02-27-2009, 10:00 AM
Today I went with my daughters kindergarten class to the Discovery Museum, after that was done I had a little time to kill before going back to CSAS (near Erlanger) to pick her up after school. I decided to take the short drive to Ross&#39; Landing to fish for a little while. I&#39;ve done this a time or two before over the winter with no luck. But it was still fun just being near the water and casting. <br /><br />I fished under the pier for a while and then a man on a golf cart stopped by and let me know that I wasn&#39;t supposed to fish there. He said there were signs all over. I have seen signs around the fountain but none there. I asked him where I could fish and he pointed a short distance downstream where there were some rocks to stand on instead of the concrete walkway.<br /><br />I went to the rocks and continued to have basically no luck until I got what felt like a bite and then I thought I was hung up until I finally realized that I had a pretty good fish on, I was able to land it but it did bend the hook back quite a bit on the 1/16th OZ curly tail jig I was using. It was a drum. I don&#39;t know the weight or length. I thought about walking back up the hill and getting my scale and tape measure but I figured the fish wouldn&#39;t survive. <br /><br />This drum is the biggest freshwater fish I&#39;ve caught that wasn&#39;t a catfish.<br /><br />There was a Spanish speaking family passing by on the concrete walkway behind me as I hooked the drum, they stayed and watched me land it and were kind enough to take this picture. <br /><br />Just to give you an idea of scale, I&#39;m 6&#39;3&quot; tall and weigh 240 pounds.<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /><br /><br />P.S. I just noticed I&#39;m still wearing my &#39;School Visitor&quot; name label. 