I was lucky enough to get out and fish for about an hour and a half this afternoon. Started off by throwing a zoom minnow and caught 1 crappie. Switched to a Chart and purple CM and caught the biggest crappie I've ever caught. She was 14 inches. Caught a couple more on a white CM. Caught 6 total and only 2 keepers. Probably missed as many as I caught.
A couple of questions. I used the CM and caught the big one under a float (actually under 2 TM floats
). Caught the others by reeling without a float. Obviously I should have a bigger float instead of using 2 TM floats but I used what I had. Is it better to jig a CM or use under a float? Does it just depend on what's working?
Since using UL tackle starting back last fall I have missed a lot of fish. Does the UL tackle and 2# test have something to do with me missing fish or am I doing something wrong? I've always seemed to be decent setting hooks until this UL stuff.
Tonight was also my first experience with actually filleting fish. It did not go very smoothly and ended up with chunks instead of fillets. Still tasted good though. Let's hope I can catch enough to get better...