Thread: Wednesday redemption

After getting almost skunked Friday, I went out yesterday(Wed 16th) with buddy Jeff in his boat. He bought an HDS7 touch screen like mine from Brian at BBG Marine and wanted to try it out. We put in at Koon's Landing (Murray) like we did for our get together a couple of weeks ago. It was so foggy you could not see 20 feet ahead so Jeff used his GPS to just idle out to 30 FOW where he had marked fish earlier in the week. We just drifted there (running light on!!) and jigged Flexit spoons on the bottom. We started picking up good size perch right away. I also had the 7.9 ozs. of left over minnow from last Friday so I put one rod out with minnows.
We continued to catch perch with the spoons out fishing the minnows which was hard to figure, but sometimes jig out fish minnow for crappie. We never got out of sight of the landing, sorry Ofish and Big Dawg. (they rode all over the lake looking for us last time out).
After catching several nice perch on my jigging rod I had a hit that darn neared ripped the rod out of my hand. Jeff had caught and released a Striper of about 18" a few minutes earlier, so I thought that is what I had, but this dude had an attitude and was bigger than any 18' Striper. Fortunately I had just put new braided line of my President so I knew if I was careful I should be able to land him. He ripped off several runs and I tightened the drag as much as I dared. Finally I got him to the top and Jeff netted what turned out to be a Blue(I think) Cat that went around 15 lbs. on my scale.
Later I got a Channel Cat around maybe 2 lbs. We did not keep any fish but we sure threw a lot back.
Jeff was experimenting with different color spoons just to try them out. He put on a red and black one and must have caught a dozen small stipers around 6-8 inches. Don't know what it was but they sure like that color. I never got the first one on my blue spoon, but the cats liked it.
So now Harry has talked me into going with him tomorrow. Will be interesting to see what effect this change of weather has on the fish.

Here is the blue cat.

This was a perch with very poor aim. Got him right between the eyes.

this is the channel cat

And Jeff with one of many nice size perch