Mickey and I started fishing at the Garhole about 11:00 today.  The fish started out a little slow but quickly sped up to wide open. Out of the first 8 fish we had two 3 – 7s and a 4 – 12.  A chartreuse Booyah spinnerbait was once again the bait of the day.  The fish were concentrated in a cove with the wind blowing straight into it.  The wind must have blown in debris that the baitfish feed on and then the bass were there for the baitfish. This is a photo of one that Mickey caught. The photographer got him to hold it out to the camera so you could really see the fish.  Also making it look larger.

In our first pass around the Garhole we had 18 including a 4 – 15 and a 5 – 1. When we started feeling kind of smug is when the worm started to turn. The bite started to shut down. We circled the hole a few more times but fish were harder to come by. We ended up with 34 bass, 3 crappie, a grinner, and a silver carp hooked in the bottom lip. Photo of the 5 -1 FOD.

As we arrived at Mickeys house, Jackson called and said he had been out on Lake Enterprise with a friend and saw bass schooling. They let the wind blow them into the schooling fish where Jackson hooked 7 on the first 7 casts and caught 6.  They went on to catch 60 with 3 in the over 4 range and 6 to7 more in the over 3 pound range.  They caught the fish on a rattle trap and a Xrap 10 jerkbait.  Mickey and I just thought we had a good day.  I guess we did have a good day but Jackson and friend had a great day.

UPDATE:  Mickey invited all the fish under 13 inches home for supper, and while cleaning them he noticed almost 90% of those small fish had the yellow egg masses in them. We are trying to keep the population in the Garhole from getting out of hand and it appears that we had better catch some more quickly if we plan to accomplish our goal.