Fortunate to have been a Federal employee(now retired 7 years) that has always enjoyed the lower weekday traffic, one of my favorite Crappie fishing day was President's Day(mid-February). Yesterday was a true example of fun times catching/releasing/keeping nice specimens from my long-distance relationship with the broad-shouldered, linebacker attitude specks from the St. Johns river system. Slight uptick in weekday boat traffic due to the Holiday pass, but still enjoyed another absolutely beautiful sunrise and Florida weather/wind scenario. Various single-pole techniques were used(always best in keeping well-tuned) with float/fly, dock shooting, vertical jigging, casting traded off to keep things fresh. Hand-tied hair mini jigs(untipped/undipped) were baits of choice on skinny 3 lb. JDM ester line except on the 10' rear-seated rod that is spooled w/6 lb. All methods produced well but personally I prefer the feel the "tick" when casting the skinny mini arsenal. Species caught were l/m, bream family, crappie, Bowfin (3 lbr.). Water temp. @ daybreak was 67.8, end of day 72. Presidential Ball was attended mostly by black-suit/tail-tattered males with some nice-sized ladies in the box. Kept 21(black Jacks?):Rofl More released than kept that were sub 11" rs. If you haven't been tempted into the skinny-tackle challenge yet, I caution you to think twice or more about the attempt to kick it up a notch by downsizing your landing net!:yikesAttachment 366560
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