Flags, we'll have to meet up one day soon. I'll tow your float tube behind my little kayak!
Well, I first got into them as soon as I started fishing off my neighbor's boat house. I have one being constructed as I type.
Then, later launching from the boat ramp area in my kayak, I have found them in several places. One has been over the length of the stated lake record, others right at the 10" mark. These larger ones have been caught up in the shadows under the boat houses.
No, too much trouble to register a new lake record and I am absolutely certain that lots of larger than the current record panfish have been caught out here, just not submitted. One article I found about panfishing said they caught several well over the stated record.
Here are a few beauties off of Lake Athens. Brad