Driving Miss Candi

There we wuz! Fat Albert’s favorite saying, in a fog this morning before daylight. We had to idle for a while in order to safely arrive at our first spot. I turned the Mercury 60 4 stroke off and deployed the new Terrova and started moving the boat into position to set the spot lock. I told Candi that I was moving the boat into position and she said “Let me land this fish first”, and thus our day began.

Smarty pants had made a cast while I was turning the boat around and landed a nice 12” Black crappie. But that was the last one for her until I had landed two or three crappie, a channel catfish, and a poor emaciated spotted bass that had some gene deformity. While I had her in the fog, I got way ahead of her on numbers, but when the sun finally broke through the fog, - well you can figure that one out.

Candi quickly began showing off and overtook me on numbers, but I caught the biggest crappie even though she claimed 1/2 of it because she gave me the jig to fish with. I had broken off on a stump. Grin.

I had to let her shoot docks for a little while. That is her favorite way to crappie fish and she can still shoot docks as well as and better than 95% of just about any other fisherman. I have created a monster. Lolol.

We fished some vertical structure, some offshore structure, a mini bluff, a brush pile or two and caught fish on every spot but one offshore spot that hasn’t produced a fish for me all summer and usually has big schools of fish on it. Go figure?

Many colors worked and jig heads from 1/24 to 3/32 oz were used, depending on water depth. Very little current and no wind until the sun got hot. Surface temp was 83 when we launch and 85 when we stopped. Lots of pics. We made one short 10 second video, but I don’t think I can post on this forum. We kept 9 keepers, released three over 13” and had 8-10 short crappie. I added a small Blue catfish on one spot.