Thread: Avoided the skunk, 8-18

For a while there, I thought I was going to strike out completely. Poor weather and some other circumstances have kept me off the water for a bit. We had a pretty good thunderstorm this morning but the weather guy said it was going to clear off and be nice this afternoon and for once, he was right!
As the front moved off, the humidity went with it, the sun came out as did my friend the wind but I was itching to fish so off I went. I picked a smaller pond that I hoped would not be too windy and it actually wasn't bad. Air temp at 74 when I launched just at 5, water temp about 75.
I've fished this water often in the past and have done well here but not tonight. I went an hour and a half before I was able to land a small bluegill to break the skunk. A small perch got a hole in the lip and got off before I could bring him over the gunwale a bit later. Both came trolling, found nothing casting edges. Finally, I had a brief flurry of action and managed 3 crappie in the space of about 20 minutes. Well, it seemed like a flurry after the slow conditions I'd endured earlier. All 3 about the same size of around 11" or so.







I'd poke around for a while more, landing a couple of small bluegills before calling it a night at 7:45.

Beautiful depth of color on those Blacks. Congratulations and thanks for sharing