Hit the lake about 8, meant to be there earlier but slept in a bit... Whoops. Started lookin' for ditch pickles with a deep crank, bull doggin' it through the shallow rocks. 'Bout the third cast a monster slurped it up and went flyin one way and my crank went flyin the other! Dangit! Got a 14" bouncing the crank off a down log about five minutes later, nothing special except that she had two monsters trailin' her as I cranked her in. I turned her loose and went back for the big two, but couldn't stirr'em up.

Time passed... Switched to a tube jig and had success pretty much anywhere I had the patience to work it real slow. I whacked my biggest ditch pickle of the year about halfway through the day. The bite was tricky, she slurped it up and swam right at me, I was lucky I figured out what was going on before she spit it! After a good fight, she came in the boat, wieghed in, smiled for a picture and back she went. 'Bout half hour later, 'bout 10 feet from that one I whacked an 18" pig! Then ditto that last sentence and I whacked a 16"er!!! So now I've got a spot on this lake I'll throw a thousand casts at every visit and won't even get sniffed I'm sure!

Left the lake about 1 and pretty pleased. 12 pickles total: 1 @20", 1@18", 2@16", 3@14" and about half the rest over 10" anyway. I give it 5 gold stars for monster I landed! The rest was bonus!

THrilleR out!

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