Got to take my nephews fishing for their first time ever. Hit up the local Yahara River and caught a bunch of panfish. Kept it simple with a pink jig. Had a great time!

Beautiful evening for a little post spawn dock fishing

On Sunday fished our club tournment at Green Lake in Wisconsin, 7,500 acre lake. With life going on didn’t have much time to prep or breakdown the lake. But I did fish it once before in 2024. So I just fished the way I like to fish and my goal was to beat my weight in 2024 of 9.74lbs. Ended up in 5th w/ 10.99lbs. All the weights were pretty tight. Winning bag was 16lbs, but he had a 6.5lb kicker. 2nd place was 12.5lb bag. Glad I got to spend a beautiful day on the water. Enjoyed every minute of it.

Does anyone have any experience/feedback on the Bubba Smart Scale or the new Lite version? My Rapala scale bite the dust and need a new one.

Went out after work with the wife and dog. Crushing the pre-spawn bass on Topwater. We were getting around 15 bass per hour. They were deep in coves and pockets, 3ft or less water, swimming around the big holes in the weeds. Bluegill and Crappie were everywhere too. Wife showed me up with a 20”. Fun night!

Following up on the Jerkbaits Doc Trez made. They worked well! First northern fish of the year. 17” Walleye, LMB, and a crappie on rocky points 8-14ft all on the pink translucent Jerkbait.

Doc Trez hooked me up and custom painted these jerkbaits for me. He gets the blanks from the manufacture so they’re tuned by the manufacturer and paints the color schemes you want. He also has a couple options for hooks and hardware. He has crankbaits rock crawlers, Megabass….hit him up if you’re interested and don’t want to pay $30 for a Megabass Jerkbait. Thanks Doc!

On our 14hr drive back to Wisconsin my dad (who was the guy in the front row who won a SUF box for being the oldest guy there) commented the retreat felt more like a family reunion. I couldn’t agree more with that. We’re a community but we’re also a family.

My club had their first tournament on the Madison Chain while we were at Hartwell. They crushed it with the pre spawn fatties. Seven 20lb bags and several 5+lb bass. To put it in perspective on the Madison Chain, 3.5lbers win you tournaments and the record LM is 7lbs.

Had such a great time seeing everyone and getting to catch up with them! Thank you to everyone who makes these retreats possible. Love ya’ll, see ya next time around.