Hit a small local lake Saturday early in the morning before the heat turned o n.
Started off slowly pulling jigs and minnows under a slip bobber while using the electric motor. It wasn’t long and it became obvious while doing zig zags, when the speed increased on the outside rig the minnows would get hit. The hits however where short only to have the minnow robbed. After experimenting with the speed and after losing a few more minnows it was time to change tactics on the finicky finned critters.
Armed with 6lb mono sporting a #5 Black Gold floating rapala tied to the end, the 25hp Merc was fired up. Trolling the set up approximately 80ft behind the boat turned short hits into rod bending action. I figured my rapala was running 2-2.5ft deep. The areas targeted were around humps and along drops in 5-8fow.
The set up caught at least 20 white bass in the 10-11inch class, 2 short walleyes at 14inches, a dozen cookie cutter crappies (5 of which became sandwiches), 1 fat perch (sandwich also), and 2 cute little ski’s that put on an awesome aerial display I’ll never forget.
With the sun beating down from high above and the heat turning up it was time to get off the water and head home around 11 o’clock. It was hard to leave with the bite still on but I hate heat, summer sucks 
It was a short day on the water but the action was fast after finding what the predators in the water world were looking for.
Good luck fishing people 
YUM- – jerr
