So I find myself back in Athens for the Mother's Day weekend. Me and Mrs Chief don't have any kids other than the cats but I still like to do nice things for her on Mother's Day. But Mother's Day isn't until tomorrow so I loaded the tube and and hit my beloved Athens. Fishing started off a little slow because it was a cool morning but as soon as the water warmed up a little so did the gills. As usual I was using a piece of crawler on an small unpainted jig hook. This was the first fish of the day, a nice plump fish of about 8 inches:



In the first place I hit I got 4 or 5 fish total with the first fish being the biggest. The rest were in the 5-6 inch range. So I decided to hit another spot that has always been really good to me. On the first cast I stuck a decent bass under a boat house. I managed to get him out from under the boat house and prepared to do battle. I was using a 5 1/2 foot rod with 4lb line and a 1/64th oz jighead so the odds were in the fish's favor. I had him on about 8 or 9 minutes and lost him on the 3rd jump. I'm guessing he was between 5 and 6 lbs. But it was fun. The second spot also held a really good pod of fish:





The last fish in those 3 pics was the big bluegill of the day. He went just a whisker over 10 1/2 inches and was really fat. After fishing out the second place I moved one more time and found a place that didn't have a single gill to be caught but it did have a bunch of shellcrackers. Got about 15 or so of them and they were all about like this fish:


All told, Athens did me good again. I got around 30 or so sunfish including some really good ones and got to mess around with a decent bass. All fish were released to fight another day.

Cheers Y'all.

Those are some real beauties...isn't it great to be back on your home lake !

Those are the ones!!

Looks like they are bedding from the dark bellies. Should be soon for Fork.

Looks like some fun was had today

WTG Flags ! What a Beautiful variety of colors on those fish! You gotta love it!

Plus #1.


Side Note: Great post and some nice slabs. Good job Flags!

Love those Athens Slabs. Nice post and fish and as always thanks for sharing.

Solid post and solid fish. Good job Flags.