Active night after the rain

We had a good bit of rain overnight Thursday in to Friday morning. Finally cleared out about 10 am and I began to think about wetting a line after work. After 2-3" of rain, I wasn't sure how the bite would be.
I pushed off from shore at 4pm, with air and water temp both at 68. Bit of a breeze, but the water clarity was not as bad as I expected, although it was stained more than usual.
I clipped on a pearl colored split tail from Bobby Garland along with the Stoll'r and the curly tail grub I've used on this water recently. Thanks, Pico lures, for the tip of white baits in stained waters; it shows on the "Featured Guests" forum as the last question posed when he did the live Q&A a while back.
Anyway, that pearl lure would stay on the entire trip as both the bluegill and crappie wouldn't leave it alone; it was clearly the lure of choice on this trip. Here are a few pictures of what came home with me.









Here is that last one on the ruler, big fish of the night.



The difference in the bite between the 'gills and the crappie was something last night. The crappie bite was very light while trolling, just a little twitch of the rod tip while moving along while the 'gills would practically rip the pole out of the boat. I made it a full night, fishing right up until 7pm before pulling in the lines and calling it a night.





I kept 16 nice crappie, from 9" up to 13", with most of them 11-12", along with 8 big bluegill. I stopped keeping the 'gills when I realized how good the crappie bite was going to be. I tossed back a couple of smaller crappie, maybe half a dozen or so. Bluegill?? Too many to keep track of, easily 25+ went back in for another trip; I was busy all night long and loved every minute of it!