20160907—short trip between t’storms

20160907—using Minutecast on the Accuweather app I timed a small trip with the kayak between showers and t’storms. I would fish a close somewhat productive gill location on a stretch of weed and wood shoreline. I was only thinking on taking the slip/float/waxie setup but ended up packing the spinning/vertical jig/Lil Minnow rig also.
With mostly cloudy skies, upr 80’s air temps, mild winds from the south and mid 70’s surf temps I started a slow drift parallel with the weedy shoreline. A huge algae bloom was in progress also.
The slip/float/waxie was cast into small open pockets with very little bite activity. After 15 mins of no fish I started throwing the tiny jigs (Spring Cricket and Lil Minnow) into the openings with immediate tagged fish. The Spring Cricket was getting bit less so I stuck with the Lil Minnow twitched along the weeds or twitched in the open pockets in 6 FOW.
I was surprised the pink Waxie was largely ignored thru my initial shoreline pass. I tossed the slip/float/waxie setup out there and let it sit while casting the spinning/vertical jig/Lil Minnow rig… it was ignored... they preferred the jig over the gulp bait today.
Timing an upcoming t’storm I headed back to the launch a satisfied angler… with (3) 9” class B.Gills tagged and CPR’ed on the short trip… well worth the effort.