I spent yesterday (Monday) visiting with one of my former teaching buddies……on his Mississippi Backwater dock…..because he said the fish were biting. And they were! In about three hours, we caught 60-70 bluegills, ranging in size from 4″ to 9″. We also managed to find half a dozen perch, the biggest was 12″. And we landed about the same number of largemouth, but most of them were small. We had decided that we needed 16 for a good meal, so, when Mark brought in the last gill, we packed up our gear, went up the hill to clean them, and visited a bit more. Oh, we had the best luck using a 1/16 oz jig tipped with a chunk of crawler, about 4′ under a small bobber. The wind blew our rigs across the 4′- 6’flat just a short cast from the dock. The fish were near the bottom, scattered throughout the flat. Just a fun afternoon, catching a meal while we caught up on our retired lives. There was a bass boat in the area, carrying two duffers older than us. They had caught their limit of gills just out of our casting range. It looked like they had been doing the same thing we had done…..they were just a bit less selective than we were.
September 22, 2015 at 3:31 pm
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