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Ferguson 17.7

Thursday, August 19th, 2021 | Author:

With 70% chance of rain today I was worried about the weather when I awoke and looked at the radar. It was covered but after I had my coffee it appeared that the storms that were coming were starting to evaporate like they have been doing all week. I headed to the lake a few minutes to 7:00. I reached where I wanted to start fishing about 7:45. Nothing was going on in the spot I caught the first ones Tuesday but I continued down that bank until I reached what I consider the best place. It was today. In short order A 3-0, a 5-3 and a 6-1 came to the boat. All but the 3-0 on the River 2 sea DD. The fish all hit very close to the boat which I had positioned right where the acute drop off started. When that had run out, I went looking where the schooling bass had been Tuesday but nobody home. I returned to the first place and caught a 4-12 (DD) but no others. From there I crossed the lake to the place I caught 6 Tuesday and fished it from stem to stern without a bite of any sort. On a cast to relatively shallow water the DD ($15.99) became hung and I could tell it was hung down deep in a submerged top and the line was over some springy limbs. If I dropped my gitter down the line it would not reach the bait. My boat hook was long enough to reach the top and I finally hooked it with the hook and pulled it up but the bait was hung down deep in it. The top was weighted down with something heavy making it more difficult but finally I was able to get the line untangled from the limbs and get it free and breathe a sigh of relief. On the way back to the wharf I stopped at Bitin’ spot #2 that my Daddy and I named it back in the 1960’s. Daddy liked to troll and as we went by one day the bass started hitting shad. We stopped and with our 500 Bombers caught a few. They weren’t stacked in there but I did catch a 5-0 on the DD. Only 8 bass today but some good size. 24 pounds even for the best 5. Best quality in a good while. EDIT: Someone else I know caught 23 fish with 5 over 5 pounds. Wow!

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