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I was beating around town yesterday evening and got to thinking about some old retention ponds my dad built in a commercial area about 15 years ago. Figured I'd check to see if they held fish. Oh boy...
Flathead Candy!! rigged a little split shot rig and went to work like Gepetto in the whale. 10 minutes and I was done.
Kinda small, but good enough for limb lines. Went home, had dinner, and picked up my first mate. She's really embraced life as a river rat and ran the tiller while I set some lines in the mouth of a little lake that dumps into the big river.
After a good night's sleep and some coffee, I rode her back out and put her to work hauling fish.
25.6lbs. Her personal best flatty! Filled a 5 gallon bucket about halfway up with pretty little catfish nuggets. I don't usually eat fish that big, but I committed to a fish fry next weekend and it's been kinda slow. Hard to find shad and the bluegill bite just turned on here.
I've also been fooling with minnow traps. For the curious, vinyl coated expanded metal traps are dookie. Gee's galvanized hardware cloth traps will catch every fish that'll fit the throat within a 5 mile radius. I set it last night and caught 2 dozen of the smallest green sunfish(?) I've ever seen.
Again, for the curious, the net is a neat little thing Engels makes to go in their coolers. Handiest little livewell/coolers in the world. Wish I'd have bought one 10 years ago.
Amos and I have caught a few bass.
And I'm teaching the BIL how to catch fish and eat steak rare.
Some days on the water are crappier than others.
And sometimes your wife shows you up. She caught her personal best today, and I caught my personal worst last week.
Let's see some fishin' pics!
I was beating around town yesterday evening and got to thinking about some old retention ponds my dad built in a commercial area about 15 years ago. Figured I'd check to see if they held fish. Oh boy...
Flathead Candy!! rigged a little split shot rig and went to work like Gepetto in the whale. 10 minutes and I was done.
Kinda small, but good enough for limb lines. Went home, had dinner, and picked up my first mate. She's really embraced life as a river rat and ran the tiller while I set some lines in the mouth of a little lake that dumps into the big river.
After a good night's sleep and some coffee, I rode her back out and put her to work hauling fish.
25.6lbs. Her personal best flatty! Filled a 5 gallon bucket about halfway up with pretty little catfish nuggets. I don't usually eat fish that big, but I committed to a fish fry next weekend and it's been kinda slow. Hard to find shad and the bluegill bite just turned on here.
I've also been fooling with minnow traps. For the curious, vinyl coated expanded metal traps are dookie. Gee's galvanized hardware cloth traps will catch every fish that'll fit the throat within a 5 mile radius. I set it last night and caught 2 dozen of the smallest green sunfish(?) I've ever seen.
Again, for the curious, the net is a neat little thing Engels makes to go in their coolers. Handiest little livewell/coolers in the world. Wish I'd have bought one 10 years ago.
Amos and I have caught a few bass.
And I'm teaching the BIL how to catch fish and eat steak rare.
Some days on the water are crappier than others.
And sometimes your wife shows you up. She caught her personal best today, and I caught my personal worst last week.
Let's see some fishin' pics!
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