Mickey and I met at 9:00 this morning at the waterfront and left for the North end of the lake. The wind was blowing but not enough to effect our fishing…to start. We started on the steep bank and went a good ways before we caught the first fish. The first one came on a DT-8. It was another good ways before another one was caught on the DT-8, but this one was caught when the hooks became tangled in the line and one hit it on top as it scooted across the water. The waves were large enough to where you would think no bass would hit a top water. When that one hit on top, Mickey got out the crazy shad and caught 3 in a relatively short time. The crazy shads he uses are the large ones that are not sold any more, one in particular that he has had since the 1970’s. One of the bass when hooked dove into a treetop and became hung up. We went over and Mickey stuck the rod down and freed the fish but as it came up the line broke. There was panic because the bait was in the fishes mouth, but the fish, now free, jumped and shook and the the bait came flying out of its mouth and was quickly scooped up to the great relief of all. The wind was increasing all the time and finally got to the point to where we had to search for a protected spot to fish . There were a couple of spots but they were small and there were no fish willing to bite present. Rather than beat a dead horse we headed for the wharf after catching 5 fish with the largest around 3 pounds.