I spent the day on Lake Buchanan right behind the front that just came through. The bite was slow early, but as the day warmed up, the fish warmed up with it.
A slow start behind the front
I started on main-lake points and picked up a few off the rocks in 5 to 14 feet of water on each one. After about an hour I slid into a small cove and fished the whole thing, flipping trees and docks and working a topwater. That only produced a couple of fish and one missed blowup on the topwater.
So I went to some of my better water -- big rock piles. On the first one I caught several right away, but I also watched a lot more bass rush my bait and just knock it without eating it. Weird. After seeing that a few times, it was clear they wanted the bait moving. I started letting my craw worm hit bottom and then swimming it back, and that turned the bite on. I caught over a dozen there before that spot dried up.
Swimming the craw worm off the rock piles
Once they wanted it moving, they ate it
I had some better rock piles across the lake, so I made the run. A stretch with four big rock piles was loaded, and I slammed them on every one. That stretch out-produced everything else, and I wrapped up the day there with around 32 bass.
The four-rock-pile stretch was loaded
Wrapping up a 32-bass scouting day
Not bad for a day that was mostly scouting for trips to come. Lake Buchanan is setting up nicely for the rest of the fall.