Wanted to try something a bit different today, so I started the day off with a weightless soft jerkbait.

Kept getting nips from perch. Started off shallow at first and worked myself out into deeper water. For a while, I was sitting in about 20' of water with tube and dropshot to see if I could find a bass.

About 1.5 hrs in, I finally found a bass, dink on a dropshot next to a moored boat in 15' of water. I weaved back and forth along that stretch of area. Caught me about 5-6 dinks ranging from 7-11" on the dropshot. Depths ranged from 3' to almost 18'. The "biggest" one of the bunch was in deeper water.

I see the water is rippled heading my direction.... There's that wind. I switch to my swimbait for a bit and got several taps and get a dink.

I was near shore and ran my swimbait past a dock with no indication. Then I threw my tube and got a bite right away. A dink but I see a bigger fish following @ ~15".


I boat to the other side of the lake caught a few more dinks on DS and swimbait. I had some line twist on my DS combo, so I made a super long cast. There was a moored boat nearby and a couple of mooring ballons? Anyways, I wasn't really casting there, I was just trying to clear line. Well, as I was making sure the twist loop was gone on my reel, I felt weight. So I set the hook and fish on! Pathetic, but biggest fish for the day at 13". It was spitting out this white wormy looking thing. I thought it was digested baitfish again, so I went to scoop it up into my next to see exactly what it was. Best way to describe it is, looked like a hollowed out white earth worm. Was pretty gross, so I dumped it immediately.

I went over the spot where I casted and it was 21'.

I lost track of how many perch I caught. They destroyed my dropshot baits. But they were fun.

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