Skunked, but high hopes

[MallenManson]

Put my little boat in Little Platte Lake last night. Motored over to the deepest part of the lake, which is only 8'.
Didn't have an anchor and the breeze was having it's way with my boat. Set myself up in some fairly heavy lily pads and started castin a Spro Jr. Ended up with 1 strike, but apparently the guilty culprit wasn't too serious about the whole thing.

When I got near the end of the pads, I saw something big in the water. Was starting to think it was a log until I noticed another a few feet in front of him, and they started movin. Unfortunately, they were swimmin away
This morning I pulled out the lake map guide and the only fish they mention for that lake are bass, gills and crappies, so it's holdin some biguns for sure.

Decided to head for a cove that I'd never been to (3rd time on the lake and the 2nd time was long enough to realize my battery was bad, so I don't know the lake at all).

On the way there I threw out a Clackin Rap. Once I had it almost to the boat I realized 4 or 5 bass were really swarming around it, but then they realized they were near a boat and split. those ones went probably 12-18".

So, skunked, but with high hopes!