Float tube panfish frenzy 4-25

[Michael Thompson]

I met andy at the lake for some bluegill and crappie chasing all day. the weather was alot nicer than predicted so we went to "work" looking for those big pannies. I brought my vexilar fl-18 flaher out in my tube for the first time, it worked great! I found weeds on a break from 5 to 7 ft and the nice gills were there and a few perch. unfortunatly tons of hungry yearling largemouth bass too that I cannot seem to keep of my hooks.
We wanted to get some crappies but only got one in the area so we decided to try in the middle while snacking, but no crappies there, didn't even mark one. kicked over to the east shore after snackin and started getting a few in 2 ft of water along with a zillion dinky bass. we went into a bay on the southeast end to get out of the wind and cha ching! found the slabs and lots of bluegills too most real close to shore. Andy had to go, I decided to stick around when fishface showed up with his daughter for the evening bite. Glad I did because the crappies really lit it up with a bite on every cast! Baits I used today Gulp!fishfry, JRs ringin stub grub, t.h.e. jig tipped with a exude microshad, berkley power tube 2"white.
More here, tons of pics:
http://mtbucket.blogspot.com/2009/04/panfish-tubin-action-4-25.html

[Jeff Bernier]

Great report I went to you blog and left a comment also, those pictures real tell the store.

[Michael J. Searl]

Nice report Michael!! Your pictures bring out the comfort of the tubes we use. Thank you for sharing. ole Mike

[Paul Bissell]

Reading this makes me wish I didn't have to work this weekend so I could have been out fishing. ;-)