The past few days on the river have been enjoyable to say the least. Since Thursday I have been on the water every day and have covered much of pool 8 including parts of 7 and 9. I had the pleasure of getting out with John Stears on pool 9 yesterday and that was a great experience. We found a couple takers on a flipping bite near wood, but for the most part the bite was very tough. A few frog fish showed themselves but would hardly commit to the bait. With a tough bite on 9 we headed for “home” and looked for some more agressive frog fish on pool 8. We only fished 8 for a couple hours but managed to boat somewhere between 10-12 keepers in that time, most coming on a frog. I used a frog to get the fish out of the slop while John alternated between his frog and a swim jig to clean out a lot of good fish. All in all it was a great day. No real monsters were caught, but we did have a couple around 3 and a nice double on a couple fish over 2-1/2 lbs as you see John holding below. Thanks for coming down John it was a great time! and your Tournament Strength tuna is pretty good! (coming from someone who has always been pretty much afraid of tuna 
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Today was a different day on the water and I wanted to try some new water so off to pool 7 it was. it took me a long time to find the first fish of the day but once I did I was very happy. I found an offshore windblown vegetation point and flipped a chigger craw with a half ounce weight. Several fish came out of one spot including one over 3 lbs. The wind was getting a little annoying at this point and I was getting hungry so I came off the water early with a limit of around 11 lbs. after lunch I went back out on 8 for an hour and popped one more fish over 3 lbs. All in all it has been a good week of fishing for me since school got out. I have found some slop fish, flipping fish, and swim jig fish, my bread and butter! Below you will find some pictures starting last week with my best 2 from a club tournament I won with 12 lbs and then a 20″ smallmouth from Friday, Justin with a 2-1/2+ from Saturday, and the rest are from yesterday’s outting with John.
-Cade
