Decided to head out to puddingstone lake yesterday after i got off work. Arrived at the lake with a buddy of mine at 2:45pm, fished from the farthest pier all the way down to the swim beach where there's a little small cove back there with some stick ups. Hooked up on a small one by the big pier, shortly lost it. My buddy caught his first largemouth next to the big pier around 4:50pm it was tiny just a little bigger than 5". Saw some small fish hitting the surface all day they were really small didn't know what they were. Then there was a big swell on the surface looked like a big bass so i assume those small fish are shad. Around 5:45pm we decided to head over to sail cove and try the docks over there. Glad we did got there and started to cast around the docks, there was a guy next to me fishing, said he was fishing there for a couple hours and said he didn't catch anything all day. Then he proceeded to move to the opposite side of the dock. I then moved over a couple feet to give myself some more room in between the docks. Casted right where the dock spilts and it got wrapped around the fence and since i was split shotting it unwrapped itself and dropped right next to the piller. I reeled in my slack and all of a sudden it was tight and moving to the right. Set the hook and she ran to the end of the docks and jumped out twice attempting to shake the hook. 5 minute battle resulted in my 2nd puddingstone bass. Which turned out to be a beautiful 5 pound female. Shortyly after i hooked up on another but it was only a pound or so. After that nothing so we left all in all it was a good day. All day we mainly splitshotted plastics 3" to 6" worms.
For some reason its not letting me post the pictures if anybody can help id appreciate it but for now ill try what i can.