Stick Marsh & Farm 13

Don A.K.A. (World's Worst Fisherman) holding one of those things he claims to have difficulty catching. Well, the truth be known, he did not catch this one either. However, we did not trust him to take the picture as he is known to drop things in the water and we value our camera too much, so we got him to pose. Yesterday we headed into the spillway to check the flow. Although it was increased the amount of debris flowing through made it difficult to get the baits through the drift. Heading out into the SE end of the Farm was a good move for us. Weightless Senkos and buzz baits worked over and around the spread out hydrilla, worked pretty good. Off to the east two pretty good storms were quickly making their way toward us but it looked as if it would split around the spillway area so back to the south we went. There, we finished out the day with Carolina rigged Senkos. Although we pulled out the rain gear just in case, we never got wet. It poured just south of the spillway, and it poured just north of the spillway as we caught fish in the spillway. We fished until 2:30 yesterday and found a total of 63 bass willing to play. When we were not in flowing water the key was spread out hydrilla and "Clear, clean water". This morning there was not a cloud in the sky and the stars twinkled brightly as we left from the ramp. Coated in Cutters to keep the pesky mosquitoes away, and already prepped for the upcoming sun by covering up with some 48 SPF, we flew across the mirrored surface of the Marsh headed for the SE end of the Farm. Based on what we observed yesterday we figured the water would be cleaned up in the spillway area and the bass would be almost ready to jump in the boat. By the time the sun rose over the horizon we had already boated 14 bass including some good sized ones. However the brighter it got the slower the bite was. Some came our way after biting a chrome and blue rattletrap and some came on Carolina rigged Senkos including the one below. Although long she did not have the gut to make her truly big, but even without the gut she weighed in at 7.5 pounds. We moved out into the lake about 9AM (32 bass boated) and fished until 11AM covering some of the areas that we normally fished, however the bite was slow and we only caught another 4 bass out there. We checked the pump house and although it was running the current was very weak. We checked the intersection of the center ditch and caught nothing. We did get 2 of the 4 just south of the intersection, 1 north of the intersection, and 1 in the SE area of the Farm. At 11AM we headed back to the spillway for a final check and managed another 7 bass before quitting. Basically what we found is the bite shut down not only in the spillway but also out on the lake. Oh well, there is always tomorrow. See you out there. Say hi if you get the chance. ,