04-28-2009, 09:00 AM
Called to reserve an early start for Saturday and got an extra battery for the trolling motor, just in case.<br />Good to talk to the boat guys, very helpful for fishing info and good helpers with the gear.<br />We left at 7:30 local and ended up there about 1 hr and 20 min later. If you do not request a boat for an early start, you have to wait until 8:00AM central time for them to open.<br />Beautiful drive and amazing to see the trees and bushes and grasses etc.. are about 2-3 weeks behind us in the spring pattern.<br />It had been cold, but the warm-up we had Friday and Saturday helped the bite.<br />At one point I had 4 fish on my watch and within an hour they were hitting good.<br />My bride smoked me as she continually caught fish as I tried all the different colors we had gotten the night before.<br />After 2 hours of guiding her to the fish, I hit on a color and started to add to the list. That was good because she invited me to reel one of her&#39;s in. emoGoofy <br />Yes, she kept a list with great detail and we ended up with about 25 fish.<br />She started with an almost 1 and 3/4 lb red ear.<br />Then she made me take a pic of her pretty little bass.<br />OK I did and you can see them.<br /> emoSmile <br />BG 2&quot; bleeding shad dipped was the best.<br />We had a ball!<br />She picked up on &quot;the system&quot; very well! emoThumbsup All on ultralight 4# and 1/32<br />When we got home she had to complain about being sore in her shoulder from catching so many fish.<br />I love to take my wife fishing emoHeart <br />BTW the story is that some people illegally introduced crappie in the lake years ago, and we didn&#39;t catch a single one emoConfused