Craig T. gave me some baits for my birthday a few years back and with them came this great poem he composed. It read

Someday the flood will pass

and the waters will go down

you’ll want to fish for bass

and get the hell outta town

By then the weather’ll be hot

and these baits you’ll need to keep

cos fish will not be on top

and you’ll need ’em to get deep

Mickey and I went to Ferguson this afternoon with the water rising slightly at 33.4 on the gauge. Before he left Mickey had  talked to Terry who informed him the bass in Lake Ferguson were 20 feet deep which is deeper than we usually fish. We started in bitespot #1 and drew a blank. 15 feet was about as deep as we fished there. We moved to another good spot with no luck there either. Finally we caught a small fish but it was shallow. We thought the Northeast wind and bluebird day might be part of the problem.  Two more good spots and nothing more. In the next place there were some bushes in about 10 feet of water where when your bait ran over the bushes a bass would hit but the volunteers ran out quickly. As always the next step was to put on a worm. That worked a little but when the worm came back to the boat I jigged it up and down and caught a fish directly under the boat. We backed out to deeper water and started catching more fish some still directly under the boat in 25 feet of water. I think that is the deepest I have ever caught a bass.  Today was a great lesson for us “shallow water”fishermen. We caught 15 with a FOD of 3 1/2 pounds.