The first flat we worked over produced a few smallish LM, but not the quality fish we sought so we were off in search of Mr Big. It was a long search. The wind was playing havoc with our attempts to manouever through the stump fields and weed flats, but Fox proved he was equally adept with the trolling motor as he was with a flippin stick and kept us from running aground. Once the wind died down enough that we could spend more time fishing than worrying about bumping stumps the action started. Firefox put on a flipping jig clinic nailing several 13-14". Finally I got my first bucket of the day on a buzzbait:
Then the big boys came out to play...first it was FireFox again landing this hefty brute:
.Now you may have noticed that Saskette has been absent from the story. She had picked up a few fish but not the numbers and certainly not the size we were after. The reason - the last of her magical raspberry-red senkos was gone. The replacements so generously provided by Slushpuppy the previous night lacked the magic and were utterly ignored, even by Rock Bass. It was truly sad to she her flip jigs, spinnerbaits, wacky/tex rigged worms like we mere mortals.
Then, just when all seemed lost she spied it: in some far forgotten corner of the boat, carelessly discarded weeks ago after being declared too worn out - a rasberry-red senko. True it was tattered and scarred from many a battle, but there it was. With trembling hands she found a piece of plastic sturdy enough to hold a hook, and gingerly cast it toward some lilly pads....we all held our breath. And then.......................................
nothing
But on the next cast - this beauty:
The end
WTG folks!!! 
I, too, have been guilty of putting on a crappy, tattered preferred plastic over a brand new one when I had a hunch. 
