8/18

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9am-4pm, 2 hour fog delay

WT 87

same place as the last 

had some company with me yesterday.  We chased those green fish all day. It started out fast and furious with 1/4 oz lipless cranks for schooling kentuckies out over the channel but they were all under 12". Couldn't use topwaters out there because the gar were eating them like they were starving to death..  He saw some bass chasing shallow out on flats so we boogied over there and caught several 12-13" lm on little 1/4oz skirtless buzzbaits with a swimming fluke jr on it, but no keepers.

  Around noon we had a campfire and roasted some hot dogs. After a short break we went back to the channel only to find those fish had dispersed on the graph and were no longer in tight schools chasing bait so we went shallow again this time with bigger cranks and that's when the action picked up. I had taken a big squarebill I painted a crazy fluorescent color and modified the lip to make it a wake bait that dives less than a foot. Also removed the rear treble hook completely and replaced the front one with a single 3x  Trokar 1/0 ewg treble (fewer hooks ,fewer snags in heavy cover). It did the trick!  I caught a decent 3lb lm.  Another just shy of 3lb, and 4 more keepers in the 2lb range all were in ankle/shin deep water. The boat was sitting in about a foot of water. Tried to take some photos yesterday but that's hard to do when you leave your phone at home on the kitchen table, and his in the truck back at the ramp..

Had several decent bass just bump the crank from underneath with their mouths shut. I could see every fish eat it...or not haha.  He was throwing the same little buzz bait, and small topwaters but couldn't raise a fish. The bass wanted their prey at a snails pace and that modified crank had the speed/action they wanted. They would eat a slow bait just under the surface but their mood had changed from earlier in the day and they ignored the faster stuff on top. Stayed in that area too long I think and we may have spooked them because all of a sudden they just quit and we never had another bite for the last hour and a half no matter what we tried. All fish were released.