First Fish of the Year

Hard to believe less than a week ago there was still ice on all the lakes but after a few days of super weather the lakes were thawed and I had to go fishing so I headed over to Butler County State Fishing lake on Saturday afternoon with my Coleman Crawdad.  Was a slow start, snagged a couple shad with a jerk bait as well as a couple small crappie - decided it was still too cold for even the jerk bait so I went to a Strike King bitsy tube and worked it really slow along the creek channel. Bites were pretty decent actually, missed the first couple strikes because they took me by surprise!  Finally got a couple in the boat before it got dark and man did it feel good to get the first fish in the boat for the year!