You know that feeling on your hands?
When you've handled alot of fish and they feel like sand paper. I absolutely love that feeling. Went today with my mom Karen and my cousin Matt. Hopefully some of you will meet them at camp. We put in on the Pomme end today and caught alot of quality fish. Started out at 16ft of water and picked up some big females right out of the gate. Matt had one up and it gave him the big boy turn as we got a long hard look at him. He looked real nice until he swam away. Hit the next tree and caught several more.
Then the people started to show up. Bass fisherman everywhere. Some of those guys are just idiots man. I know one guy is gonna need a lower unit and another is gonna need some patch work done on his glass I would say. Not to mention I feel like they get a little to close to me. I know were going after two different fish but, manners are manners and when I'm 15ft away from the bank dipping tree's I feel like its rude to go between me and the bank. (Just sayin) I gave them a sarcastic comment, he apologized and that was the end of it. Fished coves off the main channels and all fish were about six feet deep in 20ft to 6ft of water. Some females were spending their eggs and some were so full they looked like dog ticks. Biggest went 14 and it was a female. I plan to buy a good set of digi's just to see what she does weigh. Will she lose some weight if she sits in ice over night?
Caught several fish that I would put at lbers or a little more. We all used a 1/16 bugman special, sickle hook with blade on. If you didn't use the blade you didn't do as-well, Matt and Mom switched quickly once I was up on them by around 10 fish. White and chart was the color. Might head back tommorow depends on the weather. If its bad may go try and get me a big tom, or a bearded hen for that matter! Its been a pretty tough season.
New goal 16" crappie by December 30