Originally we were going to have "Senior Citizen Saturday" however the weather did not cooperate. Instead we headed to a local checken joint and got some hot wings.

It was however renamed "Senior Citizen Sunday" and I was able to get my dad and Brian in the boat for some crappie fishing. I would be a fool to think that I could go out and fish and enjoy 99% of the lakes on a holiday weekend however, I do have one little gem that I save for just such an occasion.

Mill lake located close to Cassidy Lake and the Cassidy Prison and not too far from the town of Chelsea is an electric motor only lake. There isn't much of a boat launch there and zero dockage but we can get Brian's boat (my old one) in the water with little issues.

The wind was a bit strong in the early evening but we were able to find several large schools of blue gills. Unfortunately, this lake doesn't have much size to gills. They were hungry after the storms and were destroying minnows. Thankfully, Tab's bait and tackles version of 2 dozen minnows is more like 6 dozen. Brian and my dad battle back and forth calling names to the tiny little gills as they took minnow after minnow and tail after tail of soft plastics.

I however didn't have that problem! Over the last couple of years, I've been doing some testing on a specific way to fish. For whatever reason (that I have not come up with yet), I just cannot get this method to produce fish! I will have an article on this shortly.

Anyway, after the sun went down, I was able to find a mound that came up to 7ft of water. It had grass and lillies on it but both sides of it sloped to 12 feet. This mound is no bigger than two or three boats side by side. Using the trolling motor we slowly worked around this sunken island. Minnows on aberdean hooks seemed to produce slightly better than jigs and minnows. Dad and I did some real damage on some good sized crappies. It took Brian a bit to dial in the depth but once he did, he also got in on the action.

I didn't count but I think we threw back around 30 crappies that didn't make the 10 inch minimum we set. It seemed like many fish were just under that. The 10 fish that we did keep however were much larger with most of them being 11 to 12 inches inches in size.

We did see several small boats come and go but never had anyone closer than 150 feet from us with there trolling motors going. I did wish I would have had some lighted bobbers or a light on board as I really think we could have done well after dark. At any rate, it was a good evening on the water with some nice fish thrown in once we found them.

Sorry for no pictures but I simply have not felt like taking many these days.