Post By: Milehighfishing      Posted: 6/14/2012 8:31:06 AM     Points: 190    

Haven't been able to get on the water for the last 3 weeks, which is a shame since I live less than 5 miles away from Chatty. Tonight though I was given a chance to run down to Chatty with the Kayak for a quick 2 1/2 hours of fishing. I was on the water at 6:45 and landed two eyes before 7:15, first one came in at 15", the second at 19". Fished until 9:15 with a total of 6 fished landed. I was trolling one line with night crawlers the other I tried a 5" trigger x leech (worthless), all my fish came on the night crawlers. Maybe I wasn't tolling the leech correctly... ?

Out of the 6 fish landed, 5 were eyes and one surprise. I grew up in the Midwest fishing small ponds catching panfish and bass until I graduated from college and moved out here in 2001. I don't believe in the last 10 years of living out here that I've caught a bluegill (never really fished for them). I broke my gill drought though as my 5th fish was a healthy 8" gill. Surprised the heck out of me and kinda reminded me of my old haunts picking up hand sized gills with bobbers and worms.