Launched at dawn, cloudy yet calm morning. The plan was to try for crappie.
We motored back into Indian Creek, went into a cove that a buddy of mine had caught some crappie in a week ago, and we diligently fished with various crappie lures and caught zero crappie. Meanwhile top water striper activity was getting going, it was easy to ditch the crappie stuff and start chasing stripers.
We started chasing down the blow ups, easing in on a low trolling motor setting once we got close to casting range. Sometimes we'd get close enough, sometimes they'd move before we got there, but the fish that wanted that top water really got after it, they'd keep hitting it until they were hooked. We were using walk the dog type baits, I had a Yellow Magic Havana and my buddy was throwing a Spook.
We caught 8 stripers that ranged between 5 - 10 lbs., we released them all.
Once the sun burned through the clouds, the stripers stopped. We wasted some more time in pursuit of crappie, and tiring of that, we spent the last hour fishing for smallies, we caught a half dozen of those on 3.3 Keitechs.
Surface water temp was 77 when we left at noon.
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