Dan Branton emailed me this picture of a bass he caught in Cottonwood Chute. It is the body of water that you cross on the new river bridge before you get to the river.

It, like all bodies of water affected by the River, has benefited by the high water the last few years.  He said  the fish was caught on a black jig, which I assume was a crappie style jig. Speaking of crappie, Mickey caught two on a worm yesterday which is sort of an odd occurrence. Dan also mentioned that the bream were out in the open water in force. We noticed the clouds of them floating out in the open too. I thought they were supposed to bed on the full moon in May which is now.