Steve and Jerry and Jerrys friend Jeff go fishing
The three of us decided that today would be a perfect day for a quiet, relaxing fishing trip. I picked Jeff up at 6 am and then Steve and his boat at 6:30 and headed down I-69 for Coldwater. We launched about an hour later and headed to the spot where we caught some crappie two weeks ago. We tried both shiners under bobbers and cast/ retrieve jigs and plastic but caught just one small crappie that we threw back.
Our second spot we anchored up and fished bobbers for a bit then Steve made a decision fitting the guide of the year and we started long line trolling. We were using 1/16 oz jigs, Steve tipped with a shiner and me and Jeff with Charlie Brewer Sliders in natural colors. Grey/ glitter, brown/ glitter and green ghost. They would not touch bright colors.
On most passes we would pick up a couple fish and had some passes where we would put 4-6 in the box. We caught mostly crappie but also got some real nice perch and a few bluegill and sunfish. Most of the crappie were in the 10" range with Steve taking big fish honors with a 13 1/4" slab. Full disclosure; it's the only one that was measured so we had to give him honors by default. Jeff did such a good job with the net that he earned the title Designated Internet Net King.
We didn't count how many we kept but I figure we cleaned about 6 gills, 10 perch and 40-50 crappie. Steve has some pictures that he will add later.
