Thread: It just gets better.

We’ve all done it.....caught the genetically mixed bluegill. Well today I experienced something that was a first for me. I found a bed that had shellcracker.....mixed gene sunfish....northern strain bluegill.....and redbreast....all in same big bed. While the majority of these fish were around the 8 inch mark I ain’t one to leave biting fish to find bigger fish......at least not until my fun time was up....then I might go hunting bigger game. I stuck 75 of these mixed bag of sunfish off the bed at the base of the tree you see in some of the pics. After I did that I decided to do a little side scanning to see what I could find. I got lucky. I stumbled up on another bed of shellcracker! When I told myself I had to get home I had stuck 50 shellcracker off the bed....most 9-10 inch fish. The fish today were heavier than what I got into the other day.....just a thicker fish. I used the Fine Tail Banshee Area Trout Rod Super Ultra Light 6 foot model again with the 2.1# test ester mono and a 1.5 gram jig head....sometimes with a #8 hook and sometimes used a #6 hook....and a Sow Bug colored Trout Magnet. To say I had a ball is an understatement. Once again I had to leave biting fish.....I didn’t want to go but had to. I have been very blessed this spring. Video will follow in couple of days.

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It is getting better! I went today and sore lipped a bunch also. That first Cracker picture is a nice one, wide and long. I have caught two of those species off the same bed, Red Breast and NS Bluegill. However, that usually happens on the June Full moon spawn when the waters are even warmer than they are now. I am assuming the mixed dude is the barred looking one without the red spot on his opercle. That is actually a pretty looking fish. I couldn’t get a hit on the TM or the Bead Head jig today, went to a Lunkerhunt Grub and started getting bit. The Corto and Triple Cross are the seeing all the Gill time, then I pick up the X-Ride and it feels like a telephone pole after using the others. I like them all, and plan on switching some of the lines now as the fish will go a little deeper with the warming waters. I am not fishing the cold weather/ cold water shallow creeks anymore! Look forward to the video, as always.