After deer hunting this morning, I arrived at the private hole about 10:30. The water has dropped a good bit since I was there last on October 6th. The boat was high and dry. When I left it last, the back of the boat rack was touching the water.

I used  my leaf blower to get the leaves out and after a little heave ho was ready to set sail. To start, a DT-6, a spot remover, and a swim jig the Mickey gave me were tied on. Look what caught the first one, and notice the fish only had one of the rear hooks.

The next one was hooked the same way and after a while there were no more bites. I started to get the feeling they really didn’t want it. The spot remover shakey head was next. A spot remover has a flat front of the lead head to make it stand up on the bottom and the worm stick straight up. They have good large hooks that are effective. If there is a downside, it’s that they seem to get hung up more because of the flat front of the head. The spot remover caught some but you had to shake it to make them bite and when they did it was light. Today was a blue bird day with a Northwest wind so you could assume it was not going to be easy. Most of the fish were relatively shallow. There is new wood showing each time I go. This time a tree appeared in 20 feet of water. Another top appeared in a favorite spot that gets fished every time but I never knew it was there. The 2011 flood placed a lot of new tops in new places.

This is the 4 1/2 FOD. There was also a 4 and a 3 1/4, 10 fish in all.  I quit at 3:00.