After following the convoy of cars down the 5 mile dirt road checking in and loading the boat we were on the water by 6:30. One thing I can say is bring a trolling motor, the wind picks up and the little 2hp with no reverse makes it tough..

Started out rippin the shore with a flashminnow 110, my buddy hooked up with a crank fish on his second cast. As we drifted away from the shore I ripped 2 fish in the flats of a cove, and we fished that area for an hour and yanked on 6 more bass. I love a rip bite in the fall.

All that rippin was fun but we stroked em on dropshot no less than 10 foot of water. I lost count after about 15 is was wide open for a while. The bite stayed good throughout the day it was just tough to stay in position with no troll motor. We caught a few fish on rattletrap as well as the blade. My first fish on the spinnerbait pulled hard right on the edge of a weed line he was about 3 pounds, 2.5 pounds of fish and about .5 of some kind of cancer ball growing on the side of it, “weird.” Aside from that the quality fish here really impressed me here. I would say a solid 2.5 pound average with the biggest being over 4. We lost some 5-6 pound fish that dogged us in the weeds or wrapped us in the trees. These fish pull hard. Easy 50 fish day, but I will not go back without a trolling motor, it was to much work, pushing off the shore with an oar starting the motor up etc...

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