The title sums it up. The goal of the day was to put some meat in the freezer and it was a success. I went out with a friend from work that has been using my spare Vexilar for a while now. He mainly fishes for trout so this was a change of pace for him. We hit the road late this morning after sleeping in until close to 6. We were in no hurry to get after the fish figuring that they bite all day!
After making the long drive to the our destination, we unpacked and started blowing across the lake! The wind was whipping and as it turned out the fish weren’t biting very well. We punched a ton of holes over a large area that the fish usually move through. We covered various points, turns, and depths. After freeing our butts off until noon we called it morning. We were able to catch some fish but only had a few in the bucket when we packed up.
As we cruised to the next spot, we “cooked” our food on the defroster making the day a whole lot better! The second spot only sweetened the pot for us!
I took the auger and made a grid like pattern over as big of an area as I could without infringing on any one else in the area. As we started working through the holes, the bite took off slow. Once we hit the start (or end) of the school it of crappie was on. The fish were not moving fast and the were super active. When the whole auto zoom on the Vexilar is lit up you know you are in a good spot.
We were both pulling slab crappie and perch as quick as we could get out jigs down. We were both running red tungsten with white plastics and the key to our success was a maggot to top it all off. The majority of what we were keeping was perch as we were trying to throw back the big and small crappie, only keeping the good eating size ranging from 9-10″.
The end of the day arrived when we realized that we had some serious cleaning to do around 4 pm. I had a kept 29 fish at the second spot and 38 total on the day. Looks like some good eating in the near future!
Big perch of the day was 13.5″ and 1.25 pounds
The bucket weighed 2.25 pounds and the total weight for the fish was 25 pound 5 ounces
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