Tillatoba Lake is a U.S. Forest Service lake in the Holly Springs National Forest and is located North of Grenada. In looking over Google Maps for a place to Turkey hunt I ran across it. It was man made with many features that made me want to fish there. Hal and I met there at 6:00 Monday morning. We out in and started catching fish reasonably soon, all small. The lake is relatively shallow with the deepest water only 8 feet that I saw on the depth finder but the online map said 10 feet. The water temp was 76 degrees.I started off using a wacky worm and it was working well until I threw a loop on the spinning reel. Brand new line so I tried to unravel it but that would not happen. After almost 30 minutes, I delicately wrapped the line around the spool for attention later and put on another spool. The second one had issues too. I could cast out all the good line and got down to the backing. The knot where the good line was tied on was the problem. Caught the line coming off the spool every time. I had yet another spool with 8 pound Stren I think, so I put it on. Looped that one too. Borrowed one from Hal finally. Spinning reel was the only way to go because the fish were out in the open in shallow water. Long casts were a must. The bass were overpopulated and small all except for one at 5 even and a couple of others.

I intended to post a photo of Hal with it but the program took a fit and would not let me do it. EDIT: Tried again and it worked. The fish were so overpopulated, we should have taken every one we caught except two and given them to the people fishing on the bank. We stayed until 2:00 when the bite was about over and had a final tally of 49.