Thread: Beautiful day on Murray

I joined Don on his boat today starting out from his dock. We long lined out into Rocky Creek trying to coax a Crappie into the boat. We got further back into the creek and a nice Striper hit one of Don's jig and a lengthy battle ensued. Somehow he managed to work that fish around and through numerous lines and we netted him. He weighed 6# and gave Don quite a workout.
We ran across to Hollow Creek and fished there until 12:30. I picked up a Striper on my ultral light on a 1/32 oz jig. Of all the rods to hit, that one took me forever to land, then he wasn't big enough to keep!
We did pick up 3 nice Crappie and must have gone through a scool of perch as Don had 3 on at one time.
We were able to get both Stripers and all the others in the boat without tangling......except one tiny perch. That small perch managed to tangle about 5 of Don's line before we could get him out of the water. The largest crappie weighed 1.75 # and the other two were about 1.5#.
Absolutely beautiful day to be on the water with no wind for most of the morning.

You can see how tiny the jig is relative to the fish. It's a 1/32 oz replica of a HalFly I used years ago Stumphunter tied up a batch for me.