Since I did not sleep well last night, this morning I cut the alarm off and rolled back over for another couple of hours sleep. When I finally arose and made it to Lake Chicot I found the ramp in downtown Lake Village too shallow for me to use. The ramp at Connerly Bayou was shallow but usable. I had to use the “old folks” launching method where you tie a rope to the front of the boat and one end to the trailer. You back down until the boat floats off and then use the truck to pull the boat back to the bank. After I reached the main lake I ran aground and had to use the trolling motor to get off. As I ran down the lake I made my first observation, the only boat on the lake was sitting where I wanted to fish. It was a little after 9 when I stopped close by. The lake was slick on the lee side where I was fishing so I started with a super spook junior. The other boat was within view so I was again observing when they only caught one fish. I caught 2 along a slick sandy bank with a few more halfhearted strikes, indicating the fish really didn’t want the top water. Recently I procured some 1/4 oz Red Eye Shads that are just the size of the minnows that were everywhere so I put one on. I caught a couple more there but I was slow. I moved farther down that same bank. Observing again that whenever the shad would “flinch” you could cast to that spot and catch a fish usually. Since it was working well I started bearing down on the observation. Every now and then the fish would start hitting on the surface with shad going everywhere. By this time I had put a Yozuri on another rod hoping to get a comparison to the Red Eye as far as effectiveness was concerned. At the end of the day they were judged to be equal. The water was relatively shallow and I observed that the schooling fish were usually in the vicinity of a piece of brush sitting out by itself. When a spot would get burned out I would go riding looking for brush and was successful in finding fish by doing that. Many times when my bait would hit the water a shad would run and a bass would hit the shad rather than my bait. Can you imagine that? I quit about 3:30 with 27 bass . They were not that big but I am thankful for every one. The FOD was 2 -15. I tried to shake the scales to get it to 3 but no dice. A lot of the fish were just under the size of the FOD. PS: My new Millennium Boat seats were great. Today is the first time I have fished with them.