Last  year on August 10th Jackson and I went to Lake Chicot and caught 103 bass so I thought it would be appropriate to go again this year. Of course, we were hoping for the same results knowing it was not likely to happen. Early we could tell the bite was just not going on, even right at first light. After fishing down the bank where we usually do well we only had two fish. After trading sides of the lake, we finally saw a little activity and caught a couple more on a cripple killer and a rage tail shad. We missed a few more because they still didn’t exactly want the bait. Yozuri time was next and the fish seemed to like it. There was a little schooling going on but the schools were small and moved around quickly as opposed to last year when they were large and stayed in one spot until you caught 20. The lake was almost slick due to no wind. I’ve come to believe the wind, in moderate amounts, is your friend because it positions the bass where the prey is directed. Wind blows plankton, shad come to eat the plankton and the bass come to eat the shad. There was a commotion that drew our attention because we thought it was some bass feeding. On approaching it we saw it was a silver carp circling on and near the surface.  On one of its circles we saw a growth on the top of its head that was obviously about to kill it. I hope it is contagious to the rest of those things. We quit about noon with two dozen  bass and a FOD of 2 -13.