I don't make posts like this very often, actually this doesn't happen very often. I fished Saturday at Rayburn, idled away from the Monterrey ramp with my lights on and came back with my lights on, fished the entire day, for just a couple of bites. Sunday morning I idled out with my lights on again and fished until 3:00, and I never caught a single fish. I don't know that I have every done that before, anywhere. I fished deep, I fished shallow, I through moving baits, I threw plastics, I have never been more lost fishing......the positive and negative, my partner goes out with a guy from the media and catches 26+ to win the Rattle Trap tournament. Now granted I stayed out of the area that I knew there were some fish in so I didn't get in his way, but still, all day and not one fish, I missed one out deep about 10 minutes into the day on a Carolina rig, but that was my sole bite for the day. My sense is the warming trend this week will make it better, but the score this weekend, Rayburn Black bass 2, Ken 0...

Back from Rayburn this past weekend, and down again this weekend. Fishing is, well it's really fun right now. From what I saw there are lots of fish shallow and lots of fish what I would call mid-deep, say 18-25 feet. This coming weekend a year ago is the weekend Skip Chancellor and I won the Ice Bowl last year with 28.68 and those fish were all 35-37 feet deep. But according to my log the main lake surface temp that day was 46-47 degrees, it's 9-10 degrees warmer than that now, or at least last weekend. I know winter is still lurking, but it the water keeps at the current level or rises at all in the next few weeks I would not be a bit surprised for some pretty decent sacks to get caught out of the bushes in Champs or TTT. Will be an interesting spring with very, very little hydrilla and no pad stems. There is a good amount of coon tail shallow, but my experience is that generally the fish don't set up in it prespawn, I've caught some post spawners there but not pre. Had to snap this shot, you know how you have a fish that aaalllmost touches 14", check out this guys tail, he really wants a ride to a weigh in this year.

Had a great week from a writing perspective, Gary Yamamoto's Inside Line Magazine published their 10 most clicked stories for 2015 and two of mine, made the top 10. You can see them ere, they are numbers 6 and 10.

• Click here for The Top 10 Stories of 2015 

Then to end the year on a high note Jay Kumar's Bass Blaster, a great weekly online Bass update picked up my most recent article I published with John Hope...just hope the fishing in 2016 is as good.