Not crappie skunked this time.

With high temps and stifling humidity expected today, along with possible strong storms later, 870 and I hit the water last night to see how the fish were biting. We pushed off about 5:15 with a pretty good breeze from the south, air temp about 82 and water temps about 87. We fished a pond that I've fished often but he's fished it only a time or 2. We drifted the basin ahead of the wind for a while, catching a few perch, a decent bass and a 'gill or 2.
We moved over to a contour near a shore I don't fish often and worked our way along for about an hour, landing some small crappie along with the other species. This one of about 10" went in to the cooler to join a couple of perch that went in earlier.



As the sun dropped lower, we motored across the pond to the opposite shore that was in the shade and the catching picked up. Some better bluegills, a few more bass and a long skinny pickerel of about 20" got their pictures taken.





As the magic hour arrived, the keeper crappie showed up with it. We both began to land the bigger crappie, ranging from 8" up to just under 13".




We both were casting and retrieving while leaving one pole dangling over the side as a teaser and those dangling lines were getting a work out. Then for a while, we both were simply vertical jigging with a pole in each hand and having a ball! At one point, we had 3 fish on 4 lines and were scrambling to get them all in the boat. Once the dusk bite started it was mostly crappie providing the fast action and many ended up on ice in the cooler. Anything under 10" got returned for another trip.



Hopefully 870 will post up some of his fish as he had some real nice ones.
We called it a night at 8:40 and headed back to the launch. A tally of 50 clicks on the clicker and about 20 fish in the cooler which went home with 870 for his family.