After checking out a possible access to Old River Lake that just didn't pan out, I met LRJoe out at a nearby river lake close to the L&D. Made it out there to see him out there in the middle of the lake. Cruised on out there and he said, "Hey, I sent you a message tellin' ya about all the stumps just under the surface". Hah, he wasn't kidding...Don't know how I dodged 'em coming across there. That lake ended up not panning out as well. Couldn't find any deep water and didn't see any fish on the graphs.

So on our way out we met a gentleman that told us to go try Willow Beach. After he disproved a couple rumors about recent vandalism activity, we decided to try it. By that time, LRJoe only had an hour or so to fish. We caught quite a few dinks, and he had to go. As soon as he left, the wind came with a fury. Ended up catchin' a lot more dinks (and when I say dink, I mean like 3.5") about 14-15' deep on the bottom. Caught a couple good keepers about 1' off the bottom, and then caught one that I weighed at 1lb 15oz suspended about 6' deep over the deeper water. Couldn't find anymore big fish at that depth. Ended up lettin' them couple crappie live to swim another day. I left at about 2:15 with a nice new sunburn and an un-vandalized truck.