Great Day On The Lake

My dad, Sonny, got a new boat Tuesday that he had been wanting for a while. We took it down an put it in the Lake yesterday. We had fun breaking it in going after the crappie.

Using ulta lites and a black 1/16 horse head jig with a bottom spinner, along with chartreuse curly tails, we caught 25 crappie. The total weight of the fish was 42.14 lbs. I'll take that avg. any day.

We caught most of them in around 12 feet of water at different levels of that depth by varying the retrieval speed. Slower and deeper seemed to work better.

The only draw back was the action was the hottest at the hottest part of the day. We got on the water around 1:15. Between 2 and 5 pm was when we caught most of them, but it was worth it.

With the moon phase where it is right now, it is a peak time to be out fishing.

I hope to be able to be back down this week end.