I fished a “Kids Fish, Too!” trip today with a family who preferred not to be identified.

Summary:

Area 667 – 7 sunfish on bait/slip bobber

Area 116 – 1 white bass via a flatlined Rip Shad

Area 999 – 5 white bass, 1 crappie, 1 largemouth via flatlined Rip Shads

Area 766 – 4 white bass, 1 largemouth, 1 bluegill via jigging with TNT 180’s in 3/8 oz.

Area 769 – 30 white bass via smoking TNT 180’s in 3/8 oz.

The children had played out by around 11:30, our traditional 4-hour end time for children’s trips, but, the wind and sun conditions indicated more fish could still be caught.

I headed back out after our trip concluded and tried one more area we hadn’t gotten to today, Area 770. I fished there just briefly and attempted to land 10 whites, which I did, before heading out to look at other potential fish holding areas. The bite was about over by now, however (noonish) and after failing to graph fish on several more areas, I packed it in.

TALLY = 62 FISH, all caught and released.

Today’s Conditions:

Start Time: 7:30a

End Time: 12:00 noon

Starting Air Temp: 74F

Water Surface Temp: 72.0F

Wind: SSE9 at ~160 degrees, slowly increasing to SSE16 from the same direction by the trip’s end.

Skies: Overcast to 100%, but steadily brightening until the sun finally broke through around 11:00am