Mickey and I went back to Lee this morning.  We fished down a bank that we knew had some fish on it, it being our job to figure out how to catch them.  I caught one quickly on a Red Eye Shad but Mickey answered with two good ones on a DT-16. That being the case, I got out the DT-16 and followed suit.  Mickey gave me an early Christmas present in the form of an 18 foot long lure retriever, which we needed fairly soon.  The hang up felt like a net so I turned the retriever like a screw figuring I’d just pull it up. Wrong again!  The end just pulled out and we lost both bait and the end section of the retriever. We continued to catch good fish but also continued to lose a bait now and then.  After I lost a DT-16, I went into the “found” bait box and came out with a large Fat Free Shad that I found hanging high in a tree in Lake Monticello. To get it, I had had to stand on the front deck on tiptoes and hold my lure retriever on the very end and put the hook on the rear treble of the FFS to pull it down.  After catching a few on the FFS, it too was donated to the deep. Back to the “found” bait box I came out with a DB-3 that made it through the rest of the day. Here is a picture of Mickey with the FOD, a 4-11.

A few were caught schooling near the bank on a Yozuri or Red Eye Shad but most of the good fish were caught in deeper water on the deep cranks.  We caught 6 over 4 pounds, with the largest 5 weighing in at 22 pounds. Twenty three bass was the final count.