River rapids, white bass, and a fish I couldn’t stop while fishing Minnesota’s Driftless Region
The jerkbait had almost returned to the rocky limestone shoreline after my first cast of the evening when the line stopped short. My rod tip began to lurch like a wild bronco was attached to the other end.
I leaned back sharply to set the hooks, just in time to see a hefty smallmouth bass leap out of the surging rapids and then disappear below the surface of the water.

