10-13-2009, 09:00 AM
Well took my gill gear to the chick dam and a bucket of crickets to try my hand at the art of clotheshanger fishing. What a surprise did I see when the local O'l man river Dexter, I swear he lives there, hollered at me to come look in the back of his ride as I took my gear outta my trunk. I was aww strick at the monster sticking outta his bucket of crappie. It was a 16lb 4oz Hybrid!!!!! I couldn't believe how big this hawg was!!! 28 5/8" long and 21 1/8" girth. He had caught it that morning crappie fishing above the dam and brought it down to show her off. I shot the bull for a while an he headed on his way so I took my gear on down and hooked into several nice saucer size gills. I chatted with a couple fellows as I headed the wing wall and chunked a nice 6" shad into the #1 hole and I felt small tug so I tugged back and it felt like the shad was on top of the water so I reeled in a bit and it took off!!!! To my surprise up came a solid 30-4olb paddlefish!!! I fought her for a solid 10 min. and got some help from a couple gents and landed it. My 3rd of all time and I was thinking how the day couldn't have went better!! ENJOY THE PICS!! emoTongue emoTongue