As much fun as it is to get together with childhood friends on opener the enjoyment of spending time on the water with my favorite gal Kellie just might have made weekend #2 even better!
With way too much going on lately for both of us, our window to get out on the water together before June was only a few hours on Saturday evening, so by the time we pulled into the cabin at just before 5:00 there was no way the ominous weather conditions were keeping us off the water. Besides judging by the radar on my phone all the rain was going to just slide on by to the West right?! 
We hit the water at 6 PM and made a quick run to some deeper water on the north sand that I suspected would be holding fish… With 20+ mph winds using 1 drift sock we were able to get set up so that our drift speed would be .7-.8 mph which allowed me to set Kellie up with a crawler harness (or fish jewlery as she likes to call it 
) while I was still able to rig using a 10′ snell and leech. With only a couple hours to fish picking a speed that gave us a chance to test two patterns at once would allow us to quickly hone in on what the fish wanted to eat. Well as it turned out the pattern that we quickly established was that Kellie was on fire no matter what she was using!
Although this was Kellie’s first time fishing a crawler harness she’s obviously a quick study as no more than 30 seconds into our 1st drift while I was still explaining to her how to “feel the bottom” she was already reeling in her 1st fish of the softwater season! While both blades and rigging put fish in the boat all of our box fish in deeper water came from Kellie with the crawler harness. By 8:00 she already had her limit and was working on mine 
At 8:00 with heavy cloud cover the daylight was fading fast and since the wind had been screaming from the South most of the day conditions were perfect for some slip bobbers on the North shore rocks… However, seeing as someone had been too busy netting Kellie’s fish we didn’t have any bobber rods set up and ready to go 
so it was on to plan B as we decided to give cranks a go instead. We started our first pass at 8:15 and again no more than 30 seconds later before she had even gotten her black/silver Rapala SSR #5 all the way back Kellie was reeling in a keeper ‘eye! The next hour and a half were pure action as I continued to net Kellie’s fish and even managed to catch a few of my own 
We finished the day boating 15 eyes with mulitple bass mixed in. Kellie handled the rain/wind like a champion and ended up with first, biggest, AND most fish as well as almost filling the box for both of us. Needless to say it was one of those days where I was more than happy to be outfished by a girl 
Not to shabby on the breakfast either 
