Well I am back from my two day trip and just like all fishing trips it was too short. We left Illinois later then I wanted to on Tuesday and did not get to Prairie until 10:30 am. We could not check into my cabin until 1:00, so we eat lunch and headed to Cabela’s. We messed around in there and picked up a few things and headed to our cabin.
The camp ground had a lake so we ended up fishing that for awhile. I caught two small bass on a black and red swimjig.
Finally we were off to the river 
it was really windy and blowing right out of the south so I was trying to find places out of the wind. I ended up using a small boat ramp near the town of Clayton. We fished what we could because of the wind and we finally found a pocket of smaller fish. My wife caught the first one on a spinnerbait. Then I picked up 3 others on a swimjig. We fished the area with the trolling motor on 4 just so I could move 
I really need to get rid of that 43lb thrust motor. At about 5:30 we decided to head back to the cabin to fish and get cleaned up before we went to eat. We ended up catching 8 more fish but they were all under 14″. My wife did catch her first fish on a buzzbiat 
This morning we had trouble getting up I think we had a few to many 
while sitting around the fire 
. We put in next to the casino boat and headed to a spot just off the east chanel. First cast I hook a fish on a buzzbait. It turned out to be a Northern 
10 cast later I caught a small bass on a buzzbait, soon after my wife had 3 blows but missed all of them. I switched over to a spinnerbait and caught another small bass and two more northerns. I switch to the other side and I landed a 14″ on a spinnerbait and then lost a nice bass on a swimjig. It was the biggest fish of the trip (not to hard to do though). We did not get anymore hits so we whent back to the other side and I lost a swimjig to another northern 
. After that I got two more small bass on a spinnerbait, then we pulled out for another spot. I quickly picked up another 14″ bass then a small bass and another small northern. Nothing else in that spot so I fished one last area before we had to hit the road. With in the first ten min I had a hit and I set the hook and sent a 10″ catfish flying. Very next cast I caught another small northern. That put an end to the trip.
I had trouble finding the bigger fish but I did have fun and I caught alot of fish. I also caught more Northern today then I have ever caught in one day.
Pictures to follow,
Jeremy
