Another great day on Sprague Lake. This was our seventh trip since the ice left the lake and we have put 64 fish in the boat. The trip Monday we got nine in the boat and missed and lost at least that many more. there was about a 6 mph east wind blowing so any time we had the bow toward the east and had to leave the steering wheel to net a fish things could get turned around pretty fast. My wife got the first hook up of the day about 15 mins. after getting in the water, it was a dandy about 20 inches. While she was doing a great job fighting her fish I got one, of course the wind spun the boat around and our lines crossed and we had two nice fish at the back of the boat all tangled together. I got one fish netted and in the boat and got the net hung up on a knob on the down rigger. After what seemed like an eternity of being laughed at I had the net free and netted the other fish. The nice thing about fishing with my wife is that I can count on this story being told at every camp ground we go to this year and maybe next year. After all that it one bite after another all day long. We had some smaller tiller boats around us that seemed to be doing pretty good also. The picture is of our fish last Friday 3/21, 10 fish(not gutted) weighed 24.8 pounds. We are just pulling trolling gear with hand tied weeding ring type spinners tipped with worms.

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