I don't know how deep Halleck pond gets, but its seems rather shallow any where you fish. Today i was on the northeast side of the lake, it appears to be the deepest part. I first started out with my rendition of the Texas rig, pretty much a hook, pegged bullet weight and a plastic craw. After lightly jigging it up and down along the bank and not getting anything, i switched to the deep crankbaits on the baitcaster. The only thing that really caught was a bunch of weeds and brush. So i sat there for a little bit thinking of what to put on next, and i went back to the rig, but switched it out with a worm instead. Thats when i landed my first smallmouth, not large enough to keep, but a decent size nevertheless. I caught 2 more after that and then i caught a bunch of little perch. Funny thing about the perch, they weren't hooked. They would bite the end of the worm and never get hooked, but they would not let go of the end of the worm until i brought them out of the water.

I thought about adding a trailer hook to the plastic, but i don't know how i would go about doing that. I thought about just putting a hook at the end of the worm, but realized if a fish did get hooked on, it would pull the hook right through the plastic.