Been tough fishing til today as had lots of rain the past few weeks, water was several feet above normal, and high temps were about 15-20 degrees below normal (mid 50's to low 60's rather than mid to upper 70's).

Fished last weekend and this Friday with only one little bass each day (Friday fish was same size as the little rebel minnow!) keeping me from being skunked.

Didn't go yesterday, but after mowing today went out late this afternoon for about 3 hours. Temp was mid 70's, south wind, lots of sun, and falling baro pressure. I went to a different spot than usual and got to fish some areas that used to not have much water in it before the water level got as high as it is.

Tried some rebel minnows and flukes around the north side before moving to the south side of the area and casting back quite a distance (had a good south wind behind me now) toward the edge of the weeds at the north end of the area.

I t-rigged with a light weight a brown WalMart worm (don't remember the brand but they float and come in brown, yellow, orange, and pink in a package of 40 or so for around $8, best floating worms I have found and are cheap) and cast it out. I wanted to get right into the V of the weeds and bushes where the water seemed to be funneling.

My first cast was headed to the right of the V right into the weeds and I was thinking I would recast when it landed and get it more into the V. Wrong! As soon as the worm hit the water against the weeds a bass sucked it in. After he took some line and I played him in against the tide and distance he turned out to be three pounds. Not a monster, but definitely an improvement over the past couple of weeks.

Tried worms some more but nothing else so watched to see if there were any shad moving. Saw some small ones flipping in the water so switched back to a Rapala floating minnow and caught a 1.5 pound and a 1 pound bass on it before the setting sun ended my day.

Kind of nice to have weeds and structure to fish around for a change since that usually isn't the case without the high water we have now. I had gotten used to going to the same place every time, so a change of scenery and fish biting did me good!  

It's amazing how much you perk up when you catch a few decent fish.