01-28-2019, 02:02 PM
I all but forgot the time I hooked a "dog" at Willow pond in Murray. I took my grandkids fishing there, and was using bobbers to keep the bait out of snags on the bottom.
One of my grandkids yelled, granpa there is a fish on the pole. I picked it up and started reeling, it took drag, and I thought there must be bigger fish in this place than I thought.
Then the older of the kids shouted that there was a dog swimming at the other end of the line! Don't know why I didn't notice the dog at first. Probably because not a normal thing to have dogs swimming in your fishing waters.
Sure enough the dog was at the end of the line and swimming for the far shore. I thought this is going to be messy if he has the hook in his skin.
I opened the bail so he could reach the far shore and what looked like his owner. But thankfully, the line went limp and he came free, and apparently did not get the hook in him.
We still laugh about catching a "dog" at Willow pond.
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One of my grandkids yelled, granpa there is a fish on the pole. I picked it up and started reeling, it took drag, and I thought there must be bigger fish in this place than I thought.
Then the older of the kids shouted that there was a dog swimming at the other end of the line! Don't know why I didn't notice the dog at first. Probably because not a normal thing to have dogs swimming in your fishing waters.
Sure enough the dog was at the end of the line and swimming for the far shore. I thought this is going to be messy if he has the hook in his skin.
I opened the bail so he could reach the far shore and what looked like his owner. But thankfully, the line went limp and he came free, and apparently did not get the hook in him.
We still laugh about catching a "dog" at Willow pond.
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