Happy Spring!
If you live in the northern hemisphere, you’re well into your spring season. And if you’re like me, you’ve been too busy to get outside much, let alone go fresh water fishing!
But I did have some free time this past Sunday. So I hopped online and bought my resident fishing license and finally got to go fishing with my sons. We went to our local creek and had some fun catching lots of sunfish or “sunnies” as we call them. Most of the fish looked like a cross between a redbreast sunfish and a pumpkinseed sunfish. They all had very brilliant orange bellies and their upper coloring varied but was usually a bluish-gray color.
I didn’t get a picture of one (I’ll include one next time we go) but they were fiesty and very hungry!
I used my trusty old Hildebrandt spinner and caught a fish on my 3rd cast! I’m not sure why the fish like spinners in the spring – but I do know that the spinners work best this time of year! Here’s a picture of my spinner:
So we had a fun, successful and wet trip (I got my feet wet trying to save my younger son’s tackle box!) to start off the new freshwater fishing season.
Hopefully all of your trips will be successful throughout the year!
Catch you later!
I’m not sure what you use this spinner for but it’s my favorite rig for great lakes perch. Hooked on a double rig like a crappie rig but fished as a flicker by shaking the rod. We tip them with mousies.