Decided to brave the holiday warriors this morning. surface temp 73-76F. logs everywhere on lower end.

Got a late start and didnt get to dam area until a little after 7am to fish for hybrids. Only boat there, not a good sign

Never saw a school of shad the entire day. But did see some surface activity chasing minnows/fry. Both bass and whites/hybrids. Just enough to keep me there thinking I would have some luck as they were in the area. No such luck. zippo.

Decided to run and fish some banks that I Have caught Hybrids off of before. No Hybrids but did catch a couple of 4" mini black bass dinks, a big as@ bluegill(manged to get all three treble hooks in mouth somehow), a sunfish, a 3+ lb bass and lost a 4lb bass(note to self - the net in the boat is there for a reason) off the side of the boat all on kastmaster fairly deep.

Finally gave up on hybrids, and switched to scatter rap and plastics and caught 5 bass and lost 3(struggled with the scatter rap). Did catch one more nice bass though on plastic.