A Man For All Seasons
Sunday, August 27th, 2017 | Author: admin
The boat finally got into the private hole today about 3 in the afternoon. As I tied on the first bait, which was a DT-6, a small bass started to harass some bream on their beds. A backhand cast or two or three gave the bream a break by bringing the fish to the boat. A worm was tied on next and just to try it out I made a cast to a little hump close to the landing. The thump came just as the bait hit the bottom and upon hook set the fish came to the boat. That worked so well I threw to a small log that was in relatively shallow water and another thump, fish sequence. Could raise no more with the worm so I tied on a DT-10 and on  about the fifth cast it delivered one to the boat, although the fish was not one to brag on. Whopper Ploppers have been good in the private hole so one of those was tied on next. Unlike the other baits it did not produce right off the bat. The private hole was where you needed all of those different baits. Fish were hitting next to the bank or they would be biting 10 feet deep and all points in between. Finally there was a spot for the WP and a fish cooperated and blasted it. When I started the bite was really going on but after a while I could tell it as slowing down because one fish hit the WP and knocked it a foot into the air and did not come close to getting hooked. There was one spot where we caught them last time that 5 fish bit and only one was caught . The mosquitoes were hanging around a little too much for my liking so I had determined fishing would end before dark. I tried one of the good places again and caught the 2 1/2 FOD on a worm. I ended up with 16 bass.