I fished the east lake from daylight until noon, and had very minimal results. Caught 4 over 14" and one dink. Did catch one crappie on a Sexy Shad Rattletrap. Three of the bass hit plastic worms and one hit a frog. Went to West Lake, and had my chance at what could have been a PB or a DD. At 12:15, at the same place I caught the bass on the Rattletrap last week, I had a good, solid strike - again on the Sexy Shad trap that I had customized with bigger and stronger hooks. This was a big fish. Once I got it close, it circled the boat twice and then decided to go under it. I couldn't turn the fish. When I tried, it almost took the rod out of my hands. End result? Hung me in the coontail and got off. It took about an hour for the adrenaline to go away. I don't know what it is with big bass and noon, but I've caught more between noon and 12:30 p.m. than at any other time. At any rate, I ended up with a few dinks and 11 good ones on the west lake. Biggest two were just under 21" long, but thin in the body. One weighed right at 4 pounds. Successful lures were the Sexy Shad Rattletrap, green pumpkin/black flake and black/blue flake Senkos rigged on weedless (yeah, right) wacky hooks, black/red flake 7" Jaw Tec lizards, silver/black back #11 balsa Rapala, hollow body frog, and 4" T-rigged black worm. Water temp was 85° in both lakes. Mr. Birt has mowed the launch areas at both lakes, so launching is a bit easier now. I can't wait to fish those two lakes in early spring before the coontail gets so thick.