My fishing has been so bad lately I got Jackson to “guide” me on Lake Chicot this morning. He’s been burning them up there for the last month. We went straight to one of his good spots and started catching fish, Jackson with a small shallow running Lucky Craft bait first and then a Red Eye Shad.  I started with a Yozuri and they liked it a lot.  I was coming to the boat with a cast and the Yozuri was rattling up a storm when a silver carp ran from the Yozuri and jumped into my lap and then into the boat.  Those things are quick because it slimed my pants and pooped on them as it passed by and of course it made a mess in the bottom of the boat. Scared me to death. A gar grabbed my Yozuri and powered through a fence and broke me off. Next on was a rattletrap but it missed a good many pretty quickly (EDIT: It happened to be the only one in my box with doubtful hooks. The hooks on the other rattletraps are sharp.)  I then put on a Red Eye Shad. The hooks on the Red Eye are superb and will catch anything that comes near. At one time almost every one I caught was hooked on the outside of its mouth.

We had some mishaps today that turned out to be good in the end. In one I had put on a spoon to use to fish through some weeds.  There was a small snarl of line on the reel that I tried to throw out. The line buzzed on the reel and broke taking some line and a Rex spoon with it, and leaving a terrific backlash. I stuck my rod into the water and finally came up with the line, pulled it in and got my bait back.  EDIT:  Believe it or not, I was able to pick the backlash out in about 20 minutes yesterday afternoon without the use of a pocket knife.

Jackson beat that feat. He made a cast and his line snapped with a Red Eye on and a long piece of line attached.  An hour and a half  later I hung the line and we pulled in the bait which had two bass on it.

No biggies but two never the less. There were also three other instances today where I caught two at a time and one where Jackson had on two and got them to the boat where one escaped. By 1:15 we had caught 103 bass. The FOD of course was the lap carp. What is so amazing is the bass have been in the same shallow places for a month. What fun !