Hey Guys....Walt & I were at it again today. Launched around 7:50 am with the first fish in the boat by 7:57 am. Not a bad start! Air temp was 63 degrees to start out with a consistent water temp around 75 degrees. When we pulled off at 2 pm, the air had risen to the mid-80's with a southerly wind of around 10 - 15 mph.
Although it was a very light breeze to start with, the wind kicked in before 9 am today, affording us a very nice drift pattern. Here's what the "chop" looked like around noon:
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Just about ideal conditions for our fishing presentations. We ended up the day with 47 fish. 35 crappie, 11 bluegill and one dandy of a rainbow trout which, you will see, Walt nailed. We marked fish just about everywhere. They were one or two here & there only and about 12' - 15' down over the 23' bottom. Bait balls were strung out as well. No heavy concentrations on either fish or bait.
It is our observation, that it pretty much didn't matter what you had on your line. As long as they saw it.....they ate it.....deep & hard! Just not as many around as in season's past. Walt eluded to that in a previous post response. If I were pressed, I'd say that the color black/chartreuse and blue/chartreuse were top contenders for first place. However, an "electric chicken" SK Joker netted me 8 nice fish, both crappie & bluegills. Sliders were hand down the most prolific plastic style.
Here are some of the shots of our fish from today:
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We called it quits about 2 pm as it was getting pretty warm and we were just about pooped-out. A Fine day on the water by any standard.
