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We had low water conditions which caused Charlie and his brother to stay home....rather than risking a broken prop or shaft. Good call!

I arrived at Algonkian at 0520 to find Bob and Tim ready to roll in their kayaks.



A few minutes later Patrick and Steve arrived, they were fishing in my canoe.

There was NO current whatsoever but it was a beautiful morning!



We all split up to to our own thing...I headed right out in front but had no takers so I started throwing a buzz bait at the MD shore and got slammed by a skinny almost 13 incher. That was target #1....I wanted one on a buzz bait. As I was measuring him, he flipped and out the boat he went!

I also wanted one on a soft swimbait and a few minutes, this little guy obliged!



O then spend a couple oof hours "just lookin' ". I could not but a bite....actually, I had several bites but they never got to the boat. I fished the ledges on the other side of the 1st island for a long time. Some hookups but nothing doing.

Then I glanced over to the island and saw this....



It looked like an eagle but I needed a closer look to make sure it was one!



Yep! What a beautiful bird. I tried to make some noise to get him to fly buy nothing doing....he just sat right there.

I only had a little over an hour to go so I decided to head over to teh VA side where I used to fish back in the 80's. Some of the turf looked familiar but time does change things. It didn't take long to get this guy....



....but back in '86, that would have been a 2 pounder. I caught him and another one on a short white wacky worm.

A few minutes later, I got snagged...or so I thought. This 12.5" fat smallie fought like there was no tomorrow!



I am impressed with their fight every time I go out...they put LMB to SHAME!! For the day, I hooked about 10 fish and landed 6 of them.

This is a beautiful but nasty bird!



These guys will chase you don and put a hurting on you!

We all ended up back at the ramp at 11 AM and everyone caught fish. I will let the other guys tell their story.

On the way home, at a stop light, I lost my canoe! Somehow, one of the straps came lose and when I went to go on the green, out it went. No harm done as I was going slowly!