WARNING! The lake level is down pretty good and the concrete boat ramp drops off at the end...not a huge deal unless your not ready for it! LOL

My buddy and I ran up to Terrell this morning, hit the water at about 7am and headed along the shoreline past the public fishing dock throwing topwater baits. Didn't touch a fish until we got up around the corner and past the "island". Just past the island my buddy hooked about a 4lber on a black Buzz King Jr., but it self released at the boat! A few casts later and he had another one, about 3.5lbs, this prompted me to remove my frog and tie on a buzz bait!

We continued around the corner and headed down the west shoreline, to our left was the bank and all the reeds, to our right was a huge grassy mess that would have eaten my trolling motor so we had to go around it. I was casting towards the reeds and then out over the grass, we continued without a strike for about a hundred yards or so when I made a cast out towards a hole in the grass field....BOOM!!! I barely got two turns on the reel when this bass came clean out of the water grabbing my buzz bait on the way, I layed into him good and one second later SNAP...must have had a bad spot about 12' into my line and it broke. We motored over to see if we could find the line, and there it was laying on top of the grass, I picked it up and started pulling hoping by some miracle the bass would still be attached, but it wasn't to be...I did get my buzzer back however, so I guess that's good....even though the bass was an easy 6lbs:(

We tried numerous areas near the shoreline, but it kept bugging me that we hit fish near a spawning flat, which is right where they should be this time of year, so I decided we would head back to that area and try to get into some post spawn fry guarding bass. Once in the area, I began throwing a 3" black and chrome floating Rapala, I would twitch it a couple times always ending with slack line, but not letting it sit but for a second or two then twitch it again. The bait would dart erraticly down to the top of the grass and then float back up, on my second cast doing this I caught the 3.5lber in the pic. On cast number four I had a 5lber try to smash it jumping upside down out of the water right off the boat, but I missed it! At this time, my friend started throwing a minnow bait, and he nailed one about 4lbs! This continued for a while, we would just let the wind blow us and work the weeds in about 3-5' of water, then we would motor back and float through again, all totalled I think we boated 11 bass, the smallest was 2.5lbs and the biggest was 4.5lbs. We caught them on spinnerbaits, rapala's, and soft jerk baits. Water was in the low 70's, and we left about 2pm.

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