A really "Crappie" day

My good pal Jay Kocan just bought a new house on one of the freshwater lakes in Virginia Beach. He wanted to paddle it, so we launched from his yard and went looking for some sweetwater pullage. Crappie was the fish of the day, Jay used his fly rod and I used jigs.

Most of the fish were small but still fun on ultra light gear.

Jay with a scrappy crappie.

There were also some hungry bass in the lake.

Jay fly casting from his Native Ultimate 14.5 the best flatwater kayak available!

My biggest crappie of the day, I caught him vertical jigging around a downed pine tree.