What a morning. Unreal.
As I mentioned yesterday, we were due for another major cold front this morning and it showed up big time. Heavy duty NW wind and much cooler. 40 degrees when we left the house. The rain held off until about 10:15 and until then the fishing was insane. No trolling took place.... no need to. We hit a fall dock that has always done us well and it didn't fail today. The crappies were deep and we simply vertical jigged 1/16 heads and 2.25" small fries, clear/party crasher glitter with chartreuse tails. We went from there across a wide bay to try and get out of the wind and found a couple pontoons still on the water and behind them was a steep hillside that runs right into the water and continues the steep descent where 10 feet from shore its 20 feet deep. Really radical shoreline. The wind was better in this spot and so was the fishing. Numerous doubles were had and the crappies ran into the 13" range. It was crazy good fishing. We ran a drift thru an area maybe 75 feet long and in that distance, we'd catch maybe 20 fish per pass. Crappies, sunfish, white bass, channel catfish and sheephead, including one huge brute, all fell to jigs and plastics on a day that by all accounts should have been a total dud.
But when the rain hit, everything slammed shut and the bite went from super to zip in 15 minutes. We'll have fresh fish tonight or tomorrow night.
