My son, Scott and I fished Twin Lakes from 7-12 on Mar. 4.  Bluebird skies, temps had dipped into the mid 30's the night before and at our launch the lake was absolutely glassed over with a mist rising as the sun rose over the horizon.   The geese were honking on the West lake and the ducks and egrets were working the East lake.  Water was stained and clear 59-60 degrees, but the water level was FLOODED.  This was our 3rd trip to Twin Lakes and neither of us had ever seen the water level this high.  After a super e-z launch, we immediately went to Buzz baits and lizards in the newly flooded timber and brush. 

Having fished the low water at Bennett in the wind, the day before, these were great fishing conditions.  We actually thought that there was so much new water that perhaps the fish had moved up and into areas which were inaccessible.  Scott caught a nice 2.5# chunk on about his 3rd flip into the brush.  I'm still running the buzz and nothing is churning.  An hour later and we've moved to spinner baits where I pick up a 2-3# male out 10-15' from the bank.  No real pattern develops so we keep searching, then the West wind, which helped so much the day before, begins to pick up to a constant 8-10 mph.  We keep throwing spinners with no luck.  that which worked so well at Bennett the day before produces nothing.  Then Scott get his second chunk, about 3 pounds on a Carolina rig.  I switch to shallow cranks, then Swimmin Image, then deep crank and finally hook up with 2 nice fish in the 3# range.  By 11:00 we have thrown an array of colors and shapes throughout the water column and come to the conclusion that we are just running baits in front of fish that have no interest.  All together we boated only 6 very healthy fish, but resolved to return to this under rated pond.

We learned the lesson that although Bennett and Twin Lakes are just 2 hours apart, they are worlds apart in water, habitat and fishing.