Lots Of Small Bass

[wily]

i took the oldest boy and my fil to stockton yesterday. we put in at ruark, weather was nice albeit a little windy but i guess it always is at stockton...water temp was 66 and it's stained. we tried to fish pockets, and points with the wind blowing into them but sometimes retreated to calmer water to warm up.

we caught lots of small bass on crankbaits...my son's favorite bait is a gray shad rap, and he caught his share on it. which included a 17 inch walleye on it.

i was using a white and chart bandit 200 -- i caught quite a few 12 - 13 inch bass on it, and 3 nice white bass. i also used a jig, and a tx rig finesse worm to pitch to the flooded bushes in the calmer areas. i caught tons of 8 - 12 inch bass on those two. my only keeper bass of the day came on a 1/2 oz football jig in about 20 foot of water.

My fil was intent on catching some crappie...he didn't have any luck with the crappie -- my guess is they were deeper than we were fishing.