Reservation Number : 25521
Property Name : Bennett Lake
Reservation Date : 08/12/2020 AM -
Total Fish/Sizes : 19
Lures Used : plastics, chatterbait, topwater,

Fellow member John Shepard and I ran up to Bennett yesterday morning hoping to catch a good topwater morning bite. We arrived at 6:20 am and first observation was the water level was down about a foot from my previous trip back in May and the vegetation mats were more prominent than before. John did pretty good with a popR catching 7 in about an hour on the shallow end around the matted vegetation but i could not get bit on anything i tried. We moved from the shallow end towards the big point across from the boat ramp throwing top water, weightless plastics and spinnerbaits but no takers. The dam produced a few on shakey head and drop shot. We moved around to other spots that we had caught fish on previous trips this time the year but it was hard to catch more than couple on one spot before moving on to the next. We were thinking they might start schooling like they did this time last year but it never happened. We left at noon with the thought we just have to accept that they were shelter in place and not hungry. We ended the day with 19 total culling 3, biggest was a real skinny 4.9 lber. Another observation was there was no chasing of bait that we normally see in the middle of the lake and even the dragon flys hovering over the vegetation around the edges was minimal, very unusual. John commented that the water was clearer than his bathwater, I said he should consider a shower instead.