Lookin for some way to get out in the sun Sat, so we headed out to get the sled off her anchor. Made our way out to some not particularly special spots to see if the crappie bite has started. Nope. So off we went, trolling around some structure just past Suncrest. Picked up some squallys (go figure), and B latched onto a good fight. Couple minutes of reeling later and there is a nice meaty 14.5" smallie on the end of the line, a little on the chubby side for a spring fish. Too many sqaw hookups, so we changed tactics.

Headed WAAAY upriver past the whitewater to a big rock ledge underwater (6 ft deep on top, 25 below). Tossed some wormage down there, and hooked up with a pig suckerfish. Always a good fight, but not much of a food fish. We always try to keep a squaw or two in the boat for bird food, so we slit the belly and hung a piece of that in the hole to see what happened. I planned on seeing a BIG sucker hit it, but I was wrong. After a substantial fight, B brings a 22" german brown to the net! I would have never expected a GB to hit a piece of bellymeat from a squawfish, but the proof is in the photo.

Water level is slowly rising, about 6" a day. We will see what happens during the upcoming cold snap. Hopefully it doesn't drop, but just levels off at the worst.

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