Well I drove down to Rough this morning (10-21-05) in rain and fog, burning a vacation day before I loose it. While waiting to drop my heap (boat) into the the lake I had the opportunity to pass words with one of the local coservation officers, and he told me that they have just upgraded the raiting of the lake from good to excelent for bass. I jujst recently started fishing the lake on a regular bass, and I have to say I can see why they are of that opinion. Although that elusive monster bass I've been looking for evaded me once again, I did manage to tap a few of his cousins through out the day.
I started off arround 10:00 am slow rolling a quad-shad but nothing materialized and soon started throwing a wattermellon-seed lizzard to shallow cover. This soon paid off when I manged to land a quality fish off one of the still floating private docks in 3-4 feet of watter. That was followed up by a smaller fish moments later in some adjacent shallow rocky cover. This proved to be the pattern for the rest of the day.
Around 1 o’clock packed up am moved on around to the western end of the North Fork to the mouth of George Branch and caught a few decent fish off of a long shallow point that sloped into some deep water. Several times while fishing this spot I saw several large hybrids jumping of the southern side of this point that helped form a huge bay. Although they did peek my curiosity I stayed focused on my task.
With the conditions deteriorating as the day wore on the fishing remained consistent. By the time I loaded the boat there was a steady rain and a stiff wind.
Hoped I provided any one fishing the lake this weekend some help on where to locate the fish and what they might be after. Remember to throw em back... That is unless you come across that elusive monster bass.

Keep on chuckn'