The Garhole is slowly falling which , I think, will be good as long at it does not go down too far.  I had company there too, but they left before the fish really turned on.  They were fishing with a worm around the bank and caught some too. I was fishing with a Ribbit out in the middle and caught a few right off the bat but my company had been there last week catching some out in the middle also.  Whether they kept any or not, I don’t know.   I hope not. In one side hole, look what came to check out the Ribbit.

I caught a movement out of the corner of my eye and there he was about 50 feet away. He was small, about 5 feet long. Young and too stupid to be afraid.  The Ribbit interested him a lot, especially when I pulled it fast and made it really sputter and throw a lot of water.  I threw it in his direction and started to pull it fast and the gator came after it on a plane, so fast I had to reel as fast as I could to make sure it didn’t catch the Ribbit. It came right up to the boat . I took this photo just as it was leaving.

I have been using a new scent on my baits. The more I use it, the more I think it is working. It comes in a tube like a big chapstick, with about the same consistency. Your bait still has a greasy feel after many casts.  What happened today to make me believe it works is a goggle eye got in behind my Ribbit and was following  trying to eat it.  I thought the goggle eye  was a small bass and I was trying to pull the bait out of its reach. The goggle eye latched onto one of the Ribbit’s feet  and I raised it into the boat before it let go.

The second photo is of the scent stick. Just remove the top and wipe it on.  The fish started to bite well about 9 and continued until about 11:30.  Here is one of the FODs @ 3 3/4.

This one got tangled in the depthfinder transducer  and I thought had escaped but  came free and was caught instead. It was one of the 4 over 3.  Toward noon, I started to fish with a worm and caught this 5 1/2 pound grinner.

The only reason it’s laying there so still is  I gave it a sedative, that is, a tap on the head with a cut off hoe handle. Eighteen bass today in an interesting day at the Garhole.