After looking at the forecast for today and seeing "winds light and variable," I was all in for a fishing trip!

The morning started out cold... 23 to be exact, but the wind didn't blow and the sun came out and made fishing very comfortable.

Well the Striper Capital of the Universe lived up to its hype at my first stop. I boated 4 of them and had 3 keepers. The biggest two were around 8.5 lb a piece. It was quite the tussle on 14' poles, but they proved to be too much for the line sides and I was successfully able to avoid any tangles!!

After 2 hours with no crappie bites I pulled lines and made a run. Didn't take long before I hooked up on my first crappie of the day, a 1.9 lb buck fish. I stayed in one little stretch the rest of the day and managed to catch 7 and lost another 3 that I'm certain were crappie. It was slow going, but I wasn't sure I could find anything better so I stayed with it and beat out a mess of fish.

Best color today was pink and fish were caught 12-14 foot down in 12-20 FOW. Tightlining was the method of choice today. Water was pretty dingy but fishable in the Little River arm and the water temp was down to 43 degrees. Things should pick up in the coming weeks.