I went to the Garhole this morning not knowing whether I would have a boat to sit in. Been a long time since I have checked on it. I usually take a leaf blower with me when it’s been a long time since I have used the boat but rather than spend the time riding around to the house, I preferred to spend it fishing. The boat was a mess but it was fishable. Fishing started at 6:00. The DT-8 is a new crankbait that fills in between the 6 and 10. I had one and intended to try it out today so it went first. It looks like a junior sized DT-10. The body is the same size as a 6 but has a little larger straight diving bill like a 10. I am impressed by it . Casts as good or better than a DT-6 and it caught a fish in the first 10 minutes. That fish was the first and I thought was going to be the last. There was a long drought afterward that lasted an hour or two with a good many different baits in really good spots. Finally with a Carolina rig I had a bite, a sharp peck, but nobody home. I thought it may have been a gar but the plastic came back with all its appendages. A gar usually gets one of them. Over a short time there were two more with only one holding on for a short time. A little later I threw a DT-6 next to a log coming in to the water intending to fish the tree top, but a bass grabbed it before I made three turns of the reel. Next I dipped and dunked a worm in a top and caught another. Then another bass hit a DT-6 beside a log just like the other one and ended up the FOD 3 3/4. Had some more worm bites where the fish held on for a few seconds but then escaped. Had some other small ones on a 6 or 8 but nothing was really ever going on. The water temp was 91 on top but there was shade and the depth finder showed 31.7 feet deep at one point, plenty of cool water was available. I ended up with 7 bass. A pretty poor day in the Garhole.

Hal and Richard caught 37 the other day at Beaverdam fishing back through the cypress trees. It must be the shade keeping things cool.