Weekend Night Fishing

[zekepa]

Friday evening/night took my wife and daughter in law fishing. The evening started about 6pm with the remote for my Xi5 not working correctly. It would only turn the motor on and off and increase speed. No steering or being able to decrease speed or anchor lock. We didn’t let that stop us from fishing. I just had to kneel buy the trolling motor and manually move it. We only went a short ways from the dock to some deeper water where I was able to find some fish on the live scope. Dropped an anchor and started slip bobber fishing with minnows (6 to 8 ft depth) for the two girls and I tried single pole jig fishing (had a good many hits but only managed to catch 2 or 3). The two girls were both catching more than me. Crappie have to be 9 in on this lake to keep. Got some “Clickers” (legal fish that get counted) as well as smaller “Splashers” (throwbacks).

At dusk I set up for night fishing with green lights. We used my original Alumiglo 2ft light and one of the 1ft lights from Hydro Glo I bought on clearance.
https://www.crappie.com/crappie/main...g-green-light/
Lights were just dropped over the side of the boat in approximately the middle of an 1860MV so the brightest area was in the middle of the boat with the bow and stern areas having less light. It didn’t take long for the fish to start congregating around the boat. Initially all the fish were at 14 to 16 ft deep so I had to adjust the poles for the girls to start catching. As the night went on the fish kept expanding the amount of water column they were using. At one point my wife was just dangling the jig and minnow as deep as she could see and sight catching. Ended the night with 34 “Clickers”, 2 Perch and no clue on the number of “Splashers”. We quit when the ¼ pound of minnows were all used up.

Saturday evening/night my cousin and I went back to the same area with pretty much the same results, and same fish behavior. Fish started out 14 to 16 ft deep under the light and gradually started using more of the water column. Ended up with 29 “Clickers” and a lot for “Splashers”. Both nights fish sized ranged for 3 to 10.5 inches.
Trolling motor remote still isn’t working but at least this time I took the foot pedal with me to be able to steer the motor.