Fishing Forum

<br /> <br />When we were walking out of church yesterday Carol asked me if I would take her fishing...heck yea, who is gonna turn that down??? We decided to let Tim, Caleb and Valleri tag along as well. I forgot to grab some skipjack for bait, so picked up the stand-by chicken breast. We got on the water about 4:30ish and we started drifting. Flow was around 25k so I figured the bite would really be hot...It was not. We struggled badly for about an hour picking up one channel cat. I saw some bait down river and netted up some real big threadfins. That BARELY helped the cause. We were still struggling when Sam showed up about 6:30 to show me up. Right on cue the bite picks up when the river-master made his appearance, and we had a pretty good evening after that point. One big smallie pushing 4 lbs, more than a dozen mixed catfish, a couple white bass, lost one smallie at the boat, landed two striped bass pushing 10 lbs, and a dozen or more skipjack. At least half the fish came on Carolina rigged foley spoons after we ran through the bait. Shockingly, the stripers, whites and most of the skipjack came after dark. Everybody caught fish in the end, so it turned out to be a really good evening. <br /> <br />Damage report: <br />First: <br />While in rotation with Sam, I saw he had TWO rods hooked up and I hollered out that the bum deserved it! Ooops, should not have done that as less than 5 seconds later while he was trying to put one down and step on it, it went overboard.....the fish he caught on the other was a drum. LOL Sorry Sam. <br /> <br />Second: <br />After getting my reverse gears re-cut last week, I had a feeling it wasn't going to fix the problem. I was right, essentially loosing reverse again. I am seriously bummed out about this. <br /> <br />Third: <br />While backing the boat into the driveway, I somehow, in the dark, bashed in the side of my Honda Accord. <br /> <br />