I awakened early this morning and could not go back to sleep so I got up and during coffee decided to go fishing since I have not been in a good while . The Garhole was where I wanted to go so I gathered my gear and took off. Deer season is on so I had to make sure no one was hunting on my way there because I didn’t want to ruin anyone’s hunt. At the signup the coast was clear, no one anywhere close. I signed in ” Garhole Fishing”. The jeep was going to be my transportation because of the wet roads. Since it was cold, I turned on the heater, which amounts to flipping up the windshield. The weather was calm with a little fog that was burning off. Fishing started slow at around 8:30. I decided that today was going to be a day of learning, as with a few different baits than I usually use. Instead of a worm or shaky head I was going to use a 1/2 ounce green jig and instead of a Booyah spinner bait I was going to use a bladed jig. The jig replaced the worm in an effort to keep all the small “tailbiter” bass from pestering me all day. You can be sure a DT-6 was on one rod however. Starting off in a place that is very good most of the time the results were disappointing with the DT-6, a DT-10 and the bladed jig but I finally caught one there on the 1/2 ounce jig and nearby one on the bladed jig. Things were slow, and I expected them to be, because the solunar tables showed the major feeding period to be from 5:40 to 7:40 in the afternoon. Usually, I have seen the actual bite starts 2 to 3 hours before the published time so I expected a slow start. Slow it was, one fish here and one there, none bunched up . By noon I had caught 9, with the largest at 3 – 10, the only one caught on the DT-6 early. The jig accounted for 4, as did the bladed jig. There are some water oak trees around the hole that are beginning to drop their acorns , a favorite deer food. A good many were hitting the water. The thought ran through my mind that maybe I should be in a stand somewhere instead of being in the boat fishing. I’ve always said the wind positions the fish in the Garhole and as I went around I tried to figure out where that spot was. Something turned on the switch at 1:00 and I stumbled into the spot. There was a fish on every cast with the DT-6 that had its photo in a previous Bitespot post because it was so torn up. It got a lot more damaged today but was still catching fish at the end of the day. It caught 14 fish in 40 minutes. The wind quit blowing and the fish stopped biting. The fish were of good size, 2 to 3 pounds almost every one, and they were hitting hard. No nips today. I ventured a little farther but not getting too far from that spot. The jig became hung up on some sticks under the water and as I motored over to get it unhooked a bass jumped. When I tried to unhook the snag I found that the fish was hooked on the bait. I had no idea it was there. It must have hooked itself. When your luck is running you need to go with it. There was another mini school that I caught a few more from but when the wind started blowing again I went back to the hot spot and, sure enough, it was every cast again for a short while before it slowed down to one every now and then. I weighed a few of the larger fish today that looked to be in the 3 pound range, and they were, but then things were going too fast, so I just started declaring the ones that I judged to be 3 or better. Fish number 40 was 4 – 8 the FOD (fish of the day), and number 41 was 4 – 5, the two of the day over 4. I weighed and judged that 11 fish were 3 pounds or better, counting the two 4’s. Most of the others were between 2 and 3 pounds all in all a great day of fishing. There were maybe a half dozen or so of the 43 fish that were less than a pound.