What an absolutely beautiful day it was, except first sign of trouble was graphing schools of Crappie high in the water column, my experience with that seems to be nothing but bad news. Second sign of trouble was the water was just boiling with a hatch of some sort of zoo-plankton life forms that I have never seen as bad as this anywhere. I have seen this at Leland before and other small lakes and stock ponds, I usually associate this with cows, can't prove that but seems to be two common denominators... At any rate the fish had a serious case of lock jaw, we fished from 9 to 1 and had a few half hearted taps, that was it, I have fished this lake for close to 25 years and it is the very first time I have been skunked there. I did note fewer hawgs hanging on the bottom, so I believe the Bass have awaken and are headed into the shallows, water temp was 53.8 degrees. There was a lot of boats on the lake and fishermen from the shore, the only fish I saw caught was a small trout. The highlight of the trip was finding a huge hairball that had to have been from a cougar and that turned on one of the girls with a biology major who photographed it and then dissected it. We discussed the hatch and came to an unscientific conclusion that the fish were full just from breathing these things in and the girls had nothing to do with the skunking. Klahowya!

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