I'm glad I'm not a fanatic about bass

Today's trek to the Chick was a blast, as long as you don't have a hissy if you don't catch bass. I caught one, small. I caught fish on every lure I chunked except last year's tried and true Little Cleo. Float a worm in the lilly pads for bass, catch a pickerel. Wiggle a worm, texas rig, chatch a pickeral. White spinner: pickerel. See lots of bluegill moving about, catch one bream, one crappie and 3 pickerel on a beetle spin. Largest fish was a 3-lb pickerel on a beetle spin on the ultralight rod. Lost one earlier because I wasn't paying attention to the drag. Got the drag right and had a fun 10-minute fight.

Not a bad day for being out on the water.