Thunder storms ....

[Ketchn]

Bought got hammered a few times and then it became clear it was time to go ,these types of summer ish squalls move right fast and furious in these parts .
got lightly rained on twice and then the light show on the next storm and its quick approach made us say this about that , we got more fish in the box than we want to clean and it's been 2 1/2 hours of overcast, cool and cloudy ,with a nice slight breeze for the most part ....(dont get much better) btw ...
fisheez were on fire at every stop from 4 fow to 20 fow and could care what you pitched at them ....
so lets run it to the rampola and get out a dodge before it really hammers us.
here are the particulars of said excursion , first fish to the boat was a channel cat ...
Lots of ditch pickles and a few bream came to hand as well in the mix on regular basis at every stop , not a terribly high number of small throw back crappie fish in the mix ,maybe around 50 % toss backs and used lots of different colors and jigs ...
THEY would NOT touch a black jig though ?
Used a fixed float on the flats in 4 to 9 fow , fish liked the jig moving and or dancing a bit , ran a 1/16 in the deeper water no float and a 1/32 under the float .
Iced 20 for me and the captain of said trip kept 16 ....would have probably been lots more fish if my buddy H could have gotten dialed up , but he struggled hard for some reason to get bit ?
all in all it was really nice not to sweat it out , it was 90 something when we headed out and when we got there it was in the high 60 to low 70 range .
KABOOM is the word yawl ....

[Danny Lang]

Nice fish there ketchn.

[MCG1]

Ditch pickle? Good excursion, smart to get out before the light show lit ya up!

[SuperDave336]

Fun times. Nice box of groceries.

[Jamesdean]

Great job on dem dar fishes. dang sure 'nough some nicens...Great wright up too. KA-BOOM!!! My friend. I can fish in the wet stuff, But when them there electric bolts start dancin' around, I'm outta der my friend. No sir, I'm not gonna be slinging around no lightnin' rod.. nope, ught-ugh. nope not me....

[Ketchn]

Ditch pickle? Good excursion, smart to get out before the light show lit ya up!

bass

[BobC]

Nice catch. Sometimes a big drop in the temp can trigger a good bite.
Bob

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Awesome outing

[DockShootinJack]

Nice catches. I do miss those intense evening storms that used to roll in off the Gulf. They are few and far between up this way

[Rojo]

Thunder rumbles here and the bite shuts down, I don't bother to go the day after a big electrical storms roll thru. Interesting read my friend.