This morning at the first good light I went to the private hole with the intention of first rigging up an old depth finder on my boat that I keep there and then going fishing.  The sonar is a Humminbird TCR 4 ID.  I wanted to fix it so when I finished fishing I could take the whole thing, wires and all, off of the boat. The purpose of removing the whole thing was so the rodents would not eat the wires.  After a brief vehicle swapping with  Gayden I was off fishing and soon caught the first fish of the new year. It bit a Rapala DTF 7, a flat sided diving and suspending bait. It’s supposed to go to 7 feet but in reality goes to over 10.  The fish was suspended out in the middle in 26 feet of water.

Keeping my eye on the prize of learning some new things,  I kept on with the suspending baits and caught a couple more including this one with an X Rap XRD 8 S.  X Rap Deep 8 Suspending.

I tried out some new baits too that I don’t even know the name of. No bites on either one or the bream swimbait from the last post.

Both baits were fished on the same jig head but the bite was so slow and light today it was hard to have any luck on anything that moved much at all. One of these was leech looking thing and the other was a small swimbait . The bream swimbait from the last post looked good but you had to move it fast to make it swim right and fast was not the ticket today.  Some were caught on the jerkbaits but most of the fish today were caught with a worm. The bites were light and hard to detect.  I ended up with a smooth 20 fish and a FOD of 3 – 0.  Of the new baits, the one I’m most excited about is a 3/4 size Ribbit frog  in an outstanding color. If I had acquired these before Christmas I believe I would have strung them and put them on the Christmas tree.

The first picture is the top and the other is the bottom.