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Thursday, June 29th, 2017 | Author:

This morning for a change of pace I went to Lake Enterprise, arriving for fishing to start at 6:30. Not wanting to make the same mistake as last time, I motored directly to the 72 tree. As you would expect, there was nobody home. Thinking the school had moved, I fished in the area for about 45 minutes even running the side scan to try and find the school. Nothing worked. Then I went to a place where the duckweed was entirely across the lake. I was alternating with a Ribbit in the duckweed and a DT-6 in the open water. The DT-6 would work in the duckweed where it was not too thick but I caught no fish. Giving up on the open water duckweed, I started down the treeline fishing a Ribbit in the duckweed. Before too long I got a halfhearted bite and I thought the fish missed the bait. I finally tightened up on the line and saw the line was coming to the boat so I set the hook scared the fish would be hooked deep. It was hooked in the side of the jaw, just in the right spot. That was so good I continued down the treeline looking for more, but no more showed up. By now desperation had set in so out came a Rattletrap which had some of the sharpest hooks I have seen on one of those baits and I trolled with it. Pretty soon a real tight eye showed up, caught right out in the middle of the lake. The side scan showed no school but I went back through three times. Continuing on for a good distance another small bass showed up and again it was alone. Now I spied the end of the lake that was covered with duckweed and the wind was blowing directly into it.  The Ribbit came out and quickly started getting bites but from small bass. I caught a few but tried to find something that would work better. A few liked a shaky head with a small worm pulled across the top to the duckweed. Jackson and John Bishop came up in Jackson’s boat and caught a few but left because the bite seemed to be winding down. After they left, I pulled out in the open water just outside the duckweed and used a DT-6 and it started working. The fish outside the duckweed seemed to be larger than the ones under it but they were moving just like schooling bass do. The FOD of 3-2 came from there. There were a lot of tighteyes but some others in the 1 1/2 to 2 pound range. No real biggies but caught 27.

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