Morning trip, 6-11

It's been difficult to find time to get out and wet a line but this morning the stars were in alignment and I hit the water about 8:15. Air temperature of 61 and the water out away from shore was 72. Had a light wind from the North with mostly cloudy skies when I started out trolling 3 lines. Had the first fish in the boat within a couple of minutes, a hard fighting largemouth about a foot long. He fell for the Roadrunner with a Southern Pro stinger tail.

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Not too long after releasing the LMB, I tied in to the first of many pumpkinseeds, nice ones of about 8" or so.

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There was quite a bit of loose grass and other debris on the surface which made it hard to troll without fouling the lines. I gave up the trolling after a bit and went to single pole cast and retrieve with a few different lures. I worked the water over the submerged weeds and the action picked up nicely. The Road runner saw the most action at first, accounting for a good bunch of bluegill of all sizes from 4-8". Hooked and landed a bigger bass with it, too; gave me a nice fight but I came out on top. A bit over 14" for this one.

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5 successive casts with the same lure earned me 3 bluegill in the 8" range along with 2 crappie, both between 10-11".

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The wind slacked off about 10 and I had calm conditions for the next hour. Took me a while to realize I needed to switch lures as the Roadrunner was no longer scoring. Clipped on a Tennessee shad colored Stinger and the crappie really took a liking to it. I found a good group of them and landed 5 in the space of about 7-8 minutes. Biggest one was just over 12" on the ruler but I fumbled the camera and missed the shot (too blurry, I deleted it).
Wind came back up some, this time from the South and when it did, the bite shut down and I called it a day about 11:15.
No pickerel in the boat today but pretty sure I had a good one on the line, giving me a strong fight before breaking me off. I rolled him over out away from the boat and am pretty sure it was one of those toothy critters. Did land a nice 10" perch, too.

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Totals for the day would be 3 bass, 1 perch, 14-15 sunfish and 8-9 crappie.
It sure was a nice feeling to be out there again, even better with some nice fish being caught.
Probably won't be out again for a while as I have some things coming up that will take a lot of my time after work. Hope I can sneak in a short trip here or there but I'm not counting on it for the next month or so.

Thanks for the great report.

Great to see you on the water again. Nice trip with outstanding results. Keep up the good times. Tight lines.

Great mixed bag

looks like good times to me , a really nice mixed bag of fish , congrats

Nice catch. I have wanted to catch some blue gill but we don't have them here. I bet they are a blast. Good job keeping the New England board alive. I tried a couple of times this spring to post but I can't seem to load pics anymore.

Great job and I'm happy you posted.

Alan