Another after work trip

Had an opportunity to get in another trip after work and launched about 4:45. Fairly strong breeze from the SSE but I expected that and expected also that it would lay down before too long and it did, thankfully. Air temperature was 68, water temp about 64. I made a pass along the windy shore to start and started off the trip with an average perch of 8 or 9", and a smallish crappie, perhaps 9-10" within the first 15 minutes or so.




These are pretty representative of what came in to the boat tonight. I didn't score any big numbers or big sizes, but did have enough action to keep my interest. Here are a couple more of the bigger crappie I landed, about 10" or so:





The crappie bite was very tentative tonight; I had to watch the rod tips carefully to see them. The perch and the bluegill on the other hand simply smashed the jigs, no questioning whether that was a hit or not. The gray minnow tube seemed to get the most attention; I kept it on all night and switched out the other poles with stingers, road runner, and the paddle tail. Each of them caught something but the minnow tube was the champ.
It sure seemed to get dark quickly and the temperature dropped quickly as well; it was 55 when I started up the truck to come home. I stayed until I could no longer see the tips of my poles while trolling and pushed on to shore at 7. The colors aren't much to brag about yet but hopefully they'll get better now that we've had a bit of rain.



Totals for the trip would be 4 perch, 4 bluegill and 9-10 crappie, running from about 7" up to roughly 10". Kinda slow but was a relaxing trip just the same; it was a welcome change to not have to fight the wind like the last few trips.