The water temp in Lake Jackson on the North side of the dam was 67 degrees this morning when I started fishing. The coontail moss and the other grass is just below the surface. A little later in the year it will be all the way to the top. It looked perfect for a Ribbit frog.

You would think by the picture there would be a bass under every yard of that moss. It took me a while to figure out they were around the places where the moss was scattered.  When they decided to bite, they bit with gusto, knocking the tar out of the Ribbit. If they missed the first time, they would nail it the second time. The fish were a true black bass, almost black in color due to the clear water. Later on, I noticed the fish would only follow the frog and hit it if you stopped it or let it sit.  The scum frog came out then. The hooks were not sharp enough to suit me and after one escaped getting hooked it went back in and a swimbait came out. At first I used a Netbait 4 inch swimbait but changed later to a bass magic 4 1/2 inch one because the tail gave more of a thump. It was just like fishing a spinnerbait except it was more weedless and the moss would not bother it as much.  The Ribbits accounted for 4 and the swimbaits 3 for a total of seven before 11:00. The FOD was 3 1/4 shown here.

The wind was blowing from the start and finally, I think it was what made the fish quit hitting on top. There were a lot of birds that you do not usually see. Black crowned night herons,  anhingas, and some red breasted mergansers, I think, a pair sitting on a cypress limb just like some wood ducks.  Lake Jackson is a really neat place and would be a great place to go fish if Fred Abide hadn’t already been down there and caught all the fish.