I’ve been sitting in the turkey woods thinking how good the fishing must be on Lake Monticello. It especially happens when there is no action or chance of it. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. So after being lucky and killing my limit (one), Jackson and I headed to Monticello. The water was 68 degrees and higher than normal, which is good because you don’t get stuck on many stumps. We started with topwaters on a shallow point. Caught one on the second cast but it was a striped bass. They continued to pester us for quite a while. Their population has increased on Monticello. Next we went to the lily pads with a Ribbit . We got some bites but none were really serious about eating it.  Just to make a long story short we caught two bass. Our FOD was just over 4 and was caught on a shallow running crankbait. The real FOD was caught by a man that was fishing behind us but was bed fishing. We watched him catch one that was 9 pounds. He weighed it, took its picture and released it. I thanked him for releasing it.