01-22-2014, 10:00 AM
Chris (Tenncrappie) was gracious enough to take an old retired guy fishing today (me) and we were fishing for bluegills, at least that was the targeted species. Lots of current in the river up Dayton way, but we stuck it out. <br /><br />The area that Chris had been catching them in was almost void of fish today. We did get 2 crappie and 1 bluegill from that spot and then we moved around looking for fish.<br /><br />It took a while, but we finally found some active fish. We caught everything too. Of course, I had to catch a drum right off the bat. Then we caught yellow bass, largemouth bass, 1 shellcracker and several bluegills. Chris was using nightcrawlers and I was using a 1.5 inch chartreuse Southern Pro tiny worm with a wax worm attached. <br /><br />I wanted to take about 20 bluegills home to clean and put in the freezer. Took home 16 gills and 1 shellcracker and 3 crappie for a grand total of 20 fish. emoBig
The bluegills ranged from 8&quot; smallest to 9.5&quot; biggest. Missed a TARP gill by 0.5 inch. We threw back the smaller bluegills, but there weren&#39;t that many. We must have caught 15 yellow bass. <br /><br />It was a fun day of fishing for me. Chris used the spot lock on his new I-Pilot and liked it. It did a really good job of holding us against the current. We fished the mouth of a creek or slough, rather, and I don&#39;t know the name of it. They all look alike up there where we were fishing. The fish were in a little eddy just off the river channel in the neck of that slough entrance. It took us a while to figure out how to drift our baits right into the area that they were in. You couldn&#39;t cast directly to the spot or the current/eddy would take the bait away. emoBig <br /><br />Take me again, Chris and when you are ready for some lower end crappie, I&#39;ll more than be glad to take you. emoBig emoGeezer
The bluegills ranged from 8&quot; smallest to 9.5&quot; biggest. Missed a TARP gill by 0.5 inch. We threw back the smaller bluegills, but there weren&#39;t that many. We must have caught 15 yellow bass. <br /><br />It was a fun day of fishing for me. Chris used the spot lock on his new I-Pilot and liked it. It did a really good job of holding us against the current. We fished the mouth of a creek or slough, rather, and I don&#39;t know the name of it. They all look alike up there where we were fishing. The fish were in a little eddy just off the river channel in the neck of that slough entrance. It took us a while to figure out how to drift our baits right into the area that they were in. You couldn&#39;t cast directly to the spot or the current/eddy would take the bait away. emoBig <br /><br />Take me again, Chris and when you are ready for some lower end crappie, I&#39;ll more than be glad to take you. emoBig emoGeezer