Thread: Nothing but Gills , except

Fished the Town pond for about an hour and a half this morning.
Started out fishing my 5’6” 13 Fishing Omen T&P rod with a KastKing Zephyr SFS 1000 reel and just didn’t care for the way the rod felt . Felt heavy in the hand .
I just happened to have an Abu Garcia Mass Beat 3 travel rod in the car , so I swapped the reel to it .
Fished the sunny side for a few minutes and caught a couple nice bluegills , got too hot and walked over to the shady side .
I caught two more bluegills and two shellcrackers .
Just as I was about to leave I hooked into the fish of the day . It took me for a ride .
Up and down the bank with the Zephyr’s carbon drag just a singing .
I didn’t think I’d be able to get it close enough to at least see what it was .
Didn’t act like a bass , they usually try to jump .
I worked the fish for over fifteen minutes and finally started making progress getting it closing .
I got it all the way up to the moss and it was something I’d never caught out of the Town pond . One ugly catfish. It was black and white with sores all over it .
While I was trying to make up my mind whether I wanted to attempt to grab it or even touch it , it looked so bad .
It flopped , kicked and broke my 2# line . I watched as it swam away.
I got what I wanted out of it , a good battle .