Richard came down to visit and fish in the Private Hole this morning. I would have forgotten my behind if it had not been tied on. After advertising eggs for breakfast, they were forgotten,  I forgot the trolling motor battery and had to turn around and go back to get it, and forgot the depthfinder and did not go back and get it. We got started on time regardless of the forgetting. The fish were cooperative from the start with Richard getting a strike on the first cast with a topwater. After that we started catching on DT-6’s and XD-5’s. The fish were not giants but each one stretched our line. Some had the sunken belly syndrome and some were just plain skinny. Some were just fine. I’m going to go back soon and try to catch a couple of the sunken bellied ones and take them to Terry who said he could get a scientist to tell what the problem was .  Here is one that Richard caught that had a 4 to 5 pound head and a 3 pound behind. It was the FOD.

When things slowed, Richard pulled out a black and blue jig with a blue trailer and really started to put fish in the boat. I was using a shaky head with a trick worm and had a hard time getting a bite for a while. A few fell prey to the curly tail grub on a jig head especially in shallow water.

In shallow water the bass hit it as soon as it hit the water. In one spot, Richard caught one on a worm and 3 or 4 of the fish’s buddies were trying to take the worm out of it’s mouth. I dropped mine down and caught one too but there were still a couple of fish swarming down under Richard’s fish.  A few more fell to the 5-XD  . The sun then came out from behind the clouds and started to sizzle. We then took our leave with 24 fish, 12 and 12, and it was 12 o’clock. It was a good day.