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The water is still quite cold in the tributaries, but the smallmouth were biting this weekend. I thought I'd run into brown trout, but instead, the pike and smallmouth bass were hitting spinners and jerk baits.

Tried for trout and pike with spinners and jerk baits. The pike were there, but no trout. Instead, even though it is still pretty cold, I found some good smallmouth that were biting.

I tried spinners and crankbaits in the tribs, and didn't find them. There were a few in the Port Washington Harbor (a harbor on the Wisconsin Side of Lake Michigan)

Tried a tributary and then went to the harbor. Found the browns with a crankbait in Port Washington.

Possibly a PB for me. I landed a huge female this weekend fishing in a Lake Michigan Tributary.

The past two weeks, I made it to the Milwaukee River to fish for trout. There are some big ones in the river. I might have caught my biggest brown ever this weekend.

The big trout are in the tributaries, or at least in the Milwaukee River right now. I went fishing with a Mepps Black Fury spinner and caught some nice brown trout. Most folks were float fishing with spawn, and I saw three steelhead landed that way. This video is from Sunday. The warm weather has them in the tribs.

Finally got a brown trout in a Lake Michigan Tributary (and some pike, too)

The boys and I made our annual trip to the Wisconsin Dells, and we caught a bunch of sturgeon. A lot of other fish were biting, too.

Rooster tails in a creek are deadly! Plus, I hit 10K subs. Cool beans.

Surprise catch on a piece of cut up shiner.

I tried my luck on the Mukwonago River (Wisconsin) in what was my first ever attempt at microfishing. I wanted to catch a logperch. I think I was using things that were too big, though. I did catch a variety of species, and did manage to see a logperch as well.

Had a family picnic on the big river and put the kids on some fish, even in the shallows.

I love bowfin. They are such an amazing prehistoric fish. Some largemouth bass got in the way (that's what I call a good problem) when I was trying to catch a bowfin, but I found them.

My best largemouth caught between storms!