I went to the private hole this morning for a couple of hours. Richard invited me to Beaverdam to fish but I had to decline his nice invitation due to my construction/flood repair project. I figured I could fish for a couple of hours and then go to the house since I’d already be up there. There was one problem.  I don’t wake up too well and after remembering to think about getting to battery, I still forgot it until I was on the other side of town. It cost 30 minutes of fishing time to go back to get it. When I finally got to the hole and ran the stumptail out from under the boat rack on the bank, I went straight across to a deep point with new laydowns.  Nobody home, but from there I saw some bass chasing shad.  First I threw the clown, a clown colored spook jr. which has a shiny gold body and a shiny red head. Two immediately nailed it but escaped so the substitute was sent in. The sub being a 1/4 ounce red eye shad that immediately started catching. It caught until a tighteye did one of those energy filled shakes right at the boat and snapped my 8 pound test. Now what? There was a “found” bait that looked like a Yozuri imitation that I have caught a lot of fish on in the box so it was put on.  I had used it so much the eye that you hook to had loosened. Some J B Weld had been applied to hold it straight but I couldn’t get it to run straight. It’s going to the scrap heap. Another “found” bait came out. Again it was one that was good at catching fish, a Rebel Deep Crank R which is no longer in production. It too had been repaired because of a leak that caused it to fill with water. Superglue held for a trip but then it leaked again, so out came the J B Weld again. It wouldn’t run straight either. Junk pile bound. Finally I put on one of the “poem” Rattletraps from Craig T. and it was catching too. By then an hour had gone by and the bite was slacking. That battery 30 minutes weighed heavily, since I had caught 9 in the first hour. I ended up with 12 and a FOD of  3 – 9. My DT-6 stash is down to two and the rest of the small crank bait box has taken a pretty good hit. Time for a trip to Bass Pro or maybe an internet order.