Fished 8/15, hit the water at 6:40am with 76 degree temps (felt amazing) and very little wind.  Started counter clockwise from the ramp and caught a nice 2.5 lber on my third cast with the 6^th Sense catwalk from the first cove.  Had two fish come completely out of the water and miss my lure in the cove in the NW corner.  After that, not a bite for 1.5 hours even though there were plenty of jumpers around the lake.  Around 9:15am the wind started kicking up to 10-15mph so I achored off the weedline in the SE corner with the wind to my back.  I started seeing a mass of shad flying out of the water and explosions everywhere from bass, so I bombed a good 35-40 yard cast past them and boom, 2lber on the catwalk.  Unhooked that one and they were still feasting, so I casted again, two completely missed coming out of the water, but the third fish nailed it, a 3lber.  The shad made their getaway for a few minutes but reapeared to my fight about 20 yards.  I could then see just how many bass were in this school, I am guessing 50-75 but could’ve been more.  Same drill this time around, cast past them, walk it very aggressively and they would massacre it.   At one point i could see 5-6 fish chasing my walking bait.  So for the next hour i would chase the bait ball, catch a few, it would disappear and then i’d try a few other things to bide the time (mini-A-rig, T-Rig, shakey head, drop shot, deep diving crank).  Zero success on anything else during this time.  Around 10:30am the action stopped, so I went to the east side and anchored down.  I don’t have electronics so used jthe maps from the website to discern where a couple good humps and points would be.  Caught 4 on the shakeyhead from there, all around 1.5-2lbs.  Fished in a few more spots with no bites and was about to head in around 1pm when I saw the school reappear.  Chased it again for 30 minutes and landed 4 fish, all of which were 3+lbs.  It died down again, so off the water by 2pm.

Total fish caught was 18 with 14 being solely on topwater and mostly from chasing that school.  It was a blast and reminded me of when I lived in hawaii chasing schools of small tuna.  All of the fish caught in the school were at least 2lbs, with most pushing 3+.  Didn’t find much of a pattern outside that fishing deep and didn’t have a hit on anything else besides a shakey head.

Always a fun lake that I am starting to feel more comfortable fishing!  Didn’t see Joe this time around, but big thanks to him as always.