Me and a buddy went up to Fourth of July both yesterday and today. It didn't seem like anyone was doing any good, but we defied the odds.
Yesterday we got on the lake about 10:30 and in about five minutes my buddy iced a 20 inch bow. We had constants hookups but we lost quite a few. We ended the day with six fish kept. The trick was maggots and jigs.
Today was a little more productive. We both had limits of fish under 14" in about two hours. At about noon, it slowed wayyy down. We thought the fish might be done for the day, when my buddy hooked into a horse. He played it for almost five minutes before I was able to pull it out of the hole. It went 24" and weighed easily four pounds. We ended up catching one more before we left, and everyone we talked to on the way out either hadn't done any good at all, or had only caught one or two. Overall it was a great weekend. We caught plenty of fish, and we had bites every 10-15 minutes.