2 fer Thursday

[Ketchn]

Hit a boat dock at lunch time yesterday , pretty much so so , I think a big bass in my condo might be why the fish never seem to be in that condo .
She grabbed the jig and tried to take the rod out of my hand . Went to the air tricks quickly , slammed herself off a gunwale of a boat in the air at one point , after the first hard run and reel screaming , we battled for a good bit .
Kept my 5.5 rod bent down hard and about half or more of the time I kept 2/3 of the rod under the water . She was my first fish of the day and the fish gods seemed to like me the rest of the day.
I managed a poor number at the dock of only 14 in an hour and had to work hard for them . They seemed to like a really pretty much ugly hand tie in a 4 color combo .
Hit the lake an hour away after work and had only 1 solid good crappie rod and my short stuff 5.5 with me .
They seemed to also have a thing for the same ugly hand tie out there ?
Beat all the other colors I tried by a mile and is still on the little 5.5 rod as I type .
Tons of just 10 inch fish in the mix and only 16 good keepers made it to the live well . Lost quite a few nice fish at the boat because the little spaghetti rod has zero back bone and won't flip a fish out of the water well .
Here comes the days downer , laid my 8 foot rod down on the gunwale and fished with my 5.5 hand tie as it was just hurting them . Out of the corner of my eye I saw a whack on the 8 footer as something laid down on that jig dangling over the side .
Unbeknownst to me as I was concentrating on the super light bites my 8 ft Rod had slid up under a cleat .......
and when I grabbed it up in hook set fashion .......
SNAPPED her right in half just above the 2 pc. joint !
Made me a bit sad to say the least but I kept the tears back and kept ketchn .
Managed to ketch a bit over hundred total on crappie by days end in the 2 combined trips and also managed one more bass on lake 2 that liked the air as well but was much smaller .
and that was my 3 hour total ketchn on the 2 different lakes
sometimes it is what it is you know ,and in the end
KABOOM is still the word