Our smallmouths have always hung around rock piles and shallow areas during the spawn and also very easy to get to hit. They will hit anything you can throw at them when spawning around the end of May to mid June. I have been getting messed up without my big boat going. Using the canoe is a great way to fish but you are limited on where you can go with it. The wind really messes things up on me.. Now with those largemouths only a few lakes up this way has them so it is a completely new ballgame for me..But, I have been enjoying it for the challenge it gives me to try and figure them out..

you are very fortunate to have so many different species where you fish at Phil..That would be very nice to have..Your water also looks much cleaner than where i fish at.

we have lots of heavy structure down here so during most tournaments ..especially in the spring most guys are either flipping or throwing white spinner baits.

Thanks Chuck, we do have a lot of different types of fish to fish for and the landlocks will be coming back up to the top in September sometime. The water here is really quite clean as well. Some of it is crystal clear while some is a little tainted but not bad.

The St. Croix River flowages has a lot of logs under the water making it harder to fish the bottom with. Always seem to hook into old logs from the old river drives..