Mickey and I started fishing on Lake X at 6:10. Disaster struck immediately. Not being able to stir up a top water bite on a beautiful morning for it, I put on a 3/4 ounce red eye shad and started casting around the bank . Right away I had a hard hit and started to fight a strong fish. I couldn’t move it much and it did not come to the top to show itself. It had almost become an open water stand off and the line broke. Only 3/4 ounce red eye gone. Not retying bit me in the butt again. The line looked as if it had been pinched where it broke, not at the knot. Bad start makes for a good ending the old rationalization goes. We then started to catch some on worms. It seems the fish were sort of schooled up on one particular section of bank so we went up and down. Mickey came up with this one, 4-12 I think I remember.

We continued with the worms until we came upon a shallow spot where the red eyes came back out, a 1/2 ounce one that is. We caught several more smaller ones but then a 6 1/4 showed up. When that place ran out we went back to the worms fished into the cover and caught some more good ones, almost just one at a time. Then bad luck struck again when Mickey hooked one on a known high spot and had a battle going on for a good while. It was another open water standoff that came to and end when the hooks pulled out. We were getting pressed for time and decided to go back to the first shallow spot. We caught nothing there this time. The question is, where did all those fish come from and then where did they go? It became obvious that the bite was over and we were headed to load the boat. We caught 24 in all counting 4 small ones with a long handle net. From memory we had 3 at 4 3/4, and 3 more over 4, and the 6 1/4 FOD.