Thread: 9-7-15 Labor Day The wife is still at it!

Ever had one of those days where you would have been money ahead to have stayed in bed or at least stay at home? That was me Friday when I took the wife. We had time after time that I spent what seemed like hours untangling lines from yellows that weren't noticed or baits not running true. Finally, when we hung and lost 4 cranks at one time while I was busy untangling multiple lines, I had a meltdown. I'm nowhere near as bad as when I was young but it does come back to me occasionally. Load it on the trailer and go to the house was my solution before I said or did something that would have equaled me letting my alligator mouth overload my humminbird butt.

After removing about a million miles of line and backing off all my trolling reels and replacing it with fresh, we were good to go for Monday morning, Labor Day. Holidays on KY Lake are like being at Disney World the week after Christmas. Been there, done that, got a T shirt. My better judgement said no but the wife was off and ready to make amends for Friday's fiasco.

We launched and headed to a spot I wanted to try while it was dark enough to have to run lights. We were pulling baits before the sun thought about coming up over the trees on the LBL side.


We hadn't gone far when we hooked a double on gaspergoos. After some laughs and fancy net work we looked back and this one was skipping along the top on one of Vicki's rods.


She wasn't even woke up good and wasn't happy to get her picture taken with no make-up on and sleepy eyes. She got over it.

I couldn't keep up with her when it came to putting crappie in the boat. I did hook what might have been the biggest crappie I have seen this year and got it to the net where it was promptly knocked off to go and swim again. We had a heart-to-heart lesson on netting techniques AGAIN but for some reason I just laughed it off. Might have been karma from Friday?

I did manage to catch a few like this one that swallowed the crank out of sight then bled all over me and the boat.


The lake lice stayed in until just after 9 AM. we left it for them soon after but not before I caught this pig. No idea what went thru its mind just before it took on this c55.



We ended up with 10 keepers with 4 really good fish and one giant that got away. I know where she lives!

Any lingering effect from Friday got washed away this morning. Another good day pulling cranks with my wonderful wife of 40 years.

I like your set up Doug. Don't ever think you got a low class set up. The ingenuity is sometimes better than having a high class boat. Gives u something to be proud of too! . BTW. The lights are cool!. Thanks for the info bud.