Trent,

I don't know if you have made your trip yet or not, but I've been out a few times, and had little luck on the LMs. Of course I was out right after the last cold front, so that may have had some bearing on it. Everyone I talked to that was LM fishing told me that they had very little luck.

Now I was trying something completely new to me, using a jig with a jig head. I had a ton of luck on smallies just inside forked bays, fishing the main fork point in the bay. I was also fishing the area you are talking about.

I actually wanted to fish the matted grass. I rigged up to fish the grass, and had to make the adjustment on the water. I don't know why I decided to fish the way I did, but I figured I had never fished that way before, and couldn't do any worse than I was doing for the LM.

Good luck,

Danny