Today at 9 a.m., Tom , Jackson and I went to Lake Enterprise for the season opener. It started out slow. We were fishing out in the middle of the lake starting out with a deep suspending Rogue, a swimbait, a Carolina rig, a fat free shad, and a DT-10. The water was 10 to 12 feet deep in most places we fished and was around 51 degrees. You had to be careful to hold your rod up during the retrieve so your DT-10 would not pull up all the leaves from the cypress trees that were on the bottom. The Rogue struck first on a bass not much longer than it was. Shortly thereafter the fat free shad came up with one that was bigger. Jackson had to leave at 11:30 and when he did Tom and I left for the far end of the lake and ran upon the pipe that was letting water in the lake from Bayou Bartholomew. We caught two there on a swim jig. From there we idled along eating a sandwich and looking at the depthfinder. The lake was full of shad in balls in some places. Tom was watching for bass under the shad and soon said “There they are” and stopped the boat. He made a cast back toward where he had seen the fish and sure enough, one loaded on. Then I had two bites right at the boat on two successive casts   but missed them both. As we went down that side we started to catch a fish here and there. Then I caught one that was 4-4.

Not to be left out Tom caught one 4-10 and another 4-14 that claimed FOD honors.

We finally came to a place where it was a fish every few casts. By this time we were using a DT-10 and another diving crank bait. We were using them as if we were fishing a worm, pulling in by lifting the rod tip and then reeling in the slack.When you stopped pulling in and paused the bait while you reeled the slack was when the bite would come. We quit at 4 with a total of 22 bass with 4 over 4 and the biggest 5 weighing 21 pounds 5 ounces. An outstanding start to 2016.