11-21-2000, 06:45 PM
During summer I used to love going to work with my dad. One day during summer I was helping my dad repair his work truck on the lot. I was only ten or so at the time, so really was not helping to much in stead more like a pain my dads neck. So I decided to go fishing at the ponds that were right behind the lot. These ponds where sand pits from and old gravel company that owned the land before my dads company did. The old sand pits had Blue gills, Prech, Crappie, Crap and chuck full of Largemouth Bass. I had fished these ponds before and always caught something. But on this warm afternoon to my surpise I caught the biggest Crappie I even seen it had to be 15in or so, or at least thats what i thought when I was 10. Before that day the largest Crappie I caught was 6 in or so. So this fish was huge compared to the others. So after reeling in this monster I put him on my stringer and went back to fishing. Sence these where small ponds I would walk around them and cast out every couple of feet or so. After going around the pond I cam back to my stringer and was looking down at the huge crappie I had caught. I could not see him, so I pulled on the stringer to bring him up out of the water. I pulled and then the stringer pulled back, this is strange I thought to myself I am playing tug-a-war when I pull the stringer it pulls right back. I said to myself it has to be that the fish swam under a rock and just doesnot want to be taken out of the water. Finally I pulled harder and the stringer came lose. The stringer came flying out of the water, the only thing left of that huge Crappie was it's head. I looked down into the water and a turtle was laying there with the rest of the Crappie in his mouth. The trutle was eating my prize fish and the only thing i had to show was the Crappie head. So i learned if you are going to keep a fish the only way to do this is to have a live well well away from the water. Do not use a stringer! I will never forget that day going to work with my Dad. <br><br>by Ron : Friday 3 November, 20<br><br><br>Submit your Fishing Adventure Stories to win great prizes at ReMemory.Com