I went to Ferguson this morning with fishing starting at 9:30. I could not find the magic school but the lake has been up and back down to 15 feet. The fish I caught were very scattered and were caught shallow on a rattletrap. In the spring when the lake fisrt goes down I find a lot of rattletraps hanging in the iron wood bushes. Onee compartment in one of my boxes could not hold another. The gars on the last two trips have helped me with the storage problems but especially today. Lost two to gars in the first hour and a half. Those were little gars too. The major period was supposed to be around noonand it was right on time. I was fishing in an old favorite place with a DT-10 when something just stopped it. For a few seconds I couldn’t get it to move. Then it jumped, completely clearing the water. I was not looking and didn’t get a good look but I could tell it was a good fish. When it came close to the boat it had another swimming along side. 4-12. Caught another smaller one that had a wingman too. I pulled out the Carolina rig later and caught another on it. Tried a couple more places but only another tremendous gar that relieved me of my Carolina rig. 8 bass in all with FOD of 4-12. Scales seemed to be stuck on 3-4, had 3 of thoseand one other 3. People practicing for another tournament this weekend, ugh.