Today Mickey and I went to early church and then headed for Lake Ferguson around 11:00. The water level was 18.4 on the Greenville gauge. We immediately went to the scene of our last trip that was so successful. Since I was out of DT-10’s, I put on a Poe’s crankbait that I found some years back. It was in pretty good shape when I found it but it had small hooks so I replaced them with large ones. We started off where the fish have been the last two times and again they were there. Most of the first ones were caught on a worm and weighed 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 pounds. After we caught around a dozen there, we headed off down the bank with the crankbaits and that’s when the ones over 5 pounds started showing up. Mickey was using a DT-10 and I had on the found Poe’s. Both were working.  I noticed a small, almost unnoticeable point and mentioned that we ought to try it. The FOD came from it at 6-0, along with several others.  By now the size had picked up some. As we went down the bank we would hang up every now and then on some underwater treetops. As I “jiggled” my bait trying to get it free all of a sudden it pulled back. I set the hook and a nice bass had unhooked it for me. I was nice too. I unhooked it and threw it back. That happened twice to me today. Early the bass were relatively close to the bank, but as the afternoon went on we caught more from the underwater tops. We caught 6 or more off of one particular top. Needless to say I marked it on my GPS. We took a few photos but it would take too much time to take photos of all the good ones. Here are a few:

The largest fish weights were 6-0, 5-12, 5-10, 5-10, 5-0, 4-4, 3-12, 3-8, 3-6, 4@3-0 . We had 20 others that would have conservatively weighed 2 1/2 each. We weighed some when we first started trying to get over 3 but most were 2-13.  We had 3 small bass that together would have weighed 1 1/2. The heaviest 5 fish weighed 28 pounds. There were 36 bass in all. If you add all the weights up it came to 106 pounds of bass. I have had days catching over 100 fish but the quality was not there as it was today. Hal and I back in antiquity caught 27 that weighed 87 pounds that was about the best up until now. Today was not without mishap. In bringing aboard a fish and trying not to let it hit the bottom of the boat too hard, I broke a rod. First one I can remember breaking but there are others at the Basspro just waiting for me to come and get.  Mickey fished with the same DT-10 almost all day,  hung it up and got it back several times. He said “I hate to say, but I’ve been fishing with this bait all day and have been getting it back”. Was not too long before it was gone.   I’m 70 years old and to think I can still have my best fishing trip ever gives me optimism that there may be more good ones to come. All that laughing we did today had to be good for our souls. I’m just glad I was not chasing a white ball on some golf course. WHAT A DAY ! !