We went to a spot I know of that generally holds quite a few different species and decided to fish there.
I ended up catching 2 OOS Bass..a smallie around the 2lb mark and a Largie around the 3lb mark so we decided to move on...
We moved out about 75 yds and the finder just came to life! Walleye everywhere!
However, no matter what we threw out or used the marbles didn't want to play!
The perch, pumpkinseed and crappie did though!
Which is good cause this trip was all about the kids!My daughter got bored and decided to just be content playing with the worms and touching the fish that were caught. My son was much more dilligent!
Unfortunately he had broken his rod just prior to us going out. So we had to let him use an adult rod. We tipped it with a worm and let it sit. Bless his little heart did he ever go banana's whenever something was nibbling his line! No he was using my dads ultra floppy uglystick! So needless to say, unfortunately my son didn't manage a hook-set. But he was more than happy to keep trying!
My wife and I kept catching crappie, pumpkinseed and perch. I even managed 1 good pike! But like I said the kids aren't impressed with big fish, they like little fish as they can hold them. SO we let them put everyone we caught back! There was a fight over which one of them got to release which fish!
I locked into a nice crappie and my son decides that he does not want to put it back, that he wants to eat it and that he wants to show his "Grandma" and "Grandma H"....(My grandmother is visiting from the UK right now)
So we get back to the dock and as soon as he gets off the boat he goes bee-lining for the door with "his" crappie! He even ran into the house with it and it was flapping around!
I filleted it for them and the kids had a nice snack of fried crappie....
My daughter could not stop talking about the trip on the way home and my son happily dozed off on the car ride home....
I can't wait for the next time we go out!
Here's my son with "his" crappie....too cute!
