John reported that the water level in the lake had come up about two feet since last weekend, and that the morning air temp was in the mid 50's. They started the day off fishing for bass by throwing a wide variety of baitfish patterns. They finally found some success on an grey and white clouser minnow, but mainly the bass were being pretty stingy. He thought that with the higher water levels, coinciding with the full moon, that the fish had moved back out into the deeper water. By the middle of the day, the air temp was in the 80's, and they decided to check out what the carp were doing. That turned out to be a bust, as most of them were starting to spawn, paying no attention to the fly what so ever. The moral of the story.......even though it feels like it's the middle of Summer here, the fishing at Lake Hodges was on the slow side for them. But Capt. John feels as if it is ready to break loose any day. Any chances are, he'll probably be there when it does.