The second Lake X trip started with a flat on the boat trailer on the way to pick up Mickey. It was only a few blocks from his house so he came to help me change it. When I left home something did not sound right and I even tried to look in the mirror and check the boat trailer tires but I couldn’t see the one on the right side. It is the one on the dark side of the garage next to the wall. We got it changed and took off for the lake. When we arrived at the lake there was a cold wind blowing out of the North, so cold in fact I put on my rain suit to help me keep warm. It had rained more there than in Greenville and the bank was a little muddy. I did not wipe my feet before getting in the boat and soon the foot pedal to the trolling motor was very slick making it almost impossible to maneuver the boat. I had to get out on a grassy spot and wipe my feet off and then use a rag to clean off the pedal. We fished along the bank with a variety of baits, got a few bites, hooked a couple but catching none. Finally we caught one on a wacky worm and then one on a jerk bait. Due to the wind we were confined to one short stretch of bank. We had tried to fish with the wind down the bank but that was going too fast and we caught nothing. There was one other boat on the lake with three people in it that had caught 6. We continued to try as the weather started to slowly improve. As the wind died we were able to fish more of the area. The fish were close to the bank mostly. We caught a few more and finally the 5-15 FOD bit the wacky worm.

Characteristically, we fought it until late. We ended up with 7 bass and a funky little catfish. The other boat caught in the high teens and had “several 5 to 6 ” fish.