I arrived at Ken Lake at first light. The wind was blowing about 20mph and water was dingy. I put in my boat and started fishing. I'll say this right now. It was biting cold out that morning. All my compartments were frozen shut. I fished around the mouth of the creek for a while and caught a 15 pound drum. I decided to make a move and when I went to pull up the trolling motor it was frozen and would not budge. So I idled back to ramp and docked the boat for an hour or so to see if the sun which was just emerging might thaw it out. It did. I got back out for a while and nothing.
I had a leisurely breakfast on Friday and got back on the water after 10:00. It was dead calm out. I had to scrape ice off my vehicle first. At least the air temp was warmer than the day before. I put in and started fishing. I caught a 10" shad on second cast. Then a little later I caught a 10 pound drum. As I fished my way across the mouth of the creek I caught two nice crappie...and two more drum. I went to another area for a while but the wind was picking up all of a sudden and with my little boat I didn't want to wait to see if it died down so I went back to Ledbetter Creek. About 30 minutes later the wind died down. Go figure. Finally, during my last hour of fishing I caught three bass. Each of them went a little over two pounds. All of my fish came on a rattlebait. I was fishing it deep and slow. I tried a few other baits but nothing else worked. So I decided to just stick with what was getting bit.