After an uneventful opening morning turkey hunt on the Ides of March, I journeyed to the private hole to fish because the wind was too high to effectively turkey hunt. I caught 18 bass, 2 crappie and of course a grinner. I brought the crappie home for supper that night and left the grinner floating. The crappie and some of the bass were caught on a 1/4 oz Booyah spinnerbait. The other bass were caught on a shallow diving Rapala type bait that I found floating in Lake Monticello. I was going to use a rattling Rouge but looking at the hooks, I liked the ones on the found bait best. A couple of the bass hit it on top but most wanted it just under the surface. A photo of the bait.

I caught a few on a worm but only in places where anything else would get hung up. In one instance, I threw over a small stick, and when the bait hit, a tighteye hit it almost on top. When I set the hook with a little more force than usual, the seat back broke clean off. It was only due to catlike reflexes and fancy footwork that I didn’t end up sprawled in the back of the boat. The seat that broke was an old one that came on a tripod deer stand. I guess the sun finally took its toll. The other one was a donation from Mickey. Here you can see the broken one in the foreground.