The Garhole gets its name from this alligator gar that lived there until the mid 1960’s.The gar now resides over the fireplace in the Catfish Point mess hall.  I went there this morning to see if I could catch a bass on a Ribbit frog. The water was very clear with a visibility of 5 feet.  The garhole has a lot of silver carp in it,  some coontail moss and some pennywort, all complements of flooding by the river.The coontail and the carp are both reasons the water is so clear. The carp are filter feeders and the moss filters the water too. Clear water causes the fish to have dark markings and they  look a lot better to me. I don’t know why I look so happy. Must have been concentrating on aiming the camera. I caught that one on a soft swimbait as were most that I caught today. I also used a hard swimbait, a shellcracker, but none of the bass today were big or hungry enough to bite it.  I had some to follow it but none messed  with it. Caught fish on two kinds of swimbaits, a Ribbit, a Rage Eliminator, and a worm. I used a 4 inch Netbait swimbait for most of the day and the bream gave me fits biting on the tail.  For the day 17 bass were caught and the FOD was 3 3/4. Jackson had loaned me his 35 pound recurve bow with a fish arrow to take care of some of the silver carp.  I tried to shoot a few but they always faded away when they saw movement.  My accuracy was not much either. The string was hurting my fingers and at the house I had one of those finger saving tabs so I set off to get it. On the way there, I thought about a .22 rifle with open sights that was more accurate than the bow.  When I returned with the rifle, I found the fish knew the right depth to keep the bullet from hurting them. No silver carp died today by my hand unfortunately, but just wait until next time.