Oct 03 2013
Phil Evans
Fry
Fished Yates on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning with a guest. I was concerned when Dewayne said the lake had risen 18 inches in the last two weeks, but we still caught fish. Day one had 10 under and one ~5 lbs on a buzzbait. Tuesday AM caught 7 under and an 8.4 on buzzbait less than 5 minutes into the fishing. The fish was so short I weighted it twice. What a toad!
All the great things about this property have already been said - the grounds, house, lake, and the hosts are all terrific. These next couple of months will be prime time! The amount of bait in this lake is unbelievable. I suspect that is why the reaction baits worked better than the slow plastics. I fished plastics most of the time but all the good bites came on the buzzbait. The under fish came on a shallow diving minnow fished by my guest. I had 2 bites on several different plastics over 2 days.