Nice trip tonight

Pretty nice day here in CT and I was able to get after the fish once again on some local water. Air temp at 72, water temp about 68 for the most part, with cloudy skies overhead and very little wind for a change. I pushed off and had lines out at 4:35. The swamp wood has some color that came on quickly, here is the first area to turn as usual.





First hookup was a double, with an average perch and small bass kicking the skunk from the boat quickly. I'd have 5 over the side in the first 10 minutes with 3 bluegills nailing the Roadrunners. Bluegills were very active tonight, lots of them right around the 8" mark with only a few nudging the 9" line.





40 minutes in to my trip I had 18 on the clicker and could have stayed on the 'gills but as I got out in to the deeper water, I began to see larger marks just above the hard thermocline at the 20' level. I figured they were probably crappie and switched out my 1/32 ounce lures that were doing so well for 1/16th ounce lures to try for the deeper fish. Didn't take too long for that to pay off with the 1st crappie of the night, the first of quite a few actually. Here are a few of them.











You get the idea, some good ones thanks to the heavier lures. I'd lose 3 good ones tonight, 2 to jumping and shaking loose and the other got off thanks to some tangles lines. Oh, well, it happens I guess.
My catch rate slowed for sure, but catching the correct species for a change made up for it.
This group would produce a single crappie despite jigging over them as well as trolling over them. Had calm conditions to allow jigging on the schools I found but would only score a bluegill or 2 with that technique.



The Percy colored Crappie Magnet would do well tonight as would the Roadrunners with a Tennessee shad triple tail and the blue/black/chartreuse triple tail above.
I'd call it a night about 6:50 with light fading fast due to the overcast. 32 would get boated, with about a third of them being crappie for a change. The one early perch and bass but the rest were 'gills. All were returned for another time.
With rain forecast on and off for the rest of the week, looks like the weekend before I get out again.