The rain has delayed the fishing this week. The farmers are catching hell getting their crops out because of it.  They are the ones that have the right to complain.  Four mornings this week I’ve awakened at 4:30 to just look at the radar and go back to bed. This morning was no different but at 8:00 the rain had passed Monticello. I started fishing  at 11 and was able to watch the first bass swallow my swimbait right next to the boat at 11:40.  3 – 13.  Later I caught a 5 -5 when it ate the bait on the fall. It made an all the way out of the water jump but the 8/0 Gamakatsu hook had him so well I had to get the pliers to get the hook out. Ran into some schooling bass later and caught  one on a Rapala DTF 3. They kept schooling but I couldn’t make them bite. Finally I put on a 3  1/2 inch swimbait with a jig head and caught one but it was a stripe rather than a black bass. Most of the schoolers were stripes. The wind started to pick up and the sky began to darken so at that point, frustrated by the schooling bass, I quit.