Fished this afternoon starting about 4:00. I went to the meadow first where there were schools and schools of  gizzard shad. Each time a bird flew over they would scatter and sound like a bass passed through the middle of them. The water was beautiful and clear but you had to dodge the balls of floating fire ants. A whopper plopper and a swimbait were the two baits I used there but no interest was shown by the fish. Leaving there I went all the way to the levee in the upper lake where there were more shad. There is no reason in the world for a 2 pound and up bass in Lake Ferguson to bite an artificial lure because there are so many gizzard shad 6 to 9 inches long. I fished a long stretch of the levee with a swimbait, which you had to use due to the trash. Again no interest. In the distant past I have caught fish with a worm around the large cottonwood trees that grow on the large sandbar in the upperlake. I fixed up a shaky head and caught one around the first tree and the second one too. They were not large but I thought I had found them. Had one other bite on the shaky head and a smaller one hit at my swim jig twice and missed getting hooked. Found a couple and that was it but I got some good ideas for next time.