This is a photo of the lures I’ve found, refurbished and used. Thought I’d take a picture of them because Mickey and I caught nothing to take a picture of on Ferguson today. I found two of the big crankbaits Thursday. Fished with them today and caught a bass on one. Out of the 12, bass have been caught on 7 or 8. Quite a few on the green rattletrap, as you can see by the condition of the paintjob.

We caught one apiece today along with 2 goos and some stripes. We both lost the best fish we hung today. Both came unpinned on the way to the boat. I saw mine, about 3, but Mickey’s got off right at the boat and we still didn’t see it. They were tentatively biting just like Thursday.

Hal caught 110 fish at Arkabutla Wednesday. He had 36 bass (largest 2 pounds), 51 stripes, 1 catfish, and, get this, 22 goos (up to 7 pounds). They were all caught in a 100 foot by 100 foot area on crankbaits. He and Richard went Thursday and only caught 65 assorted fish.  Hal is going to have to write a column in Goomaster Magazine.  He is the goo champ.