1st chance to fish in three weeks!!!
1st chance to fish in three weeks!!! Illness and passing of my Mother-in-Law have kept me off the water. I went to Lake Washington (Mississippi) this morning and fished from 7:30 till 4:00. Wind was a killer with whitecaps where I was trying to fish. The bite was way off. I didn't catch a fish the first 2 hours of fishing and kept trying different color RR's and jigs. I couldn't even get them to hit the old standby Bobby Garlands (tried about 15 different colors of them). I was digging WAY down in the ammo box but finally got them to hit a 1/32 oz head with a very small tube jig injected with nibble (had to try about 10 different colors of those before finding "the one"). I was bouncing the jigs off the bottom in 10-14 FOW. By the time the wind finally beat me down I had caught 36 Crappie but only kept 18. They were running very small for Washington and there were only 6 fish I kept that you could really call a "slab". BTW....if the weather report states the wind will be 10-15 I think you can safely add those two numbers together if you are going to be on the water and figure on 25 mph for the average (at least this time of year). It was a fun day but a whole lotta work.
