You may not hit one out at Natchez State Park, but the lake there is loaded with singles, doubles and triples.
If you think your 13-year-old daughter is temperamental and mercurial, you haven’t ever spent much time with a Florida-strain largemouth bass.
Just like that silver-smiling adolescent, a Florida-strain largemouth will zig when you thing it will zag, and it will serve up a Phil Niekro-style knuckleball when you least expect it.
About the only difference I see between a teen-aged girl and a bass lake full of Floridas is that I could leave the lake for greener pastures if things get a little too unpredictable. The girl? I would have to stick around and do my best to figure her out, or at least absorb the tough times until things got better.
Obviously, no self-respecting dad would abandon his daughter just because he no longer understands her. Why, then, do so many bass anglers abandon their favorite lakes just because they struggle catching fish?
Just like a dad who sees his daughter through adolescence by understanding the situation is rewarded with a fine young woman that eventually proves she was listening all along, a bass angler that sticks with his favorite lake through the uncertain times will eventually be rewarded with a lake full of fish that just so happened to be there all along.
Natchez State Park in Adams County is just such an example of this conundrum. Located off U.S. Highway 61 near Stanton approximately 10 miles north of Natchez, this 250-acre lake has lived a long and full life. So full, in fact, that it produced the current 18.15-pound state record bass in 1992.
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