The rain finally let up and I got to put the tube on Athens on Sun. Fishing was a little slow, maybe due to the rain. I also noticed that the lake seems to be weeding up earlier than usual. Places that are usually clear seem to have a lot of vegetation and I never see it this early in the year. Got a lot of dinks yesterday in the 4-5 inch range but I did manage a fair number of decent gills:





Most of the gills were suspended and either hit a baited jig head on the fall or went for a worm under a float and most of them were hanging around the shade. No redbreasts on Sun but I got 2 or 3 shellcrackers. I also got a small warmouth which was the first one I have ever taken out of Athens. Really pretty fish with dark colors. I used to catch a lot of them in a lake in VA when I was stationed there.



In addition to the sunfish I also hit a few of my crappie spots and found a few fish still shallow around the boat houses. Crappie hit Bobby G Baby Shad in Bluegrass. The crappie were all nice fish in the 12-13 inch range.



All fish were released to fight again on another day. Cheers Y'all.

Nice variety of fish Flags. Love those Bluegill SLABS! Good job.

Nice post and fish as always Flags.

Nice fish Flags. Good job. Gonna be missing those Athens post.

Very nice Flags...Athens must be a heck-of-a good bluegill lake.