The low water then high water malady, whatever it is, continues to affect anything connected to the river. I went to the private hole this afternoon about 4:00 and fished until 7:00 catching 4 fish, 2 on Ribbits and 2 on a hydra headed Senko swim. I call it  hydra headed, because if you look closely at the photo you can see the skirt like appendages on the head of the bait. It resembles the many headed monster in Greek Mythology that was slain by Hercules.On the shaky head it looks almost like a jig with a long swimming tail. All of the appendages slow the fall of the bait and the tail swims on the fall.

I bought them on a guess and I’m really beginning to like them. The private hole is primed for the future. There are 4 inch bass swimming everywhere as well as small bream. What I saw today that makes me optimistic is millions of shad. They swam by the boat in droves and they were showing up on the depth finder. The future is fine but after fishing in some great spots and not getting a bite, spots where at this water level you can sit in one spot and catch 15 or more, I’m going to take my boat out of there . I really don’t know where I’m going to put it because every place to fish around there is connected to the river one way or another. By the way the FOD was 4-9 and was caught on the Senko in the first 20 minutes.