Richard and I met at the landing at BD this morning about 6:30. We tried to start early because I had to leave to get back and see about some work being done at my house. After we launched, we headed North down the bank with 3/16 oz. spinnerbaits. The fish nipped at them a couple of times but none made it to the boat until Richard broke out the swim jig. I have not used a swim jig much and I was eager for a lesson. I got what I wanted. We caught most on a swim jig but some on the spinnerbait and some on a Yum version of a swim Senko which is a straight short worm with a club tail to make it swim. The swinning worm only had a 1/8 oz. weight. The swim jig we used was a 3/16 oz. custom made one with a creepy crawler tail.

In the background you can see what kind of territory we were fishing in. We probably caught most on the jig. Richard had a spate of bad luck that lasted about half the day. He would hook a fish and have it half way to the boat and it would come unpinned or it would get close to the boat and start frolicking and come loose. I watched and tried to figure out what was happening so I might be able to offer advice on how to make a correction but there was nothing I could see that would help. We tried to figure how many got away that way and came up with conservatively at least a dozen. As the time to leave approached, so did a thunderstorm and the fish were biting pretty good. Just as we got the boat out it started to sprinkle. We ended a fun day with 15 bass, a crappie, a gar, and almost a 7 to 8 pound catfish. The FOD was 4 – 1.