Fished Timber Lake today with a great plan for topwater lures at sun up around the south bank vegetation, then a shift to the green chatterbait at the mouth of the east finger, followed by spinners and deep water crank baits off the point. However, like sandlot games when we were kids, strategy and game planning had little effect. Today, just pick a worm, throw it long and let it sink deep, then do a classic lift and let it drop till they hit, in each case today on the fall. 

I launched at 6:25 just after sunrise on a beautiful, partly cloudy day with the wind 5-10 from the south. Water was 86 degrees, visibility about 3 feet and the vegetation robust. I set up at various points along the southern bank and hit it hard with buzz baits, HBF and poppers. Not a single strike, no matter the color or retrieve. I went up the east bank with the same plan and, fitting the definition of insanity, expected a different result. None was forthcoming.

When I reached the east finger, I went to 7" green senko and to a 12" ribbon tail green pumpkin worm. Over the next hour four bass, 2-4 pounds, hit on the worms. Crank baits, deep diving, square bill and lipless, spinner baits and chatterbaits were not productive at all. 

Off the point between the "fingers" there was narry a strike and I missed two on worms in the western finger. 

Deep diving crank bait in the central lake body were not productive.

All in all, a beautiful day on a magnificat PWF property with one cull and 5 fish returned to catch another day.