I had a really slow day at Six-O today. First, in spite of an excellent map and directions, I took a wrong road in the dark and ended up driving a very narrow and rough road around part of the property's perimeter fence. I must have driven through at least a hundred huge cobwebs. It was a creepy drive in the dark. I ended up coming back to the owners home from behind. Once I finally found the lake and launched, I found the fishing to be very slow, to say the least. The "cabbage" (some kind of Pond Weed?) is thick and matted all the way around the lake (and on the old pond dam), but there was usually at least 10 feet of open water between the mat and the bank. Those weeds provided three bass on a Ribbit frog, although I missed three big blow-ups. We all know that a big blow-up does not necessarily mean a big bass, but at least two of those fish were big. The only ones I managed to hook and boat weighed 2-10, 1-04, and 1-04, but fought much harder than I would expect from bass that size. I did pick up another 1-04  and a big bluegill under the boat house - both on a 4", Texas-rigged black worm. I did lose one bigger bass on a black/blue fleck 5" Senko, wacky-rigged and weightless. I harvested 3 just under 14" plus one 6" dink and the bluegill. I had no luck on hard topwaters, buzz baits, Rattlettraps, diving crankbaits, Rapalas, C-rigged worms, or creature baits.

The water was as clear as spring water, and the water temp varied from 85.2 to 87.2. Although they fought really hard for their size, the bass were not at all chunky, and a couple of them looked very thin to me. I saw a lot of (native) bluegill and a few small bass in the shallows, and more jackrabbits than I've ever seen anywhere, both before and after daylight. Around noon, I did see 4-5 bass leaping out of the water trying to catch dragonflies, but that was about the only activity by then.

Posted By: Tom Dillon