I stopped by a green willow top this morning on the way to the primary bitespot.  Only one small bass came out and hit the clown colored spook I offered.  Four or five gar volunteered so I moved on.  The bass were in same the general area as yesterday but had moved a few yards.  I found them after a few minutes and the game was on again. Today they were biting earlier than yesterday and didn’t seem to be as intent on getting the bait in their mouth. I had more today to come unbuttoned quickly and also lost more on the jump. Here is a photo of what was happening.

You can see the fish is not hooked in the mouth. They were just hitting at the bait and those good Rapala hooks were snagging the fish. When I first got there, I had two on one cast and got them to the boat before one escaped. In another instance, I had a 2 1/2 pounder coming to the boat and a 5 pounder was trying to take the bait out of his mouth. I was pulling for the 5 pounder to take it too.  Today was a tough one on my DT – 6s as I had a fish hooked and on the way to the boat when the line went slack. The diving bill had broken off on the DT – 6.

Later on the way back I hooked a silver carp and it made a searing run and the line popped even though the drag was set rather light. Lost DT – 6 #2 . After the bill breaking episode I put on a “found” DT – 6 in a crayfish color. Darrell emailed me after it was pictured on the Bitespot and said he lost it and just wanted me to catch some fish on it. He can rest easy because I did today.  I barely caught a fish after 8:30 this morning although I fished the same place three times. The second and third time they just were not hungry, hence the title to this post. Caught 31 total today with a FOD of 4 – 12 and two others over 3 pounds.