Not so hot bite, 7-20

Took a solo trip last night to one of my local ponds to see if I could find some action. I got to my fishing area and first line in the water about 5:45, air temp at 83 and water temps about 81.
The first 15 minutes brought me 3 small bluegill and by the time I ticked off my first hour I had boosted that to 5, with only 1 pumpkinseed worthy of a hero shot. Right around 8" and hard fighting, way above his weight class; I thought I had a bragging fish on.

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With my trolling the weed edge not producing, I tried Walt and Rich's method of letting the wind blow me down the basin as we had quite a lot of wind last night on the water. It would get stronger as the night wore on; I'd hoped it would slack off but nope. I'd get a good hit after a bit, this nice perch that slammed the Roadrunner and snapped me off as I was getting a grip on him; good thing he was in the boat when it happened.
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I'd get 3 more like this over the course of the night with the last one nearly pulling my rod overboard he hit so hard.
The basin wasn't producing so I turned around and headed back toward the landing, moving back over to troll up the edge, into the wind. I'd get a few more small 'gills, nothing picture worthy.
By 7:30 I was about ready to call it a night. The sun had been gone behind the hill for a while, I was tired of fighting the changing wind and I still hadn't caught a crappie. Finally one rod went over hard and the first crappie broke the surface and in to my net. A nice 10"er. In the next 10 minutes, 2 more would follow, an 11" and a 9".

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That would be it for our favored species tonight although I kept on with my trolling for a while more. I did have one more solid take and as I grabbed that rod and pulled my arms in to reel it in, I felt a head shake, then a solid movement in the other direction and my line snapped. I'm quite sure it wasn't a crappie.
Frustrated with the wind, I called it night at 8 and headed to the beach for real. Total for the trip would be maybe 10 small sunnies, 3 crappie and 4 decent perch.

Nice catches! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us

Nice catches and pics. The wind can be frustrating at times. Thanks for sharing

Good times glad to see you try the drifting method. Keep up the good times. Tight lines.

I like the drift method in the wind myself. Works well. Nice catch. Those pumpkinseed fight hard. I love catching them. I caught a couple the other day myself, no crappie that day unfortunately for me.