Take one Transplanted Tennesseean…

Add in a small Redneck Relaxation Machine…

Spend an afternoon at the submerged mud pit that is Bushy Park…
… and you get dinner for one!

An 18" trout (Rebel Pop-R), and a flounder (white paddle-tail grub) that was a smidgen over 14".
Let me tell you what… when a trout explodes on a top-water plug less than FIVE feet from the boat, it really gets your heart pumping!
Very nice!!! Glad it was a productive day.
The larger trout definitely seem to prefer the topwater around there.
We need to set Isaac up with something topwater that he can just cast & reel, cast & reel…
I suspect something like a small swimbait would work for that as well, under a thunder rig. I think he’d have a lot of fish come loose with a topwater.
I really need to pick up some DOA shrimp, those are also good with cast/retrieve.