Hal and I went to Enid this morning and the water level was sitting at 236 just where we had a terrific day two years ago. A north wind, a full moon, a lunar eclipse and a time change had the bass and us all confused. We caught 4.

Mickey and I met at 9:00 this morning at the waterfront and left for the North end of the lake. The wind was blowing but not enough to effect our fishing…to start. We started on the steep bank and went a good ways before we caught the first fish. The first one came on a DT-8. It was another good ways before another one was caught on the DT-8, but this one was caught when the hooks became tangled in the line and one hit it on top as it scooted across the water. The waves were large enough to where you would think no bass would hit a top water. When that one hit on top, Mickey got out the crazy shad and caught 3 in a relatively short time. The crazy shads he uses are the large ones that are not sold any more, one in particular that he has had since the 1970’s. One of the bass when hooked dove into a treetop and became hung up. We went over and Mickey stuck the rod down and freed the fish but as it came up the line broke. There was panic because the bait was in the fishes mouth, but the fish, now free, jumped and shook and the the bait came flying out of its mouth and was quickly scooped up to the great relief of all. The wind was increasing all the time and finally got to the point to where we had to search for a protected spot to fish . There were a couple of spots but they were small and there were no fish willing to bite present. Rather than beat a dead horse we headed for the wharf after catching 5 fish with the largest around 3 pounds.

Hal and I met at the Wallace Creek landing on Enid at 7:00 on Tuesday. We had a great trip there two years ago with the water a little lower but we wanted to get a little jump on the water. We had a slow start as there was nothing on one of the primary spots. We just caught one close by but shallower than we thought. We left there and went to the main primary spot and were not disappointed as we caught 5 or 6 there including the coFOD’s at 3.5 each. Caught them mostly on spinnerbaits, some by the snags and some out beside them slow rolling where there are some rocks on the bottom that you can’t see above the water. From there we went to individual stumps and caught at least one fish on a little over half of them. It was hard to find stumps with enough water, about 3 feet, around them to hold fish. From there it was to a rocky point, but the water had fallen too far and was too shallow. Next we went across the lake to some other stumps that were hit or miss, although on one with some brush around it, we caught 3 on spinnerbaits and plastic. Next we revisited the first place where we caught fish but there were no takers. A deep spot on some rocks was next but only one tight eye on a portion of the smooth bank. Around the corner, we ran upon a school of stripes and caught a few, but left them because they were small. There were some tops in the distance that we tried but they were too shallow. Fishing our way out of the shallow spot, Hal spied some “nervous water” on a shallow bank where we “every casted” them with red eye shads until we caught 9 of varying sizes. Two more just going down the shallow bank and it was time to go. We ended up with 28 and the aforementioned FOD.