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Aah, the bliss of getting to fish alone. Tried one other person, but he was already booked. I looked at the solunar tables and saw that the best feeding period was from 12:54 til nearly 4:00 pm, so I waited until almost 12:00 to go out. First stop was at the flats where the bass have been schooling up and looked around quite a while without seeing very many fish of any kind. I finally ran over a small baitfish school with a few isolated fish around them and threw a marker as a reference. I fished for almost an hour and caught 10-12 yellow bass and 1 catfish around 4.0 lbs. I decided that I had better get to crappie fishing if I was going to get into the feed.<br /><br />Went to docks and caught fish on every dock. Not many on any one particular dock. I had to move around to get a limit of crappie. But every fish that I caught today was over 11" long. No throwbacks at all today. When I thought that I had just about a limit (wasn't using my clicker), I counted them and found that I had 13 crappie between 11.25 and 13.0. So, I stopped on a certain bluff to see if I could catch my last two fish. <br /><br />First cast there, nice 12" crappie. Second cast, a nice spotted bass that quick released at the boat. Third cast, my 15th keeper crappie. I made a couple more casts and had another little spotted bass jump off at the boat. It is good to see the crappie beginning to show up on this bluff. It can be hot at times. Most of the fish were at least 12 to 15 seconds deep, but were pretty aggressive on the bite. I did hook up another fish (felt like a catfish) under a dock and it wrapped around a post. I gave it slack and it seemed to swim out, but when I put the pressure back to it, it took off back around the post and hung me up. I had to break that one off. Slime ball, I'm sure.<br /><br />Most of the fish came on a 1.5" salt/pepper stubby butt with tail light. But did catch a few on a BG 2" shad in the Bayou Booger color. All on 1/32 oz jigheads. Light variable wind and just a beautiful day to be out. It was hot while I was sitting out in the sun though. I only took one group pic. I thought that I took a pic of the catfish, but I didn't. emoBig emoGeezer