Photo: Darrly Stephenson

05/20/2010 A bright sunny sky blue bird day with 65 degrees air temps and light SE wind when we pushed off from the dock. We started the trip today running to the area that we had our topwater action yesterday but to our misfortune today was another day, and the area went from clear smooth water to a light chop with very dirty water. Knowing that spring often has multiple personalities consisting of dirty/silty patches of water while 200yrds away it can be gin clear, we made the skiff ride to get ourselves in position to sight fish some gin. We rolled in to a beautiful flat that offered water so clear it was as if the boat was floating on air. We silently poled into the area hoping to see laid up bass and that's just what we found. There they were facing into the current 10" of water waiting for our plug to go by. Our 1st cast delivered a swipe, and a miss, a couple casts later we had a nice 29" Bass crash our plug and he was off to the races as he took off headed off the flat for deeper water but as he headed out he made a run right at us, then under the bow, and as soon as he did that he broke us off. We regained composure, got back into position and 5 minutes later we had two bass crash our offering a 30" & a 22" hooking up with the smaller of the 2, a few minutes later we had him posing for a photo. Having cleared the flat with the action we ran to another clear water flat to do it all over again and it didn't take long until we were back in Bass and Blues, picking up 6 Blues in the 5 lb class, 1 more Bass, missing 3 others and breaking off another nice 30" bruiser. The winds picked up from the SW which put the brakes on the action for the remainder of the trip.