Spotted bass fishing

We took advantage of the nice weather Sunday afternoon and went spotted bass fishing in a tributary of the East Fork of White River.  The river stage was at 7.6 ft and falling slowly.  We tried crankbaits and spinnerbaits without much success and then a topwater chugger.  After trying my usual slow technique without success, a nice bass hit the chugger as I was reeling in quickly to make another cast.  I sped up my retrieve and the bite was on!  I have never used a chugger so quickly before, but didn't mind it, since it was working so well.  We didn't count them all, but it was an action packed couple hours.  The bass were all in good, prespawn condition with the largest one at 13 inches.  On the way home we drove to another tributary of the East Fork to see if the redhorse sucker spawning run had started yet.  Bending over the guardrail of the bridge we saw several large redhorse staging in a deep pool under the bridge.  We also counted four longnose gar in the pool, no doubt, also on their upstream spawning run.