20160728-GLADWIN, MI SUCESSFUL PATTERNS 2 DAYS IN A ROW... CPR'ed

20160728--- I had such great success on the 27th we’d thought wed continue with that streak today.

We found hot sun calm winds and mid eighties water temps at the launch. The hot searing sun was going to be tough to get thru in the jon boat. Sometimes it seriously becomes an oven.

We picked up where we left off the day before with a bite but the fish were significantly smaller in size and quality. I showed a couple in the collage for size comparison.We decide to come back later as the sun settled down.

It gave us time to investigate some areas with the sonar. We found many fish at large weedy points extending to abrupt drop offs in deeper water. Testing the bite with dropshot, jigging and slip/float/waxie rigs we found many good bites with a few gills over 9” mark but smaller eater slot crappies.

As the sun set behind the treeline the bite became significantly better producing another bonus channel cat on the slip/float/waxie.

Connor was in training on the “dock demon” spinning rig and was tagging some nice 8” class gills with the slip/float/waxie chartreuse in color. Chartreuse became the hot color in the waxies and finding that is the case during the hot sunny weather.

By the end of the afternoon and waning sunlight the edge of the grassy point became the productive spot with nearly a 2 fish a minute pace with the 2” power minnow being one of the top producers as well as the 2” Apex swim tail in purple.