Hit the water about 10 am.Started out slow.Made the first pass around the lake without a bump.I had started out with a cultiva mira shad.Then I saw a few fish sippin bugs off the surface,so on goes my floating Daiwa Dr Minnow and so the fun begins.I started off picking up one or two here and there.I tossed them back at first.I then found one spot in the lake that was just amazing.my fishfinder showed some heavier weed cover,the fish alarm would start beeping like mad and bam fish on over,and over,and over.most of them in this particular spot were the jumbo fish that they stocked recently.I figured I'd take a limit of these 13-14 inch fish for the smoker.I had 3 on the stringer at the time when my rod goes down real hard pumping and screaming out line.I had hooked into a very hard fighting broodstock rainbow that amazingly looked rather bright.Of course I brought the wrong net which I can't get half of him into so I slip a finger under his gill and pitch him into the boat.Probably the longest I have ever battled one of these things,but then again on a 6 ft light action rod.

Rolled in at about 9:30, I'd never seen Matoon with so many people. Fished from shore for about 3 hours, had a follow on a Texas rigged vibra grub, and had a small trout buck off of the same set-up but smaller sized grub.

A lot of people fishing for trout, didn't see many caught though.

The fishing for bass is slowing down, they are becoming lethargic. only caught a few monster 5 inchers. The trout however has picked up, and they've grown! My dad caught 2 fish using powereggs. One was 12", and the other were 12.5". It suprised me how healthy they looked.

Best day bass fishing of the year, caught a few on small curltail grubs in the beginning, Then changed to a floating rapala- that was the ticket. Caught alot of bass. Nothing huge but caught fish consistently, with 5 over 8". The funniest thing was when I goofed up casting and the lure went out only a few feet in front of me, and a solid 10.5" bass hit it, which suprised me. A fun great day. Sorry that the pic is black and white, I don't know why.

Caught about 10 bass today. All babys except for one small 8 incher. Used a plastic curltail grub, yelllow and white worked the best (The water clarity is down a bit, hard to see any other colors." Caught a baby on a gold mepps. My dad and sister each caught a trout fishing off the bottom with powereggs, the trout were around 12". Almost lost a fish to a muskrat, so if you use a stringer beware.