All the wooden barges were visible but not all were completely out of the water which surprised me. I figured they would be high and dry. We finally caught a bass on a DT-10 that was right off of some rocks but could not get another bite. We rode across the lake to mark a place for the future when the water comes back up next year and the depth finder just lit up with fish.

What kind of fish is unknown but there are a lot of them. It was that way all over the lake. I hope they are not silver carp. We finally came upon a spot, again rocks, where we caught some on a DT-10 and a River to Sea tactical DD crankbait that dives a little deeper than a DT-10. I got the feeling those fish were just coming up out of the deep to feed. Someone has put a lot of fish attractors out in different spots and you can see them now. It was a lot of them and I’m sure it took a lot of work. Here is a photo of one.

Very simply made, cut open with a reciprocating saw and sunk with a concrete block inside. This was one of four in one spot. We ended up with 7 fish and I guess the largest was 2 1/2 pounds (not weighed).

The first time fishing in a good while due to the Wuhan, pneumonia, and the walking pneumonia. It was with great expectations that Mickey and I around 8:00 launched at Lake X. I had looked at the forecast but had not put enough attention to the wind, which was blowing pretty good when we started. We fished around some of the places where we usually have luck but nobody home except one smart aleck that pulled my rod down and escaped. We let the boat drift against a treetop in 3 to4 feet of water and dipped and dunked a worm in between the limbs, ala Garhole tactics. It was not working to start but soon one cooperated and came up between the limbs without getting hung up. We tried that two more treetops with no takers. By 10 the wind was howling making fishing hard. Had it not been for the spot lock on the trolling motor fishing would have been impossible. We would pull up beside a top, hit the spot lock, and fish until we got hung up or until we were satisfied there were no hungry fish there. Then on to the next one. The fish were very reluctant to bite and it took many casts to the same spot to entice them to finally bite. When they did bite it was hard to detect because of the wind. To make any progress against the wind, the trolling motor had to be on at least 8 and on spot lock the motor was running almost continuously . I was convinced that the batteries ( two 12 volts hooked in parallel) would not make it through the day. They did, but it will take until tomorrow to charge them back up. We ended up with 7 fish and a 3.87 or .78 FOD, I can’t remember which. The 4 we kept, <16 inches are going to make great table fare.