We get to the launch and it looks like its going to be a great day. I bump him in, jump in the boat and we are off .. anticipation abounds.
Well, it was almost two hours before we caught our first fish, but that's OK as we covered a bit of water. For the most part we were throwing jerkbaits, 100mm in length. Brian decided to downsize to a 90mm jerkbait and that's when we got our first fish. I had jerkbaits hooked up on two rods, one deep diving and one that was between 4-6 feet. We got one here and there for a bit and then we thought, let's downsize again, so I went to a 78 mm jerkbait.
Well from 11:00am to 3:00pm we caught 65 fish in total, all but a few on the 78mm jerkbait in water that was between 9 and 15 feet.
Now those of you that have read my previous posts know that I'm really just a bass guy who occasionally/begrudgingly catches pike and other species, but on this December 10th, it didn't really matter. We caught two or three pike, one that was a significant size for that body of water and the rest were split pretty evenly between bass and crappie .. including a number of 13.5" crappie, a 14.5" crappie, numerous largies between 2.5 and 3.5lbs and a kicker of 4.8 lbs.
It was a great day on the water .. plowjock... you da' man!
Now plowjock took pictures of my first crappy, my 13.5" crappie and my 14.5" crappie and my 4.8 lb largie. I on the other hand seemed to have "thought" the camera was taking pictures when I "took" some of him, but ... oops .. sorry buddy!
