This morning I drove to Tunica to fish with Richard at Beaverdam.  We started a little after 7:20.  I started out with a Chatterbait and Richard had on a white swim jig with a creepy crawler trailer. The first four came two by two with each of us catching one almost at the same time.  This 4 – 4 was the FOD and came early on the Chatterbait.

Richard soon put on a ribbon tail Culprit worm that was black with a blue tail and it started taking names. A gar cut off my only Chatterbait and Richard supplied me with a Strike King Rage Blade behind which I put a Zoom chunk dipped in the red spike it. My casting started off pretty good but after awhile the accuracy deteriorated  and I started falling behind.  I picked up a spinning rod with a chartreuse and white swim jig and things picked up for me because of accuracy of casting. With the spinning rod you could skip the swim jig under the low hanging limbs all the way back to the tree. We would run into a pocket of fish and catch a couple then we would have to hunt to find another pocket. Most of the casts were short and many were under cypress limbs. The deepest bass we caught might have been in 3 1/2 feet of water and it was lurking on top of a log, so shallow in fact I saw the flash when it hit the swimjig. It seemed that the fish would be where there was deep shade and in almost a circle of trees. We would circle those spots like the indians circling a wagon train, throwing from all angles. As usual at Beaverdam, a few fish were caught right beside the boat, which makes for great excitement. The sky was cloudy for most of the day which kept the temperatures at a very pleasant level. All in all an extremely pleasant day of fishing, the fish bit quite steadily, and there was good conversation and company. We ended up with 33 healthy bass, two at 4 or better, most around two pounds or a little more, and a catfish. A splendid day!