Hadn't been catching much in the past few weeks, but my niece and nephew stopped by and wanted to fish last night. They were using nightcrawlers with not much luck so I grabbed a big ol' fathead from the minnow bucket and set it next to the island under a bobber.

Caught a 3.5# LMB after about 2 seconds. Managed half a dozen more, but that was the biggest. Couple others were in the 1.5-2 lb range, and all fat and sassy.

Ruger had hooked a micro-bass (mebbe 4" long) and was reeling it in when something else absolutely anihilated that poor lil bass. Didn't catch it...probably another hungry LMB.

Wish we'd start catching some gills, but that water is still only in the low 60's. I guess warm water'll get here someday.


In a lifetime, the average driver will honk 15,250 times. My wife figures I'm due to die any day now...