Ooooh Wee did I take a whipping today on Ferguson. I went this morning at roughly 8:00 and fished to 1:30 without a bite. First I killed a lot of time looking for a way to get to a spot where we used to fish in the 1970’s. I tried to find the starting place but the map I had used to locate it was when the trees were green and without the leaves everything looks different. Adding to the problem is all of the dead wood floating and jamming up your ability to navigate once you leave the open lake. I gave up but when home I looked the GPS coordinates up on Google maps and am going to enter them as a waypoint on my electronics. The water temperature varied a lot today for some reason, from 50 in the open lake to as high as 56 in shallower areas that were out of the wind. I fished places where I have caught fish at this level, one of which is where I caught the first fish in Ferguson in 2020, a fat 6 1/2.

None of that today. Wind was blowing about 15 MPH but that was not the problem because I found some quiet spots. With the water this high, Lake Ferguson has turned into a couple of thousand acres of flooded ironwood bushes. My ability to fish those ironwoods is more like the problem.