Party time or a weeks worth of precooked meals mighty tasty looking either way.

Mm Mm Mm looking good.

Good deal. I haven't been since December  myself either, but barring any unforseen circumstances i'll change that next weeked. I've usually fished every weekend at night for striper starting in March, but cold tempps , ice storms & floods have kept me off of the lake so far this year & i'm about to lose my mind. 

Could not take it any longer and decided I would do some brown water fishing today.  Started out throwing some new Chinese cranks that I recently painted and wanted to make sure they traced straight.  Both tracked great.  One of them looked rather strange (very thin across the top but wide across the bottom giving it a very slow but wide wobble not unlike a wiggle wart).  Any way I tested two baits and decided it was time to fish.  No crappie came to hand but the bull gills were on fire.  Caught at least two dozen keepers and kept 8 to take home for the wife (she would rather eat bluegill than anything that swims).  Star of the day was a 2.5 inch swim fry green with a chart tail.  A purple with chart tail did well also.  I suspect that the gills were simply out racing everything else to the baits.  Suckers were really slamming it.  Hard to be disappointed but maybe next time if the water clears up.

You’ll probably get a fish smaller than the bait hit with no problem. But hope you get you personal best.

I have been known to whack some 12 inchers on a 13" ribbon tail ledge fishing