I took a few vacation days leading into the long 4th of July weekend.
I decided to give Crystal in Ellington a shot about 6 this morning.
I had 2 solid blow ups on a large Buzzjet top water but both fish needed glasses and missed the bait.
Going deeper I threw a keitech and a drop shot and had some short largemouth and some rock bass for my efforts.
Out in 25’ of water I marked a fish next to a Boulder and sent the ds down and the fish thumped it immediately.
I came tight on a solid fish that fought very well and turned out to be a decent, although rather scarce, Crystal smallmouth.
This would be the best one for the trip, but the boat ran great and it was good to be back on it.

The parking lot at Crystal is small, with about 8 trailer spots, and 6 were filled with passenger cars without trailers. Some were long distance swimming and some were sharing a boat out fishing. 6 am on a Thursday and the lot was almost full…. Not cool, they need a non trailer parking lot.

Here’s the smallie slapping me in the face and finally behaving.