March 04, 2005

Morning:

Headed over to Sullivan and "The Tullibee Hole" at about a 6:15Am. I was surprized to see about 5 Trucks and traps on the spot. I figured it was a good sign for the Whitefish. I parked a little South of the Pack and drilled. I was marking suspenders about 10ft off bottom almost immediately but they wouldn't bite. Eventually I got a 8" Crappie. I then nabbed a solid 10" and missed a couple more. The fish seemed real finicky and I didn't think they were tullibee. I put down a Glow Demon and maggies; It didn't take long and I had brought up about 6 Bull Bruggers (bluegills) between 7.5 and 9"'s yes 9 inches. I don't know what they were doing suspending out in 23 feet of water but they were. I think I caught about 11 total and only 3 were below 7inches. WoW! I did nab an occasional 8" Crappie and whacked about a 2.5lb eye on a Fat Boy and maggies. I wanted to take a pic but the camera batteries were dead (It's always something with that thing).

As the sun got higher things went perchy and then petered out and I think maybe a tullibee or two came through, but I didn't get any. The one group I talked to didn't get any either. I did some hole hoping and it was mostly perch with a couple of so-so gills. Got one more Bull out of my original holes and then I headed in.

Afternoon:
Got out later than I wanted too, due to listening to BASS results online. Got out about 5PM and the Crappies were not around at first. Same two guys from yesterday were out at "The Hole." I decided to drill some new holes and discovered I was farther West than I had realized.

When I got back from drilling some Crappies had moved in and I nabbed 6 ASAP no keepers. Then they were gone so I went to my 2nd set. There I caught them sporatically with 3 that I kept 2x8.75" and a 9.25", my 3rd set gave up nothing and they basically did not hit after dark yet again. That was that!

Maybe I'll get a pick in here of all the dudes before I clean em.