Crappie Birthday Striper

[hambone]

Well wasn’t sure where to post this so y’all can move it if you want. Yesterday 3/30 my wife kicked me out of the house so she could get things ready for my birthday dinner😁 so me and the old man went crappie fishing..... well we went in back of gills and spider rigged for couple hours with only seven dinks to show for. So we decided to change tactics and jig some blow downs. Well about my third cast I seen a fish flash my jig, I told dad That a monster crappie just missed my jig( so I thought) I immediately threw back in the same spot and this time the flash connected, about a 24” looking striper, he doubled up my little ultra lite pole and pop came unbuttoned.... ha ha never had that happened before(catching striper on small crappie jig) so soon after stripers came up breaking beside boat and it was on. We put down crappie poles and started throwing bucktails and Ended up hanging into five only boating three, a 24”,26” and a 34”. After a while the action died down so we went back to the pitching crappie jigs at blowdowns and cAught three more stripers, boating two of them. 22” and a 21”. As long as I have fished sml never have I had this happen😆😆😆 it was awesome. Great start to a great birthday 😎😎

Oh yeah and water temp was 54 ish and lure preference was a 1/32 ounce jig head with a BG electric chicken.. fish caught in blowdowns right up on the bank