I spent Saturday this past weekend painting in the house. Sunday I wanted to get out on Tonka to start getting prepared for my last Weekend Series event that is in about 5 weeks away. The reason to start so early is two-fold, I am not very strong on Tonka as I have not fished it much and that I will be tied up for two weeks straight with the MN Bass Federation Nation TOC on Gull and the BASS Federation Nation Northern Divisional on Le Homme Deu.
I want to do well, as I have a shot at the points title, since I am currently 2nd…… The big catch is that I am behind Dean Capra who practically lives on Minnetonka in the Summer. I launched out of Gray’s bay around 7am. I went to an area that I had caught big fish before and did not have a bump on my big 1oz jig. I then ran to a calmer bay where I could try my topwater. There was a lot of bluegill activity, but I could not get any bites on my Vixen. I tried to wake a Bomber Long A, no luck. I pitched my Bronzeye frog around a dock and a 3lb smallie annihilated it, that was the highlight of the day! Too bad smallies will be out of season for my tournament 
I moved back out the the deep weed edge and threw a 1/8oz Tru-Tungsten Ikey Head Jig with a Reaction Innovations Flirt Worm, I caught a few peanuts doing that.
Then I backed out into 18-20 ft and looked for some hard bottom areas and dragged an AT Football head with a Lake Fork Craw Tube, nothing on that.
I then moved to a milfoil point and started chucking a Bluegill DT10, I caught several keepers, but the biggest being only 2lbs. This about the time the sky started to light up like the 4th of July with electricity. I went and sat under the Gray’s Bay bridge for abotut 2 hrs, until the lightning passed.
After that I went back out for about 2-3 hrs and fished a bunch of differnt baits and patterns without a single keeper. I had a few good bites on a big jig in the milfoil but missed them, I think the storm kind of screwed things up a bit. Looking at my calender, I only have two days left between now and the tournament to get out. I may try to get out a few evenings on top of that.
Rich
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