EricM, Chick, multi-species, 05-22-09

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Another interesting day on the water! I had my bait tank half-full of a mish-mash of bait, bought or caught or netted over the last week, so I used them to entice whatever was in the mood today.<br /><br />I used threadfin and shiners on the bass and white bass with rather mediocre results. Largemouth were few and small, only found one spotted bass, and no smallmouth. I caught one really nice crappie on a brush pile, and the white bass that I found were not stacked up in big schools today, but they were fiesty.<br /><br />The blue cats came through for me very nicely today. They were hard to find, and even though there were a bunch of folks out trying, I only saw two fish caught, looked like a 6 and a 10. Once I found them, I had a ball. I used bluegill, threadfin, big golden shiners, and even a big gizzard shad and had luck on pretty much everything. I had two big fish come unbuttoned (happens with big baits) and still landed a 21, two 18's, a 16, two 14's, two 8's and two 6's!!!<br /><br />The cruisers and river chiggers were definitely warming up for the weekend, but were quite polite again today. I wouldn't count on that behavior continuinig for the big weekend - be careful out there!<br /><br />Oh, and be careful of the sun. Despite my being out a lot this year, I burned pretty well today when I wasn't looking.....................