Sat. July 28^th Big Thunder Lake                                                                       I am 3^rd boat out this morning and I am fishing with Ron Oswald and we are pulling away from the dock and as he is putting on his inflatable life jacket it decides to go off, I could not stop laughing at/with him so luckily his son Steve had a spare with for him. We take off and head right for the under water hump with the point on it and I start throwing a Heddon zara spook jr. and walk the dog with it  looks so yummy coming a cross this hump and Ron is throwing a buzzbait all this to know avail so I switch to a rattle trap and catch a small keeper and then another small keeper we worked out to the tip of the point and I caught a 2lb bass we worked the tip pretty hard and did not catch any more so while working the other side Ron hooks into a decent smallmouth bass about 2-1/4lb’s and we can not pick up any more, Ron used to fish this lake along time ago and had some areas we could try so off we went to fish a weedline and after a short while I catch a largemouth another small 1lber than I saw a big smallmouth follow my Texas rigged tube

Back to the boat so I worked the area hard. It’s hot and no breeze and sunny I look up into the shallows and see a nice smallmouth just cruising the bank so for shits and giggles I throw my tube up there and the fish charges my lure and sucks it in I am amazed and almost forgot to set the hook about a 3lber and I continue to randomly pick up some smaller smallmouth’s, by know the bite has pretty much went away for us so we went to this reed point at the other end of the lake, I figured I could catch a fish or two on a deep diving crankbait and when we get there two of my buddies are sitting in there boats talking and having lunch so we say hi and go out to the deepest part of the point and I start cranking (man is it hot) I figured the other two were having a tough day and maybe my day was not so bad. The fish are not biting for us and it is time to start back to the ramp and fish there for a little bit hoping for some last minute help and of course that doe not work so we go in and load the boat I figured I had about 9 – 9-1/2lbs nothing too impressive but we’ll see. Well most of the people have weighed in and there are a couple of nice bags in the 12 pound range and a lot in the 9 – 11 lb range, I ended up with about 9lbs but my two biggest were both smallmouth and they both died so I got penalized for them and dropped to 12^th place out of 17 and A.J. had a small limit of largemouth and took 13^th, now my buddy that was having lunch and not fishing I found out he came in about an hour early and hid under some over hanging tree’s to get out of the beating sun well he just weighed in a 19.10 sack of largemouth’s he caught right away in the morning and crushed us all what a great win for him congrats’s to Guy Knudson.