Dwight Hottle

@softwateronly Sweet.

@softwateronly I have got brown bass envy after reading your report. Headwaters girl from today.

That truly sucks but like Katie mentioned you were going to release her anyway. You still caught a DD and that doesn’t change. Congrats.

Everybody advises rest & relaxation when going through chemo. But if you can try some push ups or resistance exercises if you have the strength. The muscle loss past the age of 50 is really tough to regain.

9-10 release.

My thoughts are with you Tommy. Hang tough.

@king fisher I have always wondered about your PB at only 10lbs+ because it looks a lot bigger. Tom's comment about it being a teenager makes more sense.

My PB largemouth was caught on a SK 3/4 oz lipless 2-tap crank bait in silver/blue. My PB smallie was caught on a Smithwick rogue deep diver jerk bait in a discontinued color called tiger minnow.

@Swamp Girl We caught all our fish off that island except for the big girl. We heard a splash further away on the other side of the island at a mile marker post with some vegetation around it. So we went over to investigate & the first cast at the edge of the weeds she bit. We both patted each other on the back for pulling up to check it out. We didn’t get any further bites there so we set back up where we were at the island before. My first cast there resulted in the second biggest fish of the day.

What do you gift yourself on your birthday? You go fishing is my answer. So I called up my buddy Capt Erik Tilson to go shiner fishing on lake Kissimmee yesterday. We put in at the ramp at Camp Mack my first time staying there. We found a floating island & set up there. The fishing was fast & furious with over 50 fish caught before we ran out of bait. We spent the rest of the day fishing artificials which resulted in only one fish caught on a swim jig. The best two went 7-12 and 9-10. An epic birthday for sure.

Shrimp is for saltwater only! LOL actually its is a killer color for me in LC craft baits including the pointer 100, 127, 128 & staysee models for great lake smallies.

Sweet.

Have you tried your local library?

@GoneFishingLTN Smallie love jerk baits & they love rock. The only time jerk baits don't work well over rock is when they are feeding down rather than feeding up. But they still will eat a jerk bait if you get it down into their feeding zone.