Daylight Thursday , once again, saw  Jackson and me at the landing at Lake Monticello.  When we started, there were fish schooling and chasing shad. After a few casts one gobbled my topwater bait, deep into its mouth, as if it really wanted it. Optimism reigned at that point. A short time later Jackson hooked a good fish on a square billed crankbait, a Strike King KVD 2.5 I believe. The fish eventually jumped and unfortunately threw the hook. It was in the 4 to 5 pound range and would have been the FOD. When we arrived at a shallow pond levee we had a little more action with a Booyah but, by now it was obvious the bite was diminishing. We tried other places where fish have been caught in the past but for a long time had no luck. When the wind stopped and the water became glassy smooth, we saw some activity out in the middle of one of the coves in water 20+ feet deep. The fish were small but one a little larger finally hit the topwater and on the second try the back hook connected. Then we tried some other coves where the water would be slick. Sure enough, we came upon one where the fish came up and were a little larger. Some came up within casting range and we had a double on about 3 pounds each but only one made it to the boat. Again optimism reigned but most of the other ones were too small to get the bait. I had on a Strike King King Shad which is a large bait with good hooks and looks just like a large shad. I believe the fish were coming to the top and then going right back down to the bottom after hitting the shad. My bait would run about 6 feet deep but I never was able to catch anything blind casting. A rain sneaked up on us, no lightning, and started to come down pretty hard so we made a dash for the landing. On the way we ran out of the rain but as we put the boat on the trailer it caught us again. We waited it out in the truck and launched again as the rain quit. We went to a new cove with another pond and they were there too. A few volunteered on top but most were small. It was getting late and had been a long day so we quit after catching 11 with a FOD ~= 3 pounds. Again we let too many that were hooked throw the bait and escape.