Another breezy trip last night
Temps yesterday were in the upper 70's with a steady breeze but I decided to test my luck and headed out to fish after work. With that temp at this time of year I just had to. Water temp was right around 60. I had a better attitude about the wind, too. Getting dark as early as it does, it was a short trip, about 90 minutes on the water actually fishing.
I did some testing and playing around with waypoints and navigating back to them for a while. That's a feature I don't use much and wanted to get more familiar with how it worked. I kept an eye out for schooled up fish while doing that and when a school was located, I'd drop down the jigs.
I went right to 1/8 oz. heads to start, with a BG threadfin color shad on one and a SP 2" crappie stinger on the other, grey smoke color. I did not anchor at all but did short drifts over the fish, then pushed back over them a time or 2 and then moved on to a different place. Not ideal I know, but I was experimenting a bit. Jigging with both poles at the same time.
I was able to see both jigs easily on the real time sonar so could see where I was in relation to the fish nicely. I landed 3 crappie total, all about 10" or so, lost a couple more. 2 on the shad, 1 on the stinger.
Since I don't jig with 1/8 oz. heads too often, it took a bit to realize how they (the poles) feel "pre-loaded" when being held still. All 3 that I landed took the bait UP and released that pre-loaded weight so my pole felt lighter. Once I realized that, I set the hook. Add another tidbit in to the old noggin to remember on another day. So not a real productive day in terms of fish landed but more experience to call on on some other day in the future.