Lake Tarpon (2/25/2014)

[Seabrat]

Weather forecast was perfect, so I picked up dad and headed up to Lake Tarpon! Made a quick stop at Dicks so he could pick up a spool of 4# Trilene XL (only line he will use).

At the ramp a couple of boats coming in told us they hadn't caught anything - but a day on the water is better one off the water, so we ran over to just north of Pasture Fence Point and started trolling south in 12 - 13 feet. Trolling a 1/8 ounce road runner head with a green/yellow slider grub, the bluegill started hitting hard right away. I managed to land a good size shell cracker and a bluegill in short order. Dad hooked up with a nice crappie, then the bite slowed.

We made a second pass and I trolled a second rod with a pair of 1/32 jigs, one with an electric chicken Garland shad, the other with a brown/yellow Slider panfish grub about 60 feet back. It didn't get bit all day! Dad trolled one of his white hair jigs in 1/16 and caught several more crappie.

Near the end of the day we trolled from Piney Point down to Wall Point and picked up a few more crappie mid-lake.

It was a really nice day on the lake with dad and he's only going to be here a couple more weeks before he goes back home to St. Louis. I sincerely hope to get him back out on the water few more times before then!