2-12-12

well went to lake brittle only 77 acer's grew up fishing that lake , i was just fishing from the bank today with a buddy from a couple catfish clubs  Vince he meet me out at the lake i was already just walking onto the Pier when he pulled up before he even got to the pier i had thrown the cast net and caught about 70 little "candy shad " shad that are 5 inches and less i through most of them back except for about 20  after re tying some rigs we got cut the tails off of the candies and put them out whole got my 3 rods out and Vince's 1  it was spitting a couple snow flurries which is almost like deer hunting in the snow its just amazing well after a while we began to fish for crappies while we were letting the shad soak  had a big bite on a 1 in crappie jig think it was either a bass or a walleye crappie in that lake are not big at all and that fish had some weight on it after that we reeled the rods up and put fresh bait on and got them back out about 2 pm i called my buddy Brandon told him he should come up so he gets a ride up there and it starts to flurry again i said what the hell did you bring the snow with you for ? now mind you this was after a good few hours with no snow and sunshine he shows up it gets Grey as hell and starts to snow  so he walks out on the pier i was checking out his new reel he had got as he was putting a sinker on his other rod when all of a sudden i heard my clicker go out zzzzz    zzzzz   zzzzzzzzz and then stopped Vince had just finished packing up to head home when this happen i picked the rod up didn't feel nothing set it down 10 seconds later zzzzz zzzzz zzzz  i picked it up felt the fish and set it , knew it was not a big fish  when it came to the top i said damn its a mud cat because i saw alot of yellow on the belly then i saw the orange i said damn that's a big ass yellow perch ! it ate a whole 5 in candy with the tail cut off you can even see the bait hanging out of his mouth in the pic the perch ended up going 14 inches and 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 lbs    20 seconds after i threw the perch back i looked out towards the points i said damn that looks cool with all of that snow blowing across the lake  then it hit us and it was white out condition's it was nuts ! wind blowing 40 mph it was snowing so hard i could not see my truck in the parking lot 40 yards away we packed our shit up and hauled ass back to the truck the temps just plummeted i could not believe how hard it was snowing through our shit in the bed of the truck and down the road we went all the back roads were covered in 1/4 in of snow in 10 minutes or less made it home safe  but had a damn good time and an interesting one to boot here are a few pics     

Vince and i

the only catch of the day on shad wish it had whiskers but at least it was a nice perch

a picture Vince took from his truck right before it got really bad you cannot even see me and Brandon on the pier