Badin 5-21-13

My buddy Mike couldn't go today, so me and Zach took Maggie Mae for a little pre-birthday fishing trip. She turns 9 years old tomorrow. I told her we could fish for anything she wanted to from trout to crappie to stripers to cats and she said she wanted to go catfishing. Got to the lake about 6am and caught enough bait for a day of fishing easy enough. Ran up the river and set up in our first hole. Took a bit, but finally got Maggie on her first fish of the day. Had our big rods set out and hooked her up with one of my crappie rods and let her bottom bounce for a while catching bream, perch, and cats off and on all day. She ended up with 17 by herself . . . just ask her. LOL Zach saw a fish jump up right behind the boat and something about it being a bass. I looked at one of his rods and told him that he had a fish on . . . ended up being the bass he saw juming. It came off of cut bait. LOL Picked away at them there for a while then headed up to the dam and fished up there for a bit. Got on em pretty good for a while there and met a few guys who are on here as well. I'm terrible with names so hopefully they'll chime in here too. Caught us a little more bait up at the dam and moved to our last hole around 11:30 am. Sat there till 1:30 and only picked up 2 15lbrs. All in all a good day. Bait was easy enough and we caught about 22-25 catfish (not counting Maggie's mixed bag she caught "all by herself") that ranged from 2 lbs. to about 25 being the biggest, and several n the mid to upper teens. Water color was pretty good all the way up to the dam and forgive me for not thinking to look at the water temp. Nice to meet and talk to the guys we met too. Fun day.
Mike

Take a kid outdoors!

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Way to go Mike.I enjoyed the post and of course the pictures,,especially the one with Zach "hooked up"..Thanks for sharing. And a early HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MAGGIE.!!!

Great report and pics, she looks very happy.

great trip!

Can't wait till Friday night to start on them catfish at Badin. I hate this killer week every month at work. Can't fish for 9 days. Great pics and I love to see those kids out fishin'. Keep them in the woods and the creek bank and you keep them out of trouble!!

Hello Mike, enjoyed talking with you Zack and Maggie yesterday. We ended up with a couple 14lbrs and several smaller ones. Kept a few blues and fried up for supper -YUMMY.Beautiful day to be on the water. Tell Maggie we,re wishing her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today. Larry

Thanks everyone, it was a fun day indeed.

Larry, great to talk to ya'll too. It was definately a nice day on the water. Got rained (and stormed) on going down and coming back, but good weather while on the water. Would love to get with ya on Tillers sometime. I saw "Randleman Outdoors" on your buddy's boat and found it on facebook. Didn't see much activity on there since last deer season. Is that group still active and ya got any details?
Mike

Take a kid outdoors!