.As the various fishing seasons open up I got out for a little fish with my wife on a back lake north of Kingston.
It took a little while to find the school but when we did we had a blast. All fish were returned to catch another day.
The big thing was to give the SoftLock culling clips a test run on Crappies, and I was very surprise how well they work.
Yes this is a bit of a product plug post but it is my own design that I have been working on for the last two years, and now I am ready to bring them to market.
In two hours we caught 6 pike (1 to 6lbs), two perch (one was a fatty) a few rock bass, two large mouth bass (around 14″), and a couple dozen crappies most were close to the size in the picture which is nice to see a healthy school.
As the weather warms the water the bugs will start hatching and the Crappie will school around the reeds and stems looking to feed up for their spawn.
