Jpull, Chick, LM Bass, 7/5/18, Solo

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Put in at Armstrong Rd / Soddy Creek this morning at 6:30. Had a pretty good top water bite on a whopper plopper in shallow water until around 8 . Nothing big but a couple of keepers. I don't care what size, top water blow-ups are just dang fun. Went looking for something a little bit deeper and pulled a few off of grass tops with a chartreuse spinner bait. Don't know about anywhere else, but it looked like there was a huge willow fly hatch last night north of soddy creek. Spent from 10:00 until take-out looking for willow fly "beards" hanging from trees near deep water. Scored with crawfish colored football jigs and T rigged pumpkin Senkos. A dozen or so keepers, nothing big - biggest was a little short of 3 but plenty of 1 - 2 lb. large mouths. Rec. boat traffic started getting heavy around 2:00 so I headed in.<br /><br />This is one of my favorite times to be on the lake. Got a little bored around noon and started tossing gulp minnows on .32 oz jig heads under "willow fly" trees and would catch a bream every cast. Also, I did see something I'd never seen before - A crow was sitting in the top of a cedar tree gorging on willow flies. <br /><br />Jim<br /><br />