I also went on my trip Monday through Friday, and you are dead on........weird trip. I go for the power fishing and buzzing the flowers and was disappointed yet again with no flowers. What was funny is I found a few flower patches in two cuts and caught three buzz fish off them.lol. My best day was tuesday with estimated20- 21 lbs. But didn't touch that again. My partner had two near 5 and a for sure 6 on a buzz in a flooded field. My dad found a different flooded field behind the bushes and wore them out Tuesday to thursday morning. Multiple 3-4 lb fish on buzz bait in a foot and half water. They were catching 15-18 keepers a day with most being back there. We power fished all trip in the backs and sides of bays. I have no idea where the bucks were. We caught more keepers than short fish it seemed. The day of the 20-21 lb bag, we only caught 11 fish and 10 were keepers. All caught in bushes and as far back as we could get the boat. I too can't wait til next year and I will pray hard that there will be flowers next year!!!!!!