Mickey and I went to Ferguson (19.9 feet) this afternoon with a wind that was forecast at 11 MPH out of the NNE. When we launched it was more than that I think. We went straight to the 70 spot, where after a trip up and down it, we caught 8, mostly on a DT-10. That spot was out of the worst of the wind. The next place we went was not but had fish to be caught. Here are two examples:

 

One was 4.91 pounds and the other was 5.22. A DT-10 was the bait of choice. Most of the fish were of good size including several between 2 3/4 and 3 1/2 .  We left the windy spot and went back to the 70 spot where I hooked what I thought was a monster. When I came into sight I saw it was a silver carp hooked in the mouth. I wanted my bait back but I also wanted to weigh it because we were guessing that it weighed 25 pounds. It wouldn’t behave when it came close to the boat so Mickey administered a little sedative. They can’t stand too much of that cut off hoe handle. The fish weighed 13.7. We didn’t believe it and got out the other scale but 13.7 it was. When we looked at the fish it was naturally thin and skinny looking. After the 70 spot we went back to the windy spot where I lost my third DT-10 of the day. I hooked a bass that jumped and on the way to the boat got tangled with or hooked up with a silver carp that panicked and broke off my DT-10 right at the boat. The second one was lost to a gar that was hooked and had the line wrapped around its snout. When I administered the sedative the line broke and the fish swam off, with a headache I hope. The other DT-10 was lost on a hang up. When I let the lure retriever down the chains hooked on something that I thought were the lures hooks but when I put a strong pull the line broke and that was that. We caught 20 bass, the largest five were 20 pounds. A splendid day, even with the DT’s lost.