03-29-2013, 09:00 AM
What a wonderful day! I rolled out of bed and hit the road at 9:45 this morning (zero-dark-thirty for me). Lots of folks parked at the ramp, but they were all bass and crappie folks I guess. Got to my favorite spot and was alone today. Ran my drift lines for about 45 minutes without a bite. Guess the cats were napping late too.<br /><br />About 11:30 am the place came alive with fish. Started out with an 11 pound and on the next drift hung a GOOD fish on the 6 pound test! After a bit of a struggle emoEek emoEek I netted a beautiful 42 pound blue cat that looked to me more like a 60 when he came up. My best fish on 6 pound so far! I followed that with a puny 8 pound fish (even Spurhunter could have handled that one) and then a 22 pound. Looked like I was in the groove. The last really good fish was a 30 lb whose tail was all torn up, must have been wrapped in someone&#39;s line or nets recently. Still a great catch. After this one all the rest ran about 6 pounds, I guess I ran into a whole flock of &#39;em and so I decided to quit after 7 or 8 of them.<br /><br />The wind was less than I expected and the sun was warming. Beautiful day to fish. I&#39;d consider going again tomorrow, but it&#39;s Good Friday and the lake will be covered up with folks off of work. Of course, I COULD get up once at the REAL zero-dark-thirty. It could happen..................<br /><br /><br />