Today Mickey and I went to Lake Ferguson in his new boat. It’s a War Eagle with a 90 Yamaha two stroke. It rides well in the heavy water as we found out coming in with a 20 MPH South wind. Here is a photo.

We started in the end of the lake where it starts to get shallow.  We caught 2 extremely small bass to start but the fish were just bumping the Yozuri which prompted us to switch to worms and in Mickeys case a Carolina rig.  He dipped the tail in a dye solution with a strong garlic flavor and promptly started to wear me out.  I switched, dipped and tried to catch up but I could not. As we worked back down the bank I pulled out a DT-10 and started to make a small improvement .  We swapped back and forth from the DT-10 and a Carolina rig, or a “ball and chain” as it is known.  The fish seemed to be in small schools because where you’d catch one you were very likely to catch another. Then continuing down the bank it might be a long stretch with nothing. The fish did not hit on top very much. We saw only minimal shad chasing going on, and when the fish did show, they were generally small. We were not alone on the lake today. There were two tournaments and a bunch of other fishermen. If you will click on the following picture to enlarge it, you can see 6 or more boats at the mouth of the chute.

We didn’t see anybody just loading the boat and there was a lot of riding, a sure sign of a slow bite. I’m sure there were some fish being caught, but we did not see anyone catch one, and believe me, we are always paying attention. We ended up with 22 fish and a FOD of 4 – 4. For you tournament guys, our largest 5 weighed 17 pounds.