Thread: A Good Morning For Gills

Another week of afternoon obstacles, mainly Mother Nature’s fault with wind and rains here in E TN. The one evening I could go and the weather was halfway decent I had to take care of the yard chores. Oh well, this morning the Old Girl gave us a break and I cut a trail to the lake so fast it would make a fish swimmy headed. Greeted by a slight but steady West wind I probed several known beds with little to no luck, so just continued on my usual Milk Run until I stuck a nice male and the fight was on.
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Today’s lure of choice was a Bead Head jig 1/24oz tipped with a Berkeley Power Wax Worm. This combination was deadly, and cast like a little bullet on the Corto with the Ester line.
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I did throw the Trout Magnet some but the fish seemed to be a little deeper so the added weight kept my bait in their faces a bit longer. Anyway, a pattern started to emerge, and the total fish count was well over 50 before long, with the majority of the quarry about average/medium size. Always fun to hear the drag squeal. Good keepers were scattered, even found some in hiding in the shade of deeper docks, bushes, and steep bluff faces.
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The sun was getting brutal and the lake lice were crawling out from the wood work, it was time to go. I brought a couple dozen of the better ones home and released the rest.
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Girth and length of today’s keepers was average for public waters in E TN, and perfect size for the plate.
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A good morning for catching Gills, get out there if you can, they are still biting!


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Congrats on your catch.....pretty fish. With that fluoride coating on ester it does cast a long way. Was hoping to get one more trip in before my surgery but with the weather it’s not looking so. So keep the posts and pics coming.....need something to keep me going....LOL.

Regards


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