04-22-2012, 09:00 AM
Well, it was impossible to top last year&#39;s trip, but we sure did try. Three out of the four kids had never fished before, so they had quite the good time. Jesica boated two big smallmouth, and she was letting out shrieks each and every jump. We hooked up with a number of blues drifting light tackle.<br /><br />Jesica hooked into a big blue, but after awhile it towed us down to the parked barge and we got into trouble fast. I couldn&#39;t get out of the way and pop went the line. I think it would have taken a lot longer to land it downstream as it was a big ole light tackle fish. Later, I hooked an upstream drag screamer that must have broken in the rocks as I passed the rod off to one of the kids. Each kid had a cat in the 10 lb class, so they were all happy campers. Wish we could have landed the two big bites we had, but I was excited the trip turned out to be a success.<br /><br />Now, I must say, for three of them never fishing before, they hooked and landed on their own a fair number of fish. As usual, the first shift of kids hooked a few bass and the 2nd shift landed more cats. It seems like it takes the cats a bit to wake up.<br /><br />Sam