Haven't been out for a month! Went out at 9 am on Sunday and by the looks of the frost everywhere I was glad I went later. I wanted to catch some fish on the jig but it didn't end up that way. Rumors were flying around about a guy catching 4 swimbait fish the Saturday before last from 4 to 7 pounds. I went straight out to the Main lake break off of Jackrabbit and metered some fish, dropped my bouys and proceded to fish the jig for about half an hour with no results.There seemed to be some good fish right under me so out came the Hopkins 3/4 chrome shorty. I caught a nice smallmouth about ten minutes later. A few minutes later I get the best fish of the day about a 4 lber. Now I'm feeling a bit better. One more largemouth around two and they quit on me. I ran into some guys who were fishing a fun tournament and they had been at it since they opened the gate and they had one fish on the jig but had missed a few. I used the jig all during the day for zero results. I threw the swimbait for hours with zero takers,so I went back to the spoon. I filled out a 9 pound limit and went back to the big fish stuff. It was a beautiful day on the water with out wind which killed the bite I think. It was that or they were full from Thursday's plant,but I couldn't get the big one's to eat. At 3:30 I anchored up and started to fish for trout while putting away tackle and cleaning up the boat and got a limit of fat rainbows on powerbait in an hour and a half behind Arrowhead Island. The Lake level has pretty much remained the same as in November maybe a foot lower if that. The water is about 51 degrees and looks to be clearing up in the narrows. I sure hope the March miracle comes in Feb. or it might get trickey this spawn. Kelly