This last weekend my daughter Sharon, her husband Billy, and I spent a rainy weekend chasing big Crappies and hoping to find some big Bluegills as well.
First let me again express my thanks to everyone for the thoughts and prayers for Billy. Last fall he found he was dealing with cancer again and spent the winter going through more Chemo. He did very well and is clean and healthy once again. It was wonderful having our Billy back in the boat once again!
I was surprised to see the water temps were 66 when we got on the lake last Friday. The cloudy rainy weather dropped surface temps a little over the weekend. It was also very windy which made boat control and presentation a little challenging at times! The panfish were done spawning and had already started to scatter. You’d find a few here, a few there. We never found any spot where you could sit in one spot and pound on them. So we kept moving and found plenty of action. Presentation was simple, a small jig under a bobber. I was using my 4 weight flyrod and throwing small streamers. If anything it seemed that brightly colored jigs worked better than darker colors. Chartreuse, Yellow, white all produced. We found quite a few Crappies in the 12-14 inch range with a couple reaching 15 inches.
I’m looking forward to a day on the water when I’m NOT getting rained on.
Rootski
Looks like another great trip. Glad to hear the son in law is feeling better.
that was one of the greatest weekends we’ve had in a long time. I already went to Fleet Farm and picked up pair of knee high rubber boots like yours. 
