Fishing Report

[Ping]

Left out of K dock Monday evening and went downstream a couple of miles looking for crappie or bass or whites or whatever would bite. Hoping to avoid thunder and lightning, but didn't mind the rain if the fish would bite. Caught a little bit of everything. We had 4 walleye (no keepers, one just short), 3 big crappie (13+"), 20+ white bass (all males), several good sized green eared sunfish (or whatever they are called, the ones with the big mouth) 1 smallmouth, and several LM and kentuckys. (various sizes from 9" to 3+ lbs, probably had 7 that would keep)

Caught the majority on small plastics (swimming minnows, sliders, etc) Before the rain came had to work them real slow, after the rain started - they wanted them as fast as we could possibly reel and the funnest part was after the rain and the lake was slick - caught several keeper sized bass on small topwater lures. Real fun evening on the water. Total fish probably 35-40. Total hours fishing 3 1/2 hours.

Water temperature range - 58 degrees to 61 degrees

Had the boat in 20' to 35' fishing mostly 6' or less

Ping

[Sam]

That's a great report on a great trip - thanks. It's sure fun when fishing is like that.

The proper name for the sunfish you were catching is "green sunfish", but everybody around here calls them "black perch". They're one of my favorite fish because they're always hungry, they put up a good fight, and those little filets taste real good. Too bad they don't grow to 6 or 7 pounds - if they did, I think everybody would just forget about bass.

I put an 8" mark on the handle of all my spinning rigs. If a black perch, bluegill, or goggleye measures 8" or more by that mark - into the live well he goes.