On 9/16 I was taking my wife, Jeanne, out to catch a few panfish on Lake Zumbro. I figured I needed all the help I could get to outfish her this time, so we stopped into HOF on the way out. Mike fixed me up with some of those mini-mites & waxies, so I was hopeful that I could finally outfish Jeanne.
The plan was to fish with a hook & crawler on one rod and mini mite & waxies on the other rod. In the first hour Jeanne’s hook & crawler just kicked butt over my mini-mite & waxie. But I said I was going to stick with the mini-mite all day regardless of how bad it was. After about an hour the mini-mite started catching all the bigger fish so much that we put identical mini-mites on both rods. But one mini-mite had a hunk of crawler and the other had a waxie on it. As far as numbers and size go the mini-mite & waxie out produced the mini-mite & crawler, but not by much.
HOF Good News:
Mike did fix us up with a hot presentation that caught about a 100 fish and produced some very large 9” sunfish. We only kept enough for a family fish fry. And I finally did catch more of the bigger fish than Jeanne. Here is a picture of Jeanne with an 8” sunfish that engulfed the tiny mini-mite jig.
Honestly, she was following my boat around all day Wednesday and we finally decided to name her. Those poor bass guys are gonna probably drool…. 
