I had the distinct pleasure of guiding Baxterboy and his mom this past Saturday. The goal was a TARP bluegill for Baxterboy. I was sweating it for a couple hours as the weather was dismal (cool, raining) and the pond that has been my best for average size this year didn't produce anything above 9.75". When we had been at pond #2 for about ten minutes Baxterboy caught this one:

[IMG]northern-strain-May-17-2014 by tnpondmanager, on Flickr[/IMG]

Then about ten minutes later his mom caught this one:

[IMG]coppernose-May-17-2014 by tnpondmanager, on Flickr[/IMG]