East Lake

You get the short version because the full write up was lost.  I got to spend a few days at East Lake to try my hand fishing for Browns.  My biggest was the very first one I caught but I ended up with 36 for the trip.  Best producers were the plugs pictured below.  If anybody has questions on the details feel free to ask and I will answer them.  I just don't want to spend another hour writing a full report.

Beautiful brown!

that bottom Hot Lip can be a Springer killer   

That's awesome!  Did you keep some?  Gonna eat them?

No I didn't keep any, East Lake has a high mercury warning on it so I didn't want to feed any to the kids.  Unfortunately the one in the picture inhaled the plug I tried to revive him but to no avail (you can actually see the blood in  the footwell of the boat) I would have ate him but a new rule this year prevents you to keep them over 16 inches so I fed him to the Eagle.

Sweet fish and even in its abridged version, nice report.  I still have yet to catch a brown.  God knows I've thrown a lot of gear at them in the past but they've always eluded me.

I wonder if the 16 inch rule is meant to keep people from eating the ones with the highest concentrations of mercury?