Lake McIntosh 6-19-23 beating the rain !

Today was supposed to have been meetup day with my fishing buddy , but Mother Nature threatened to soak us so with a lull in the rain this morning I took off to Lake McIntosh, a county water reservoir.
I took three combos with the plan being I’d catch ten fish with one before swapping out and in the end decide which I liked fishing with the best .
I started off with a 4’6’ St Croix Premier ULM paired with a Shimano Sahara 500 FJ and 2# Floroclear.
I caught my first ten fairly quickly using the micro spinner and thought my thirty would be easy , although most of the catches were small potato chip size . :)
Next up was a black 5’ St Croix Triumph ULM , one of the first made in Mexico, paired with my Shimano Soare BBSPG and 2# Floroclear . The extra six inches makes for a better feeling rod , although both were casting the lightweight spinner 40-50 feet , most casts .
It took a little longer to catch my next ten and to catch something I felt picture worthy with my last one being a small crappie .
Next up was a 5’6” St Croix Triumph ULF , that feels more like a moderate more than the other two rods . It too was paired with a Sahara 500 FJ and 2# Floroclear.
The 5’6” took a little more effort to cast the micro spinner until I swapped to a 1/32 Roostertail and it came alive .
I first tried a chartreuse roostertail and swapped to a white/red with silver blade before I started getting a few hits . I hooked and lost a couple of crappie before getting one in .
That’s about the time it started sprinkling and a couple minutes later I could hear the rain coming from across the lake .
I just made it to the car before the heavy rain arrived.

I forgot to tell which combo I liked using the best .
The 5’ St Croix Triumph with the Shimano Soare BBSPG .
It had the best all around feel. And the Soare is smoother than the Saharas

Nice combos and catches…

You had a good trip and dodged the rain too. I fished three times this weekend but got my butt severely wet on Saturday morning. So you did something I couldn’t get away with—-stay dry! Some good numbers and nice looking fish. Numbers like that just make a man smile. I changed the reels between the 5’6” and the 6’, putting the Soare on the 5’6”. While it didn’t cast as well as the XT on that rod it did cast better than it did on the 6’. The XT cast real good on the 6’ , better than the soare does but the line is newer and stiffer. One way or the other, they both do a good enough job for me and the bluegill aren’t happy about it.

Great job beating the rain

Good job, nice catches. Love the smell of rain when it comes.

Some good fish on nice setups!

I enjoyed the read and pictures, thanks !

Heck yeah!:ThumbsUp another good day:biggrin

Nice, and the smell of rain can be really good, especially around here right now.
Bob

Nice catches.

Regards


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good times it seems , congrats and KABOOM

I’m with you guys on the smell of rain. I like the smell better on dark brown farmland dirt than on this sandy stuff we have down here, but I’ll take what I can get.