Well I made it out on Demontreville around 3:30 this morning. As of last Saturday there weren’t many weeds present but they sure exploded during the week. I stopped about 50 yards short of my first spot intending to creep into position with the trolling motor. As soon as I shut down the outboard the boat stopped due to the thickness of the weeds. Yumpin’ Yiminy! It made it pretty interesting trying to find some fishable water at that time of day. It was blacker than the inside of a cow out there. As it got closer to daylight, I started seeing the dreaded orange signs along the shore. Yup, some genius decided it would be a good idea to poison the lake weeds the DAY BRFORE BASS OPENER 
What kind of an idiot….oh well, I guess all we can do is deal with it as it is.
This was one of those days where I actually saw more fish than I caught, including some Bass in the 20 inch class. They’re still sitting on beds here and there. And they won’t hit anything. I had one fish “follow” three casts in a row just like a Muskie. It’s fun to watch but not as much fun as getting hooks. I did find a few fish that were willing to hit a Bass Bug thus avoiding the skunk. It sure felt good to stretch out a flyline, and it was great fun watching a Bass come out of the water with one of my Bugs in his mouth.
And hey it was cold out there. When does summer start?
Rootski
) Around 9 or so the bass really started to show up in the shallows. As the day progress more and more fish showed up and were just cruising the shallow weed edges. We thought that if the sunfish and other baitfish are all in the shallows and when the sunfish are spawning, the bass should be pretty close by. So for the rest of the day we threw basically three baits, but in general two the lures resulted in the most of fish. We threw small cranks when there was a more pronounced drop in the depth and a break in the weeds, and senkos and finesse worms the rest of the time. The key for the day was to cast on the weed break, in about 2.5-4 feet of water, and slowly bring in the bait. The fish would just come out of the weeds or hit it as the cruise the break line looking for sunfish. Once we figured out this pattern we worked a stretch of shoreline that kept giving us quality fish and allowed us to cull multiple times. We also had a couple of nice bass come unbutton that would of help us but that fishing. 
