Good Night Turned Bad Turned Good Again

Could not find the keys to unlock the boat...Bad night already and it was only 6 p.m....Back to the house, good thing it's close. I find the key and head back to the lake and launch the rlm.

Yesterday I lost a decent fish on a spinnerbait right near the launch. I cast my tiny brush hog near the same spot and immediately felt the familiar thump, I set the hook on a real nice fish. Same fish? Who knows but I was glad I was able to boat it. Good Night again

My second fish came ona spinnerbait right off what else? A windy point. Now if I had a nickel for every time someone told me spinnerbaits on windy point produce, I'd be rich, Take the same nickels away for all the fish that were never caught on a spinnerbait on windy points and I'd owe money. Again just happy to land another fish.

I rigged up my son's rod with a baby brush hog in the same color I was using and he also connected with a fish, only this guy was much smaller then the previous 2 caught, Again, my son was elated just to be catching fish with dad.

My son then hooked into something a bit different...my Shimano scorpion attached to my St Croix rod. Ploop, right into the drink. Yikes!!! Local security guard tried to yell over but it was too late. I motored over to shore seeing as we were pretty shallow about 6 feet deep, stripped down to my shorts and took a swim, I found the rod but not before stepping on a very sharp piece of glass cutting my foot open pretty deep.

This counts as both Bad and Good.

We continued to fish with the little guy hitting one that was well over 3 lbs, this one was hooked deep as he had no idea the fish was on until the rod was almost jerked from his hands. Great fish great smile. Line cut fish released.

We caught about 6 or 7 more fish with most being good quality fish. The bite was on from beggining to end and we both wanted to fish more after dark, but it was bed time and work has to be done tomorrow. Pictures at a.b.p.f

I checked into the Priest for a couple of hours last night, bring five bass into the boat and of course the "one that got away" was quick released at the side of the boat, straightening out my hook. Why I still use those cheap BPS hooks is beyond me. Anyway, that was the one fish that I was counting on last night and she appeared to have gained a little weight since last year. She's my pet, and I usually catch her once a month off of the same laydown.

Here's my bad night experience that actually wasn't. Everytime I'd move the boat to another location, it would was like there wasn't enough power to get the boat moving.After a few long seconds though, the boat would pop right up and go. Well, on the way back to the ramp after 2 and a half hours of fishing... I realized that I never screwed in my drain plug! The boat never felt loaded with water except when taking off... and wasn't sitting low in the water. Guess it has more floatation that I thought. I've seen boats sink because of this...

Hows the foot? Have you had a tetnus (sp?) booster recently?

Sounds like it was a fun night - fish wise....

Jim

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:06:32 -0400, "alwaysfishking"