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We had planned to fish and the weather decided to mess that up (rain, then 15 mph winds), so I had him help me put new tires on my trailer.  By the time we finished that, the wind did not seem too bad, so we decided to give it a try.  We ran upriver a bit on the protected side of an island.  Good thing we did.  I caught the first fish on a buzzbait and he had a green 3" senko.  After he got no bites, I tied on a 4" watermelon Powerbait lizard.  Not long after that I heard drag pulling and I thought he was snagged.  I asked him to give me the rod and I then realized it was a fish.  I handed him back the rod and the fight was on!  I thought it was a big cat, because it stayed down, but then I saw it was a large Smallie!  After a few more short runs, I was able to net the beautiful 18" chunk.

We were stoked!  He caught no more on that, so I rigged up a Z man Crusteaz and first cast had a feisty Smallie.

We kept that on and he caught one more Smallie and a good sized sunfish.

I ended up with 4 Smallies and a catfish that slammed a rebel craw.  Great afternoon and so glad we went.