I met Mark on the bank in front of his house at 6:30 this morning.  Curb service. It was , I believe, my second time to use the running lights on the boat. Lake Ferguson was falling slightly and was at about 20.4 feet.  We went right to the good spot but we went down the whole bank almost before we caught one. Slowly the fish started to cooperate and bit a worm better than anything else to start.  Mark put on a Yozuri lipless crankbait and started to work on them to the extent I rattled around in my tacklebag and came up with one too.  The fish were here and there but seemed to regroup in one place. We would fish there until no more bites and then go down the bank and come back. When we came back some others had moved in and would bite. As those schooling fish will do, they nipped at the bait, with many missing it or coming unpinned on the way to the boat. For some reason this morning I did not pull my book and mark each fish down. Maybe it was because of the slow start. About 9:00 I asked Mark how many he thought we had caught. 25 or 30 was the answer and that was about what I thought a conservative figure would be. We managed to catch about 5 more apiece before Mark had to go. The FOD so far was 2 – 14 . We both had invited a few home for supper.

After Mark left I went back for a few more casts. Nothing was happening when I returned and I had almost come to the conclusion Mark had left at the right time. There was some activity down the bank in what was supposed to be the best place but we had not had a bite there so far.  It was a bite every cast with the Yozuri to start off.  The willow leaves had accumulated so badly they fouled the bait on almost every cast so I used a worm. They didn’t miss it. I caught 20 more at least with  one being a 3 – 7 FOD. If you add 25+10+20 you get 55, not a bad fishing trip.