I Stunk it Up

[Bill Babler]

What a difference a couple of days makes.

Guided the rock on Wed afternoon and really had a pretty good trip dragging a watermellon candy french fry. 16 and 3.

Thurday during the first really cold morning of the year, I came back again in the Baxter area with 11 with 5 great keepers including 2 bronze backs in the 3lb. range. Fish came on the cendpide in the 32 ft. range with lots of shad on the flats.

Jerry and Dave Holschen were the victims on Fri, and I mean victims, as we fished 8 hrs. with these guys, and I mean they were fisherman. Very Good hands. 3 total fish for 8 hrs with one nice 19 inch smallie as the top prize.

I had totally lost the fish. Nothing on the flats of drops or humps, I mean no shad no nothing but cold temps.

SKMO I know caught some fish drop shotting wood in the same general area. Extremely cold temps, probably but the fish on the wood, but I was just not smart enough to adapt. I sucked really bad and probably moved to much. I think the fish that were out there just were not feeding and hugging the bottom.

Jerry a good spoon man would have dropped the spoon, if we could have found some fish to feed it too.

Heard they bit like pigs on Saturday during the power generation on taney. SkMO did really well on the spots I fished at the knob, where I saw nothing, he said the flats were covered with shad.

Tip Paige reported 25 fish and 3 keepers at the dam with lots of bait on places that were completely void of life on Friday. Go figure.

Boy, I need a break, an am going to the deer woods for a week. Be good while Im gone.