I met Hal Friday at Enid for a day of fishing. We had not fished together in a long time so I was really looking forward to it.  The MDWFP fishing report said the bass were being caught on the points of the lake, and when we put in there was confirmation of that in the position of the boats. One boat was sitting on my favorite pile of rocks with no intention of moving soon. The major feeding period was in the afternoon, a good thing, since it took us a good time to get a pattern figured out. No fish was caught on a point and I can assure you I made Hal try a lot of them. We found the fish around cypress trees and bushes in 4 feet of water on the main lakebank. That was mentioned in the report too, but for some reason, I just glided right over that part. Most were caught on worms of some sort. Spinnerbaits and also a swim jig accounted for some too.  We ended up with 28 including the FOD of 6 – 1 or 2. I can’t remember which the scale settled on. What I can remember is it was hooked on the tongue patch and when I stuck my thumb it its mouth and lifted it from the water, I used only two fingers to remove the hook. It was barely hooked and I was lucky to get it in the boat.

I had a strange thing happen.  Just having retied because of a roughed up line (8# test Gamma copolymer), I made a cast and on the backcast the bait came loose. When I inspected the end of my line I found the knot had come loose.  Sometimes I tie the Trilene knot without my glasses, so I figured it was a slip up due to a misstied knot. But after it happened two more times in short order, I was scared senility had set in and I had forgotten how to tie the knot.  I made Hal stop fishing, we put on our glasses, and he watched me tie the knot. It was tied correctly except for cinching it down very tight and using my fingernail to push the wraps up tight together. No more problems after that.  When we left there was a boat,the same one or maybe another, still occupying my favorite rock pile.