No, this isn't an End Times shot--just a little fun with the solarization effect on my photo editing program.
I caught this fine looking thunder pumper (a.k.a. croaker, a.k.a. grinder, a.k.a. bubbler, a.k.a. sheepshead, a.k.a. freshwater drum) on the afternoon of July 5.
Bridgette, my friend from my now-vanished days of gainful employment and inadequate free time, stopped by after work for a cruise in the Jennifer V. While drifting and discussing the state of affairs at the office (yikes!), I hooked a mess of little smallmouth, as well as the pictured thunder pumper. He hit a gold twister tail.
The thunder pumper is a respectable piscatoral citizen--a dogged fighter with with mild, tasty flesh that is native to Minnesota waters. Still, a lot of anglers leave them to die on shore based on the mistaken notion that killing such "rough fish" will increase the numbers of walleye or other game fish. That's not right.
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