At 2:30 this afternoon I met Mickey on the city front . We immediately went to the Maranto 70 spot, named for the time Mickey sat there in one place and caught 70. The fish were chasing shad when we arrived. Mickey used a “found” topwater bait, one that he had found on the discount table at the Basspro Shop for $1.99.  It was a chrome elongated popper type bait with rattles that he had added a feathered back hook. The bass seemed to like it better than my Phillips Cripple Killer but both caught fish.  The Yozuri was effective too and probably caught most of the fish we caught. The fish were feeding on minnows that were maybe 1 1/2 inches long and they were so plentiful we both were impaling them on the Yozuri hooks all afternoon. It seemed the larger bass were caught on the topwaters however. The FOD was 3.08 pounds on Mickeys scale.  The high point of the afternoon was when Taff pulled up with his young son in the boat.  He had a child’s rod on which his son caught some fish and seemed to get excited about it. It was a great day to have him out fishing because fish were chasing shad everywhere and there was no way a youngster would get bored with all the action going on. It was a treat for Mickey and me to see a youngster enjoying it.  We fished until dark, which was about 7:30, and ended up with 86 bass, all released of course.  It was fun getting all the topwater action. We could have probably caught more with sticking to our Yozuris but they are not as much fun the topwaters. By doing that I also had the pleasure of watching the topwater maestro ply his trade.  There are no pictures because the action was too fast to stop.