On the eve of the Olympics, I took Z and his buddy out to Christmas Lake, near Excelsior, MN. We fished via canoe and worked the outer weed edges and pockets, with a single 8" crappie, numerous sunnies, and some LM bass later that evening. The prize catch was the baby softshell turtle Z hand-caught near the ramp.

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