I went to the Private Hole this morning about 10:00 with visions of bass jumping in the boat. The warm weather a day before a strong cold front should have made for a good day. I started with a 5XD in the spot where the fish were congregated last time. They were not there but I did go shallower and caught a couple on a red eye shad. The last time I went the trolling motor battery was giving out just when I quit so I was a little nervous. The wind was howling and even though the hole is, just that, a hole with high banks, it was difficult to fish. The leaves were on the water again but this time there were so many that they were everywhere. The wind was coming down an opening of a ditch and swirling around the hole. That made it like a toilet bowl full of leaves that had just been flushed. A leaf on at least every other cast. Some places where the leaves were solid you knew not to even try to throw into. The battery seemed to be holding up fine even with the wind.  When I returned to the house and plugged it up, it recharged too quickly telling me it is about to go. I write the purchase date on my batteries and this one was 12/08.  It’s about time for a new one. Back to the hole.  I caught a couple on a DT-6 here and there on the windblown bank where I expected to find the school but all I found were leaves. One big fish hit the DT-6. It was on for only a few seconds but I could not move it. I got so exasperated I had to leave at 2:10 after catching 6 bass. On the way to the house bucks were chasing does all over the woods. Should have been on the deer stand.