Opening Day Report

What a beautiful day it was. Light winds and plenty of sun this afternoon at Lasalle. I put in around 1P and started off on the cold side. I casted a shad colored Bandit Crank while slow trolling a spinner harness and minnow on the bottom. After about an hour or so with no takers I buzzed over to the hot side. I missed one on the bandit and also had a good rip on the spinner rig. I finally decided to drop the anchors and work a little slower. The first cast with a mini mite and fathead under a Thill baahbeer produced this little guy.



About every other cast produced a small cat so I set up a bottom rig with a spinner and roach. A few seconds later the rod got slammed and I narrowly avoided losing the rod over the side. The fish was fighting good, and it turned out to be Mr. Blue



After a few more small cats I finally hooked up with a hybrid



After that came a scrappy little greenie


And another nice blue


Followed by some more nice hybrids






I ended the day with another greenie on a crank and decided to call it a day at 5. I am VERY relieved to finally have gotten rid of the nasty skunk for '06

Matt