I heard Monticello was undergoing a draw down of 8 to 10 feet. I also heard that a good many fish were being caught. I had to go look.

All the brown dirt used to be covered with water. Look at all those sticks. A guy could get hung up out there. I could not use that landing and had to drive to the other one. I caught some in the 2 pound range on a Booyah pretty quickly but then I lost them. The water had 5 to 6 foot visibility. I ran upon some young guys that have been fishing there often, like every day, and they were fishing out in the open with a chug bug. They caught a few of the very small schooling fish but said sometimes the big ones will come up and bite. I saw them later and they had caught 15 or so but all small. They allowed that they had caught about 350 in the last month and a half. While talking to them, I had a good bite on a swimbait. The fish was strong and pulled drag but came unpinned shortly thereafter. Never saw it . I ended up with 4 . The Florida bass were at it again. After fishing a submerged pond levee with a swimbait, when I got close enough to see it, a bass bigger than the ones that I caught was down there looking at me and had evidently just watched the bait go by. Meanwhile Richard and Hal caught 47 at Beaverdam. This time of year the fishing up there really picks up.