08-10-2013, 09:00 AM
It was a great day on the water with Joe Jellison (CFF&#39;s splitsnowberry -- I never did get him to explain that name?)<br /><br />I can&#39;t write as purty EricM, so if you want the more &quot;entertaining&quot; report... watch this video: http://youtu.be/Uohc9qVHfjw (BTW, EricM... Joe gave you a &quot;shout out&quot; on video. Watch and you&#39;ll understand why.)<br /><br />Joe wanted to target smallmouth... obviously not a prime time of year to do that but we figured, &quot;Why not?&quot; Of course there was zero generation for starters so we opted to begin chasing cats. Joe stuck a 25 lb. hard-fighting pig blue - first fish. I think we have another &quot;chicken breast&quot; convert, by the way. emoBig
Not long after Joe boated his fish we got to watch shsimon&#39;s attractive partner go toe-to-toe with an even bigger, meaner blue. (also on video above).<br /><br />Generators kicked in as scheduled at 9 am and on our 2nd drift, Joe was tied up to our one and only smallmouth of the day. We kept drifting shiners all day... we probably would have caught some more smallmouth but there were too darn many other fish that wanted out shiners more. Poor, poor us. emoBawl <br /><br />Perhaps the highlight of the day was watching Joe tied up with a freight train, 31-pound buffalo... while I had him equipped with a buggywhip smallmouth rod with 6 lb. test leader. What a fight... Joe was THE MAN! emoEek Not many folks could have whipped that beast on light tackle and light line. (BTW, some of that battle comprises much of the video above)<br /><br />We caught eight different species of fish yesterday... and a significant number of them. That means life is good and gettin&#39; better every day! emoBig<br /><br />
Not long after Joe boated his fish we got to watch shsimon&#39;s attractive partner go toe-to-toe with an even bigger, meaner blue. (also on video above).<br /><br />Generators kicked in as scheduled at 9 am and on our 2nd drift, Joe was tied up to our one and only smallmouth of the day. We kept drifting shiners all day... we probably would have caught some more smallmouth but there were too darn many other fish that wanted out shiners more. Poor, poor us. emoBawl <br /><br />Perhaps the highlight of the day was watching Joe tied up with a freight train, 31-pound buffalo... while I had him equipped with a buggywhip smallmouth rod with 6 lb. test leader. What a fight... Joe was THE MAN! emoEek Not many folks could have whipped that beast on light tackle and light line. (BTW, some of that battle comprises much of the video above)<br /><br />We caught eight different species of fish yesterday... and a significant number of them. That means life is good and gettin&#39; better every day! emoBig<br /><br />