When I went to ready my boat in the private hole the day before I planned on fishing there there were 5 boats on the bank.  This made me a little nervous because the last time I went there I noticed my favorite and most productive spot was not as good as usual. I figured I had been getting some “help”. Saturday morning I arrived very early and a friend was already there. Fishing started off slow for me, but my friend was catching a few with a worm. The Cripple Killer topwater got the call for me. Not much happening there so I switched to a worm and still nothing. As the light got a little brighter some bass started knocking bream up on the bank. The topwater worked well on them. The fish were running in packs and if you caught one you might catch three in the same place. It was useless to fish on top unless you saw some action going on. While waiting I put on a deep diving “found” crankbait, a “found” one because they go deeper than my retriever pole will reach. The crank bait worked well until a large catfish  bit and when it got to the boat had rolled in the water like they love to do and had snagged the line on one of the hooks. Of course this cut the line and the fish just sat there tired from the fight with my bait in its mouth. When I tried to catch one of the hooks with a line guide to fish revived and swam off with my bait. Around 9:00 the bite picked up and the crankbait was doing well. I hooked one in the 6 pound range that came up and shook giving me the bait back. I ended up with 22 and a FOD of 4 -2.

This has nothing to do with fishing but I try to put interesting things on here that people might be interested in.  Rob and his sons went out on a sandbar and one of the boys found an ancient buffalo skull complete with the horns. It was only the top part of the skull but it is quite impressive. Here it is.

They also found a jawbone with places where the teeth were and also a hole where the tusk was.. In the photo his hand is where the teeth were and you can see the tusk hole. Craig, Sam and I went today, found 500 acres of rocks but nothing of any significance.