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Caught ten smallies on the Maumee River, plus a few bonus fish. And my first flathead ever! The Strike King coffee tube cleaned up today

I’ve been loving my KastKing Kestrel BFS combo this year! The drum and the catfish were a BLAST to fight on the BFS. And the little bass were super fun too!

Had an hour to kill before work and caught this little guy. Very fun on the BFS

First luck I’ve had on the Karashi. Pretty decent little smallie! (Two pics, same fish)

I was nervous after getting a hook jammed in my finger and going to the ER yesterday, but I took my BFS rod out anyway. Watched this carp chase down and devour my crankbait right in front of my face. Caught a couple smallies before him to warm up. 😂

All caught on a Mepps #3. Once again targeting bass, but the channel cats show up instead. Did manage one smallie and a tiny white bass.

Took the kayak out one last time before my vacation is over, hit up the bottom of some rapids near me. River was LOADED with catfish. Chatterbait and crankbait was all I used.

Beat the bank today with a spinnerbait. Had 9 days off, and I think I fished dang near every one of them. Last vacation before we have our baby in September, so I don’t know when I’m going to have this kind of time again. Definitely made the most of it!

Maumee River is only channel cats right now. I’m not complaining!

The Rapala DT6 has become my new favorite lure. I swear, right now the Maumee River is only channel cats 😂

On one of my recent posts, somebody was surprised there was somewhere you could slay channel cats on a crankbait. Well, I did it again. Sometimes I think that the Maumee River ONLY has channel cats and drum. Still fun to catch. Got a surprise smallie at the end when I was trying to sight-fish a school of drum!

The gar (two pics, same fish) was missing its tail fins. I thought that was interesting. The cats were liking my crankbait today while I was looking for smallies.

Technically only my second ever muskie, but was exciting reeling this one in! 41-incher

Was throwing a pink bucktail for smallmouth bass on a Daiwa Aird-X medium spinning rod with 10-lb. line and hauled in this beautiful girl. Only my second muskie ever, and I wouldn’t have gotten it in if it weren’t for my grandfather, who is a huge muskie fisherman, telling me what to do.

Couldn’t keep the drum off the chatterbait today. Got a smallie and a gizzard shad too! The Maumee River provided on Father’s Day. Can’t wait to be able to take my boy out to do this one day.

My grandfather thinks maybe a shad? I’m not sure at all

Edit: Caught in the Maumee River in Maumee, Ohio

This guy bit a chatterbait I was throwing a few days ago. Put up a pretty good fight and wrapped himself up in my line pretty good.