I had a partner in the kitchen by 4am ready to go hit the water. The rare sighting is the wife sitting in the front of my boat 
Every time she goes she has a great time but it doesn’t happen often.
While the FW was painting her toes, reading a book and taking in the sights on the water, my job was to put a fish fry together. Trolling was the ticket just a few days ago and on this day, the 4th of July, the Original floating Rapala was once again the key to catching keeper size crappies. It started off slow but once the change was made to a #3 Purpledescent bait it didn’t take long to start putting scaled critters on ice.
These fish by no means seem to be stacked up in any certain area and covering water is the only way to keep a bite going.
By 9:30am the sun was starting to cook any victims left out in the open and it was the first complaint that came from the front of the boat 
With plenty of filets in the cooler the Merc was taken out of trolling mode and lit up. After a few laps around the lake to blow the carbon out of the motor and to keep the promise of a boat ride, we were loaded up and heading for cover by 10 o’clock. I sure am ready for his heat to go away 
Hope everyone else had a great 4th and stayed chilled down!
Good luck fishing people 
Have you tested Marianne with an emergency drill in case you get hooks stuck in your fingers? 
