Thread: Little rods for little fish

I got an opportunity to fish lake McIntosh again this morning.
It was 79 degrees and sunny when I left the house and windy . A west wind 11mph with gusts to 22mph . It was 88 when I got home around 1:30 .
A great day to test ultralight equipment. Not !
I took a couple of my St Croix UL’s , a 5’ Premier ULM , paired with my Shimano Soare 500 BBspg and my 5’6” Avid ULF paired with the Soare XR 500spg . Both with 2# Floroclear.
I started out with one of my new jigs made with #12 streamer fly hooks and tungsten beads . A black Bobby Garland Itty Bit Swim’r was the plastic used .
The ones I made before were brass . The Tungsten makes a big difference. I was casting 50-60’ into the wind with low sidearm casts .
I fished with the Premier for the first hour , then switched to the Avid for the next .
Total catch today was thirty-two with twelve of those being crappies .
I tried monkey milk color without a fish , switched to black/chartreuse and caught fish almost as good as the solid black .
Both rod combo were a lot of fun even with the small fish .
I had to hurry one bluegill in when I had another good size bass trying to eat it .
This lake has a good population of 4-5 lb bass .
A fun day even battling the wind.