Thursday Mickey and I left the ramp at 11:30 with the lake at 16.3, down 1.4 from Tuesday when I had good luck. We went directly to Tuesday’s good spot but only were able to catch two small ones that reluctantly bit a worm. Right away, I thought a gar snipped my DT6 off and I waited for it to pop back up like it sometimes will. As I was fussing and tying on another bait, I saw a catfish just under the surface trying to get the DT 6 out of its mouth. I tried to get the boat hook out to save the bait but the boat blew too close and the fish left. The truth was I had tied a sorry knot and had not pulled on it to check. After the catfish episode, we tried the 70 bank with about the same luck as the first spot. After a couple of spots on the steep bank with no luck we stumbled onto a few fish in a place I haven’t had any luck in a long time. Mickey quickly caught the FOD , a 6 -2 on a DT 6.

We were still quizzical about where all those fish from the other day had gone. We went back to that spot and tried again but still nothing. Mickey looked down the bank and said “that looks like a slight point down there” so we went to investigate. We were sitting in 9 feet of water throwing into probably 4 feet. It was not too long before we had one, and then another all on a DT 6. The fish were of good size in the 2+ pound range. The action was pretty fast but the pressure really went up when we both caught a 5 pound fish at the same time. It was a great photo op but we were in a hurry because we wanted to catch some more of those 5’s. It reminded me of this old pic when Hal and I caught two biggies in Enid. This one will just have to do.

There was not much of a point and also not much of a rhyme or reason for the fish to be in that spot. It is such a nondescript spot you would never think of fishing there. They were three tenths of a mile from the spot they were in last Tuesday. I guess it makes sense that the water is falling and the fish are following it . We then went back to the old time spot and caught some more. One big one gave me the scold by jumping a foot out of the water with its mouth shut and threw the bait back at me. After that gave out, it was getting late and so we made a break for the ramp. I have two Shimano Citicas that I have had for a long time. One has always been better, as far as casting is concerned, than the other. Last fall I changed the bearings and some other parts and inadvertently swapped the rod the reels had been on. The bad one now was on the rod I use for a DT 6. The bad one would throw perfectly one time and fuzz up with a backlash on the very next cast. Under the cast  adjustment cap was a small piece of material like thin cardboard that I figured had to be the problem. I cut out a piece of plastic from a chemical jug that would be slick and fitted it to the hole in the cast control cap. Today I tested it and it worked perfectly. If I had not caught a fish it would have been a great day just for getting that reel fixed. But we caught some fish 32 to be exact with a 6-2, 5-2, 5-0, 4-3, and a 3-12  for a 24-3 for the best five.