My wife wanted to get out and fish with me, so I took her to a spot I've been eyeballing for a year or so on the upper part of Long Lake. Tackle wise we were geared toward trout, but we ended up with one rainbow each (and I believe they were natives, definitely smaller than triploids and had a bit of a hook to the jaw), each caught a smallmouth bass, and 6 pikeminnow. We catch and release, so even the pikeminnow were a blast especially on the smaller gear. Almost every fish (9 out of 10) was caught on a a gold inline spinner. We tried lots of other lures and flies (w/ bobber) but the spinner was the ticket. I'd actually never even used one before, my son picked it out at White Elephant for my birthday present. The first fish was a rainbow on a fly the wife was using. Then I rattled off 6 fish in a row with the spinner until I put it on her pole and thought I could find something else that would work. She caught the next 3 until we were ready to go. Only fished for an hour or two since we had to go pick up our son after preschool. A good day of fishing though!

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