Since Falcon has filled Guiding for bass has gotten a little bit harder than it used to be. I have finally found several places where I know I can catch a decent bag of fish. Several weeks ago I found myself racking my brain trying to decide where to start fishing for the next days guide trip. But today I feel better. After several successful trips this week I am confident that I can go out and catch a decent stringer of 5 fish. I had 4 trips this past week and each one wound up with 24 to 30 lb. bags on our best 5 bass. Numbers ranged from (12 fish with 30+mph winds) to 29 fish per day. With that said fishing is still tough. When I leave my good spots looking for new ones sometimes I don’t even get a bite. It seems it is getting better though and I am catching lots of females that look like they can’t wait much longer to spawn. My thinking is the major spawn will start up river after the full moon on the 10th of Jan. That is if cold weather will hold off and not prolong the cold water temps. I had a good day up river with high winds and fish shallow and deep in 4′ to 22′ on soft plastics with extremely high winds. Water temps on the main lake are high 50’s in the morning and by afternoon they are in the low to mid 60’s. Presently fish are on flooded trees and rocks on points and creek channels. 12′ to 25′ seems to work for me using soft plastics in watermelon red and slow rolling a  “1 oz. Green Shad spinnerbait. more to come………