Got some! 10-6 trip

Today was a perfect New England early fall day so I pulled the plug a bit early at work and hit the water. I just had to, it would have been a crime to miss out on such a nice day after the recent stretch of poor weather we've had here. I launched at 3:40, air temp at 70, water at 61 and very little wind. Bright, sunny skies with a few high fair weather clouds. We're even getting a bit of color for the fall foliage, too.

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Tossed out the first line and as I was reaching for the 2nd pole, the first bent over hard. An 8" plus 'gill to start things off; just as I was reaching for him he gave a hard shake, got off the jig, finned me, bounced off the gunwale and dropped back in to the water, all in the blink of an eye. Heck of a start to the trip! Soon landed a nice 10" perch and a couple more nice sunnies.
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I moved out in to some deeper water, 22-25' and found me some decent crappie. I landed a bunch tonight, smallest at 10", largest pushing 13", most of them around 11" or so, really nice fish compared to what I have been catching on the few trips I've made this year. Here's a few of them.

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Most of the 'gills I got tonight were very nice, 8"+ fish for the most part, similar to this one. Hard fighting and eager to snap at my offerings, what's not to like about that?

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The bite dropped off about 6:15 and I called it a night about 6:30 or so. Had a nice moon coming up over the trees, too.

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All told, I ended up with perhaps 15 nice crappie, about the same or a few more for bluegill's, 3 perch and 1 small bass of about 10".

Super awesome report and pictures. Thank you for posting your outing.

Some nice ones

Awesome report and pics, thank you so much.

Great outing and some fine fish. Keep up the good times. Tight lines.