What? You have never been playing with a pesky fish at boat side and had him slingshot the jig back up your own nose?! Really am I the only one? Hmmm?

At Lake Arrowhead I tied an plastic milk jug off my Pier, filled with cracked corn, punched full of holes. To draw bait fish and big fish too. One Winters day, the jug was floating under the ice, tied with a 250lb trotline string, It was chilly, but Sunny and something swam up to the milk jug, swallowed it and tank!! Took off with in its mouth. Catfish? I don't know.

I'm sitting on my private dock, Crappie fishing big slabs, I see two 80+ year olds men in the biggest Poontoon deck boat I've ever seen, driving way too fast into my shallow in a hurry dead end cove. They must be on their maiden voyage, not used to what's what yet? Instead of slowing down they sped up, were yelling I can't stop, I can't stop!!! I held back you hit my Pier and wreck it, $125,000 & labor, they just clipped my dock, but cracked a few, main support timber's and drove the boat completely into my beach or bank filled with cattails, potato Vines and big sand buried sand rocks. After the country cop's first responders and wardens arrived and saw what they done. It was more laughing than fussing from them for sure. The two old men were fined for failing to remain in control of a water vessel and causing property damage's to structure rights in the water. They agreed to settle with me for my boat dock's repair for $7,000, but I don't trust handshake agreements anymore and got it court ordered by a Magistrate in town. Tore their brand new boat to pieces and a week to get off my property. It just wasn't their day or mine 🤣

So I finally got to the pond today. Honestly only about 15 minutes cause that's all the time I had today. My observation was this, the water is very dark, muddy. I could not see my bait deeper than 5-6 inches. I tried a green chatter bait, a white and green twister tail, and a small spinner with a pink and white skirt. Fred is right, the fish gotta eat. I was hoping the white is a good choice for muddy water. Again, 15 minutes is nothing but leads me to ask for advice on how to fish the shallow, dirty ponds here. Fish need night vision goggles to see the bait.