Just goes to show once again that you don't have to have trout in a lake to get them to hit a trout plug.

I meant to say also that the lake does have threadfin shad in it. We saw some tiny dead ones on the surface and flitting around on top in a couple places. Mark got a 6lber that barfed up a huge one too. I think the key to finding the creek channel fish was to have a big ball of shad in the area. The bass have 9 million trees to choose from in that lake, so they can be really picky about where they set up in that stuff.

I tried to figure out if they had crawdads in there. I showed the guide a mad-man and asked him if they were in the lake. He said "camarones" which is shrimp, but he said yes they were in there and when I went to take that trailer off, he wanted me to leave it on. So I guess that's a maybe on the crawdads. The fish certainly didn't show any indication of being on craws. They seemed to be mostly on bait, with sharp teeth and white mouths.