Haven't heard much from here lately so my dad an I made a day of it. Didn't start out all that well when I show up at our meet spot 5 minutes late and he's not there. Quick call at 3am and 10 minutes later we're rolling to the lake.
On the lake around 5:30, breezy, an hr later first crappie. Over the next 5hrs after hitting a couple different spots all we had to show were 2 small cats and a 2nd crappie all caught by the old guy. The wind died down, changed direction, picked back, died, repeat a couple times making fishing how we wanted difficult.
Finally at 11:30am he ties into his 3rd crappie and I'm skunked and thinking about heading home when it happeneds. A bite!!! Well dip me in honey and throw me too the lesbians! Get it landed and my second pole goes. We mark the location and start working. Ended up with 9 landed and a couple that won the battle.
But the most enjoyable catch was tying into a 5lbish cat with a UL rod and real and 2lb test. At one point the pole was wrapped in a nice bow and 3 eyelets deep in the water but held together.
With the exception of the first fish all were caught in 14-20ft of water at 6-12ft. No idea what the water temp was. No flotilla, all past the second set of bouys after the first catch. No eggs.
