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.