Went to bed last night and turned on my alarm clock (It's always set for 5:00 A.M.). As I was laying there waiting to fall to sleep I thought "this is stupid" I get up at 5:00 every morning and I've been working almost 60 hrs a week for the last two months. Fish or no fish I'm getting some sleep. So I turn my alarm off hoping to sleep in. I wake up at 5:15   and force myself back to sleep. Let me tell you that extra couple hours of sleep was magical. I took my time, drank a couple cups of coffee then slowly made my way to the lake. I got there somewhere around 8:30 or 9:00. I'm telling ya total mosey mode for this kid today. 

 The water by the launch was nice and clear but once I made my way to the main body of the lake it turned to chocolate milk. I half-heartedly tried a swim jig then a few soft plastics with no luck then I decided to knuckle down and catch some fish. I tossed a Jitter Bug along a sunny bank in a couple coves that usually produce for me but no luck there. I got out of that area and switched up to a lipless crankbait and got a solid strike on that so I fished it alone a long flat that leads to a large "funnel" where I have picked up several nice fish over the last two years but no more luck on the lipless. I was starting to get disappointed/frustrated so one last effort before calling it and moving to a different body of water altogether.

 I tied on a bladed jig with a small wedge tail trailer and within a couple minutes BOOM! FISH ON! 

 

 The best fish of the day and my first fish over 5# this year. According to my scale she was 5.36#.

 I was making my way back towards the launch and picked up these three. I didn't put them on the scale so I don't know how big they were but the first of the three I'm guessing was somewhere around 3-3.5#.

 

 

This fish absolutely hammered the bait! Two cast after the 3#er!

 

 

I beat around for about another hour and a half with no luck then picked up one last fish for the day.

 

 

So that's it boys and girls a pretty good day in God's Country.

Tight Lines

H

Nice job!

Nice! What part of the country are you in?

Thanks.

Not far from Mobile, Al...

nice kayak bass!

Memo to self. Bladed jigs work in cold water . Thanks for letting me know .

Roger that on the bladed jigs.