Thread: Weekly Meetup 9-06-23

I met up with my fishing buddy at our favorite shellcracker boat ramp this morning around ten .
The weather to start was nice , low 70’s partly cloudy skies . Very little wind .
I got there about ten minutes before my fishing buddy showed up and by that time I’d already caught six little green sunfish of various colorations on a purple hand-tied jig .
I took three rods with me but only fished two of them .
First up was my 5’6” St Croix Avid ULF paired with a Shimano Soare BB 500spg and two pound test Floroclear line .
The other rod was a 6’ Abu Garcia Mass Beat iii UL , also with a 500 size Shimano Soare BB .
Both rods cast my hand tied tungsten bead jigs 45-59+ feet .
I like using the tungsten because I can create a smaller jig that has enough weight to cast with my UL’s .
Even with my size 12 streamer hooks with a 4mm bead that I use with a mini trout magnet casts 40+ feet .
I caught thirty total fish , most were small , but were enough to make this old man happy .
The temps shot up pretty quickly and since we had little wind and no shade we near the lake , we’d took a break wherever we could find a shaded spot and cool off and sat on our fishing stools and talked.
My buddy caught 21 , mostly green sunfish. BTW Skeet , my fishing bud said thanks . He caught fish on his first two casts with one of your jigs . Then he lost it .
They’ve started the fall/winter lake draw down already , and the plan this year is to drop it an extra two feet to allow work on the dam .
Fun day , catching little ones .
One of my favorite catches was what looks like a shellcracker/green sunfish hybrid .
And a couple of the bigger ones