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My brother-in-law and I headed out on the Mississippi river on the morning of July 4th. It was going to be real hot and we were having a big cookout in the afternoon, so we decided to fish till around 11am.  He had never been fishing out on the big river before, so I was hoping to show him some good fishing.  Unfortunately this is a bad time of year to really get on some good fish.

We found the shad and had plenty of good sized bait for the morning.  We didn’t do very well with catching decent fish though.  I let him catch all the fish but it ended up only being 2.  Both of them were in the 5lb range and they were both scraped & somewhat bloody.  Apparently the spawn has been a little rough on them.  We had a couple other good hits but they never fully committed.

It was a pretty day out and we had a nice breeze, so we didn’t bake.  I’m overly ready to start catching some nice cats.  These 5 lbers are killing me.  Thanks James Paul for the fun day on the river!

Shane

My brother-in-law strains himself to hold up the "lunker" of the day!