I finally found some fish willing to eat a rattle trap. Since I am more of a slow soft plastics man, the thought of throwing something and reeling it back at mach 1 just never made sense to me, but today I had one with me and just tied it on. After throwing it 3 or 4 times I felt it tick off of a stick or stump and BAM, the biggest one crushed it. Even as fast as I was reeling it still managed to almost swallow it. So I kept throwing it and every time it would tick off something, another one would hit it. It just amazes me how they can react that fast to something flying by their heads.

Unfortunately there was also a shrinking trend with the fish

nice fish

Good job man! Those fish are white!

Yea the lake is about as clear as chocolate milk, so it seems like the fish dont really need too much pigment

            Nice fish. What kind of set up is that?  Thats a Summit reel, but what kind of rod?  A All Star of some kind?

The ASR Series 6'9" M. Its my topwater/crankbait and I guess now lipless crankbait rod.