Upper End

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Saturday morning I went out for the first time in two weeks. A nice man had called me at the suggestion of Alan, the marina operator at Holiday Island.He recently moved here from Chicago and TR had been abusing him. He asked me if I could show him a few places and tricks. I reluctantly agreed because I knew it meant an almost guaranteed skunk. We took his boat - a brand new tracker - and fished 5:30 to 11:00. We had 11 fish on, but many self released. One of the 11 was a solid keeper. The rest were 10 to 14 inches. All hit brown/green jigs in shallow water on points near channels. All were before 8:30. At least we avoided the skunk.

Late August and I'm catching fish on jigs in less than 10 feet of water. Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.