Richard was nice enough to have me fish with him at Beaverdam again Friday. We started out the day swimming  paddletail worms with a light weight. You could feel the vibrations the tail of the worm made.  Richard caught one and looked into its mouth and was amazed to find a half digested snake.

You can see that it was all wadded up. What you can’t see is the horrible smell that was coming from the snake. Richard pulled it out with his pliers.

The wind was blowing and we seemed to catch the fish where the waves were hitting a group of cypress trees. We reached one place where we encountered fish chasing shad last week. This was out in the open. I had been thinking about that spot and put into my tackle a chartreuse One Minus bait that I had found on a limb in Lake Chicot. A few casts and out came a 4 – 11 FOD Richard caught a couple on the paddletail and I caught another on the One Minus. Since last week I also had been thinking about using a Booyah around all those Cypress trees. I caught one early, and kept picking it up during the day only to get 3 or 4  more bumps and no takers. It was a bad day for me. Richard had to earn his pay going to get my hangups loose. We ended up with 18 bass and a goo. It’s been a snakey week for me. I saw this jewel in the woods the other day while looking for a place to bowhunt.  It would make a beautiful bracelet or necklace.