Since the weather was forecast to be windy Thursday I planned to go to the North end of Lake Chicot where I might be able to get out of the wind. The forecast was correct in spades. Early it was not too bad but the fish were playing hard to get. I caught a few on a Booyah but they were few and far between. For some reason I thought I might make it to Jackson’s squirrel log, but when I approached the dam that separates the North and South ends of the lake, I could see whitecaps on the other side of the bridge. When a strong South wind blows it creates a current through the passage under the bridge.  Indeed I caught the 3 pound FOD there but could convince only that one to bite. The wind was blowing so hard that, had I not caught my hat, I would have been blown into the drink.  I’ll have to admit, I became a little bored and started tinkering with my depth finder and took a couple of screenshots. The first one is a side finding view of a stretch bank I had just fished and caught nothing . Earlier I fished down it and caught a few until a man mowing the grass right down by the water ran me off with his noise. I wanted to see if there were any fish there that would not bite.

There were some there. If you click on the image to blow it up, you can see a few fish at the top between the 40 and 48 lines. There is also one around the 16 line at about a 45 degree angle from the temperature reading. The second screenshot is of the bottom under a buoy set to mark sunken Christmas trees to attract fish. You can see all the fish around the trees. A couple at the top of the screenshot are very long and I would bet are gars.

I ended up with just 8 bass.