Why they call it fishing.....
Posted 05-30-2009 at 10:30 PM by GenericAngler
and not catching.
5/30/09, Louisville 2 (again).
Decided to squeeze in one more outing this month. Hit the park about 4:30 PM and put everything together and was in the water by 5:00 PM.
Talk about a dole drum day....The weather was nice, but the stupid little hassles were up front and center. Only way I can describe is to make a list.
1. Spooled up all of my poles with fresh line last night. Big mistake, I either over spooled them, used crappy line or spooled them backwords....nothing but trouble with my line today.
2. Cotton in the water....yuck, I remember this stuff pissed me off last year as well. It gets on your line in balls and makes it tough to cast these balls through your guides.
2a. Had one overspool that was so bad, I had to tear my real apart and cut line to fix it up....Errrr.
3. The fishing was fairly s l o w.
Got into a few nice sized Blue Gill about 5:45 or so. A few 7", a 7 1/2" and 2 true 8 inchers.
Only got a picture of one of the 7".....
Because....
4. Most of the fish I caught today were deeply hooked. I spend more time digging out hooks and washing blood of my tray than ever before. I must not have been on my game at all with my hooksets.
5. Lost 4 or 5 decent bass at various stages....the last of which jumped in the air and spit my jig and senko right back at me 3 feet from my tube. Again, my hooksets sucked today.
Finally decided to kick in at about 7:30 PM, and managed this little guy from the bottom....(My first Louisville cat of the year):
Then just as I was getting ready to go ashore, I finally got a couple baby bass to go for my wacky worm....only to deep hook them so bad that I did not even think about spending any more time looking for their big brothers.
All in all, it was a pretty sucky outing....But better than work. Will have to go out again in the next few days to get the bad taste out of my mouth.
5/30/09, Louisville 2 (again).
Decided to squeeze in one more outing this month. Hit the park about 4:30 PM and put everything together and was in the water by 5:00 PM.
Talk about a dole drum day....The weather was nice, but the stupid little hassles were up front and center. Only way I can describe is to make a list.
1. Spooled up all of my poles with fresh line last night. Big mistake, I either over spooled them, used crappy line or spooled them backwords....nothing but trouble with my line today.
2. Cotton in the water....yuck, I remember this stuff pissed me off last year as well. It gets on your line in balls and makes it tough to cast these balls through your guides.
2a. Had one overspool that was so bad, I had to tear my real apart and cut line to fix it up....Errrr.
3. The fishing was fairly s l o w.
Got into a few nice sized Blue Gill about 5:45 or so. A few 7", a 7 1/2" and 2 true 8 inchers.
Only got a picture of one of the 7".....
Because....
4. Most of the fish I caught today were deeply hooked. I spend more time digging out hooks and washing blood of my tray than ever before. I must not have been on my game at all with my hooksets.
5. Lost 4 or 5 decent bass at various stages....the last of which jumped in the air and spit my jig and senko right back at me 3 feet from my tube. Again, my hooksets sucked today.
Finally decided to kick in at about 7:30 PM, and managed this little guy from the bottom....(My first Louisville cat of the year):
Then just as I was getting ready to go ashore, I finally got a couple baby bass to go for my wacky worm....only to deep hook them so bad that I did not even think about spending any more time looking for their big brothers.
All in all, it was a pretty sucky outing....But better than work. Will have to go out again in the next few days to get the bad taste out of my mouth.
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