Mickey and I both went to early church today and afterward headed to the private hole, arriving there and starting to fish around noon. We started out probing the deep with crankbaits and worms but not even a bite deep. I caught a small one in 30 feet of water on an XD5 but the fish hit the bait as soon as it hit the water. We continued the deep try for a while with nothing doing. We headed then to the spot where I caught some a few days ago on a Whopper Plopper. Mickey being an expert with a crazy shad, had never used a WP. He put one on to try and soon one came up and hit it with a vengeance. It seems the bass hit the WP with malice and intent to kill it. We really like that attitude because it makes for exciting fishing. In the middle of the afternoon the fish surprised us by hitting topwater lures. We kept going around the hole and the fish kept biting. I was a little hardheaded and kept fishing with my trusty Booyah a little too long. After Mickey caught a few more, I put on a WP too and started to get with the program.  The fish were getting the bait and not more than  few missed the bait completely. We finally quit a little after 6 figuring that shortly the mosquitoes were going to get bad. We ended up with 22 and a FOD of 2 1/2 pounds. Out of the 22 fish 16 were caught on a WP.

In other news, Hal sent a photo of his record grass carp that he snagged in the lake behind his house. He guessed it weighed around 50 pounds. He snagged it with a DT4 and probably would not have landed it had a benevolent neighbor not come up with a landing net. I tried to include the picture but when I did it erased the whole post and I had to  write it again. I’ll try to include it later after this is posted.