The water has receded enough so the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks is able to open the lake. It opened Friday and there was a crowd this morning. I truck number nine. Don’t know when I arrived but fishing started at 6:11 with a Booyah down a step bank with cypress trees. It took longer than usual to get a bite and when it came it was like the fish just glommed up on it. Not a hard strike but I was glad to get the skunk chased away. Continuing down the bank I pulled out a swim jig because there were some trees with low lying limbs that the swim jig could skip under. Caught a couple on the jig before the Booyah came back out but only one more on it. I started to title this post “Over the Limit” because this morning I took 5 rods where 4 is my usual limit. All my fishing partners usually have me “outrodded”. The rods were for the Booyah, a worm , the swim jig, a DT-6, and a DT-10. At the end of this particular bank is a high bank that has a washdown that makes a little flat where the fish feed. When I arrived I threw a DT-10 because that is what I have used there with success in the past. Nothing, so out came a worm. Bites and fish started coming so the worm was it. By the time I left that spot I think I had 20. I had some spots I wanted to try but each of the first three had someone on it or near it. There was one that was empty so I stopped. I believe I had caught one or two when a root fooled me and I set the hook solid on it. As I eased over to get it free, I was shaking the line trying to get it off. As I neared the spot I noticed my line was going off in another direction so I set the hook again. The fish had taken the bait off of the cypress root, but as thanks it got a hook through the jaw. I quickly released it. The person had left the main spot I wanted to fish and I was preparing to go when another drove up. There is another place where I have had good luck that you would never suspect to be good. That is where I went. It was one every cast with a worm. As usual the wind was from just the wrong direction making fishing difficult, but with the fish biting like that I didn’t care. I figured out a way to make an anchor of sorts and things got easier. I even got out a DT-6 to see if it would work and it did but not as good as the worm. DT-6 WARNING: You have to watch a DT-6. The front snap ring that holds the front hook will stretch and allow the hook to come off. The front hook is a Number five and almost impossible to find. One came off of my DT-6 today, with the FOD 2-13, luckily in the boat. Hal had one to come off the other day and he lost the fish as well as the number 5 hook. I am going to change out all of my DT-6 snap rings on the first rainy day. The good spot slowed down so I left to try some other spots but of the 4 none were productive so I returned to the one where the fish were. They were still there but not every cast as before. I then tried all the spots that were occupied earlier and caught none in any of them. On the way back to the landing I stopped at the very first place and caught a few more but they were tired too. There were a lot of crappie fishermen out today, most with the spider rigs, some sitting in the back of the boat using the wireless trolling motor control to guide the boat while they sat under the umbrella and tended the poles. When I started this morning there were two local guys, one sat in the front seat and the other sat behind the steering wheel that were jig fishing around the cypress trees and logs. They were nonchalantly burning the crappie up. When I quit they were still burning them up. I just had to go over and tell them how much I enjoyed watching them catch a lot more fish than the guys with all the technology. They were nice guys and we had a very pleasant conversation. I ended up with 75 bass, a very few of which were a little over 2 pounds. A fun return to Wolf Lake. Quit at 3:00.