When I started fishing on Lake Ferguson (33.3 ft.) this afternoon at 2:00 the lake was slick. Better to spot the feeding fish I thought. I went to the spot where Mickey and I caught a few the last time we fished Ferguson. It was just right but nothing. I couldn’t even find the Ed King spot due to the towing companies rearranging all the trees with the parked barges. I fished a couple of other spots, and in one, I spotted a fleeing shad. I noticed some shad jumping for joy today all over the lake but this one was getting out of town because something was after it. The water was 16 feet deep there so I threw a DT-10.  After several casts I finally connected and not surprisingly it was a stripe, and it was over 2 pounds. I could see the fish now on the depthfinder but they were hesitant to bite. The most effective way to get them to bite was to make a long cast and when  the bait got to where I thought they were, just sweep the rod and make the bait rip about 4 feet and stop. When I took up the slack the fish was there. I weighed a couple of the fish and they were over 2 pounds, big for stripes. Largemouths were non existent. I did get a few bumps on a Booyah but no hookups. I went to one place where there was an unbelievable amount of fish showing up on the depthfinder.  I could feel the DT-10 hitting them but no bites, carp I suspect. I took a screen shot and saved it on an SD card but I forgot and left the card in the depthfinder when came in. I will retrieve it tomorrow and update this post. Here it is:

I took the screenshot late.  Before I took it, the whole screen appeared like the left side.  Solid fish between 5 and 16 feet deep.