So there I was...

First I tied on a jitterbug, nothing, I tried two or three others with the same result. Then I tried some poppers the Bass looked interested but I couldn't get them to strike, I switched to Buzz-baits and then soft baits nothing sparked their interest. Nearly consigned to another day of bad fishing I saw in the very bottom of my box a "Hula-Popper" in a leopard frog pattern that is so old the skirt has all but fallen away from dry rot, the paint is scarred and chipped to the point of being nearly unrecognizable. Still I had nothing to loose so I tied it on, tossed it over to where a few Bass were lurking waited for the water to settle, then gave it a gentle pull with my rod tip, let the water settle again and once more gave a soft pull with the tip, it was at this point that all hell broke loose as the water erupted in a volcanic fury, for a full ten minutes I fought, but the drag on my reel just kept pulling, I tightened it a bit and kept fighting, finally I got it close enough to lip a nice two and a half pounder on six pound test line. As a side note IIRC I purchased that hula-popper sometime between 1970 and 1975. It just goes to show that sometimes you just have to go with the old stuff. The rest of the morning was spent catching perch with night crawlers although I did land a couple of 12" Bass and an 8" Bass on the 'crawlers as well.