"Wind from the east, fish bite the least" had me worried tonight as the pesky wind was coming from the NE all night long. No way I was going to do any jigging tonight so I simply rowed along towing my 3 lines. They wanted something with white in it I found out in the first hour, only landing 7 fish and 6 of them on the lines with some white. I was on a bluegill keeping mission and anything over about 8" was coming home.
About 5:45 the wind eased off by about 75% and the bite began to get better. By that time I was way up the shore, and knowing that it was going to get dark early, I turned around to start heading back to the launch. Not much showed on the sonar but I got some good action out over the basin. About 6:15 I found the big schools I was looking for like this one:
For the next 20 minutes the bluegill bite was just blistering hot. A couple of crappie, too but the bluegill just wore out my Southern Pro crappie stinger with a white tail. Second best lure was the 1/32 oz. Roadrunner in chartreuse with the SP triple tail grub in Tennessee shad color. Couldn't hardly buy a bite with it earlier in the trip but when the conditions changed, it became a favorite. Here's a few pics of my catch tonight:
When I called it a night at 6:45, I'd landed 36 for a total. 16 of them came home with me, 4 crappie and the rest were 'gills. All cleaned up and destined for some panfish almondine later this week. 2 small bass, 1 perch, 1 skinny throwback crappie, 4 keeper crappie and the rest were 'gills.
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