Thread: Down by the River .....

I dint lose my baby .....
somehow in gods' infinite wisdom I prevailed ....
I somehow managed to land a nice bass in that mess .........
it was dicey , thought there is not a winner here ...
gunna lose a jig and maybe a float and for sure the fish ....
well it worked out the other way for some silly reason
and for sure the bass was not in cooperation mode ....
I went back for a second jungle whipping Friday.
4 minutes from work and a few fish are enticing you know ....
the fish in that ditch off the river are suspended high in the water column ...
probably due to the amounts of forage on the surface is my guess
and or oxygen levels and water clarity maybe ?
nonetheless , short under the float and extra twitchy gets bites .
it was fun this go , really tough to negotiate the terrain though
got myself down to the waters edge and sat on some broken concrete
the bass made me do it ....
landed that fish on MY BELLY ! not kidding ...that concrete is steep ....
ketched me almost the works
never found the red ear I know are in there sometimes , but found some of the rest of the local fish in pretty good numbers. a few hybrid sunfish . a few bluegill . a few longear and them them river sunnies too ....
we call them yellowbelly here , but I think they are actually redbreast sunfish ?
they mostly occur in these parts in rivers , bought never ketch one in a lake .....
good times , more scratches and skeeter bites , but more bigger fish in bigger numbers made it pretty darn fun , brought back that there kid in the ditch trying to ketch fish in me ....
KABOOM