Mickey and I met at the ramp at 12:30 Wednesday for a trip in the hot afternoon. We started in what I thought was going to be the best place but there were a few small ones. A lot of pickups on a worm and then putdowns. There was one pickup and I anticipated a putdown so I just shook it at the fish. It picked up the bait and eased off with it. I hooked it and up came a nice fat 1 1/2 pound fish. Any other day it would have scarfed it run. That size fish seem to always be hungry, especially when some slow moving plastic comes by. As the afternoon progressed, the bite may have slowed even further. At almost dark that changed. We came upon a gravel ridge with XD5’s and caught 4 or 5 . There was an adventure back into a hole that is usually cut off from the lake. We caught a few there, but you could have almost walked across the carp. They were almost solid. Not the 30 pound variety but some smaller ones probably in the three pound range. In Ferguson striped bass were everywhere. We probably caught 20 with many more bites as the fish were small and we were fishing with an XD5 which is a pretty large bait. We ended up with 12 bass and a FOD of a little over 2 pounds.