Big M Area, August 2, 2012

[Quillback]

Jeb and I were inspired by Bill's reports so we were pulling away from the dock at 0545 this morning. We picked a few up early in shallows off a point downlake a couple of miles from Big M, using 10" worm and a Gene Larew Salt flicker (I think that's the name). I had a couple of hard pullers come off the big worm, just could not keep them pinned. That bite shut off fast and we spent the rest of the day running to points and fishing off the ends in 20-25 FOW. Not a hot bite but we ended up with a dozen spots (a few right around keeper sized), a short walleye, (JEB got a keeper sized walleye right to the boat, but it came off before we could net it), and a nice 14" crappie. Got them on Drop shotting Zoom finesse worms and Cabelas and Hopkins spoons. Last fish came around 1030, and we were loading the boat at 1115.

[jeb]

Yep, thanks Bill. We had a fun morning. Wind picked up pretty good around 10am or so, otherwise we'd have been out of there sooner.