I set out this morning to go fishing but to be off of the lake before it got too hot. The high was forecast to be 97 degrees. Early, the wind was already blowing pretty hard, not white capping but so hard I had to put the trolling motor speed on 3 and sometimes 4. I started at a spot Mickey told me about but nothing was going on right off the bat. I saw some activity around a root and cast to it with a Booyah, getting two or three bites and missing them all.  By 7:30 I had caught 13, all around that same root.  When I could catch no more there, I left and went down the steep bank with a “found” DB-3. My “found” bait box is getting thinned out due to not finding any and normal attrition. I almost had some more casualtys today. I made a cast and on the retrieve hit something and set the hook. The line snapped at the rod tip, I’m sure due to getting pinched between the spool and the frame by my old 5500C.  I used the same line on a new reel. I put on another bait and since I thought it may have been a fish, I cast to the same spot and got hung up. The “gitter” was called and it came up with a hoop net, and sitting there were both baits that were dutifully rescued. The rescued bait and the 3 1/4 FOD.

The wind was blowing so hard it had muddied the water on a particular stretch of bank. On the way in I spied a slight point and stopped to try it out. I’ve always heard the bass will get on the edge of the mud line.  Sure enough I caught a couple there. I ended with 17 and was off of the lake at 10:30.