Only got to spend a couple hours Friday. Waited till mid-morning to start due to the chill and the fog and had to be back in and at the house by 4 for a family get together. So likely missed some of the afternoon activity as things warmed up.

Hadn't been in a few weeks, so tried to follow the pattern from Oct/Nov for shad feeding bass. Bite was extremely slow. Spoke with several other anglers, some chunkin plastics, others chasing the fall shad feeding pattern, all the same response, "slow".

Water temps started at 48 a 10am with broken clouds. By 2:30 surface temps had climbed up to 54 in shallower areas and 52 in the channel, the sky had cleared and there was a pretty steady North wind. Water was very murky, as expected on the upper end after last weeks rains. Lake levels are still very low, ~4-1/2 feet. They have come up a couple inches back to the October levels. Surprised that all the fish were found in less than 4 feet of water. I really expected to find a few right along the transitions of the creek channel, but not a thing there.

All our fish were boated on chatter baits. I had 1 on white chatter bait, everything else on blue. Partner didn't have any and threw everything under the sun. I finally talked him into tossing one of my watermelon seed chatter baits, and he got some action. I tossed spinners and traps as well, not even a bump on them.