Thread: Fistful of Fifteen

What a perfect morning, the scent of orange blossom in the air , NO WIND, & the first 2 fish on were 13". I know, where were they last week, the answer, lake Monroe evidently. All in 5 to 6 fow using mostly dark with chartruese tails. (sory speck detector...I didn't know how to start the postRofl) Fished from 7:30 until 9AM caught 18 and kept seven 12"+ only to give them away later. Then the fun began....I packed up ole' specktacular and headed for the blue gill hole with 100 crickets. They were waiting for me!! caught at least 20 or 30 mostly this years young brooders and a couple moby gills along the banks. The water temp was 77 and you know what happens when it it hits 78. I'd say in 1 1/2 to 2 weeks they will be settling in and the BIG ones will be ready to straighten some hooks.

Woo hoo I know where I will be Saturday!!!!!!!

Ye-olde cracker, that's good stuff right there, thus the speck season winding/slowing ect. down, not over. Those shelly's take a back seat to no other pan fish, believe the state record is well over a pound more than the speck record. That's why it's time for my boy & I to take our annual camping trip, before the nites get to hot. Usaually, hit Talquin for a long weekend, but the weather doesn't look good from mid-state north, so were goin try lake kissimmee this year. The only draw back, the next new moon isn't til april 6th, where goin fish specks & shell crackers anyways. Hope your Blackshere trip go's well, can't miss with that fancy resort, keeps the better half happy, you slick dog .