The Blind Squirrel

[Ketchn]

occasionally finds an acorn they say ......
so does a Blind Jig is my thoughts ....
But once you bend one good and fix it , they ain't never quite the same ....
poor thing has been just hammered by the fish , probably around 200 to 250 fish in hand and another 25 to 30 that slipped away before I could hold them .
one thing for certain . the fish sure liked it .....a right lovely bait for sure
I think it's a mean minner jig head that Jungle Jim ties up all pretty, very similar to a bucktail jig, only really tiny and he uses duck feathers .....
So here we go , I hit a spot that I have not visited since early winter last year ...
A bud said he ketched 2 crappie over there last week .....
Well , I ain't sure if he needed a different bait or not ,but ....
BOY howdy was that lunch break some bigtime KABOOM !
first pitch till I couldn't take the heat anymore got bit ...
slab festival style yawl .....man was it on fire !
landed 43 fish and was sweating hard in that there bridge shade ...
almost zero breeze and 100 plus makes it a not so fun thing pretty quickly.
Lost several BIG fish on the lil minner and had to retire it , bending out more than once is a bad thing for sure ....
went to a big jig and noticed right off , the fish size went way down on average ....still ketched some good ones , but the dinks were going bananas over the bigger jig ....go figure ....
the fish all swam off to go back to what the fish do ....
the bass was a BLASTER , btw , multiple big air cartwheels as soon as it got hooked right by my feet ....!
Sure was a great day , so much good news and great ketchn it is almost not believable,,,,
my permit to tap the middle trinity aquifer for my new pond ,got approved
the fish were on fire right after .....
they delivered super tasty pizza at my work
and a nice fat raise in my salary ...
it was like I hit the lotto kind of day ....
What a WOW for a Monday
Pure KABOOM for sure ....
the jig might have retired , but not lil ole me for sure
p.s. 1 pm , about 3 foot to 3.5 deep under the float , liked it moving and twitching slowly , lots of shad in the area , bigger fish ,were tight to old wooden bridge columns from before there was a concrete bridge in that location

[SuperDave336]

Good jig, good report, good pics and awesome KABOOM!!! Congrats on raise, not sure what that is myself....lol.

[Yak Fish]

Kaboom is the word! They definitely wore that little jig out. That's the best way to need new jigs. I sacrifice too many to snags, logs, and roots. Thanks for the pics & post. Keep after 'em!

We've got Hurricane Debby bearing down and they're calling for 7"-10" of rain here. I'm not planning on getting out in the mud this weekend.

Jim

[BuckeyeCrappie]

KABOOM!

[Jamesdean]

Ya'all stay dry over there playin' with Debby...Congrats on some nice fishes as usual there ketchn, as well as the Raise in the paycheck...

[DockShootinJack]

Got the life out of that one

[P-row]

Atta way Ketchn!!

[wc870]

Looks like a winner for sure.


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[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

That's quite a haul of slabs in the heat. You had a great day for sure.

[BON TEMPS]

Kaboom!!!
i know the feeling when the oppressive heat is almost unbearably but the Biggens keep committing to a certain jig over and over again. We spend so much time to be in a position where everything falls into place and we are putting slabs on ice one after another. So when 100 plus temps try and stop us we ignore common sense that is telling us it’s too hot to be fishing today. Just remember to drink plenty of water and I use an electrolyte supplement called Drip Drop to try and prevent hand cramps.

Congrats on the fish and the raise!!

Bon Temps!!