A friend is pretty well along in the process of making a big bass lake and needed some small fish under 16 inches taken out. I was more than happy to help out. The lake is 30 acres and has been sculptured with deep spots channels and has all sorts of cover. I didn’t start until around 10. When I started two boats were leaving and a guy said they had caught a 9 pounder along with a 7 and a 5. A 12 year old caught the 9. The guy that told me was using a spinner bait for his last few casts. The trusty Booyah was the first bait out of my bag after seeing that. I went a long time with no bites. After two small fish made a pass at the Booyah and neither really hit it, I changed to a wacky worm. I have been watching Major League Fishing and a lot of those good fishermen catch a lot of fish on wacky worms. They can take a spinning rod and skip those things right under a dock or up into a top. I had a small spinning rod with a reel spooled with braid. The pros use a fluorocarbon leader so I did some knot research and tied one on. The hook I used had a wire loop weed guard. Threw it right up into a fuzzy top and on about the third cast a small one grabbed it and came to the boat. Caught another quickly and was liking the wacky worm setup. The wind was blowing pretty hard and that made line control and bait control difficult but I managed to catch a few more but then ran into a pretty long lull in the middle of the afternoon. There were some people still catching a few however and I wanted to figure out what I was doing wrong. There is a lot of stringy green moss in the lake and about every other cast my bait would come up with some. When I figured out how to avoid the moss the results improved but still no really big fish. There were some over 16 inches but no really big ones. Finally later in the afternoon a 5-7 bit and gave me a tussle on that small spinning rod although it had 30 pound braid and a 12 pound leader. Bites were coming more rapidly, the wind was decreasing, and the gnats were getting a lot worse. The gnats were so bad they made me keep my shades on to keep them out of my eyes until almost dark . Before I quit, another 5 pound fish came to the scales making me feel a lot better. I ended up with 19 fish, 13 of which came home with me and 6 were released. Had a fun day and learned about how to fish a wacky worm. I also figured out that since you use a leader you might as well use some hi vis braid so you can exercise better line control and see a little more of what you’re doing.