Near fishless afternoon

Yesterday I spent the better part of the afternoon fishing a large strip mine lake.
The surface water was a warm 80 degrees. It had a greenish cast to it. I first tried a wide shallow bay fishing at 4' - 5' . The few fish I had marked on the sonar were between 4' to 8' deep. I managed one girl gill in the bay and moved on. I caught quite a few bright colored males by setting the float to a little over a foot and tossing up against the shore in weed openings . I am troubled that all these males were only around 7". I can only hope that the large males have finished for the year and have left the spoils for the off year class.
I covered a lot of water both shallow and deep with very few markings of fish anywhere. I did get one more girl gill on a large 10' deep flat before giving up the day. I had only 2 in the basket that I turned out before leaving.
One of the jigs I fished was a black orange kiptail 1/80 that I just never got around to trying. For some reason there was a full row of these and a row of brown/yellow that I had not tried in one of the boxes. The one I used yesterday done as well as the black I had on the other rod . I'll have to fish these on a better lake to pass judgment.
The weather couldn't have been better and almost no breeze .
I wish all a safe and enjoyable 4th. Give pause for all those in the service that can't be here with family and friends for the 4th .Attachment 208132Attachment 208133Attachment 208134

Good report Mike

Nice report. Pretty fish.


Regards

Thank you for the report my friend. Glad you got out and caught some fish.

Great report - killer tyes.