My much less than great day fishing
I was all caught up on chores and decided to go get me some gills. Got out on the water and tried my 5 ft UL with a trout magnet. Very first cast I screamed in pain. I had not thought about my injured right shoulder. It hurt terribly to cast. I tried casting left handed and it went poorly but it went. No gills. I tried different colors and different spots. No fish. After 2 hours of left handed messes and no fish I decided to change my tactic totally. I got out my 9 ft jigging pole with a trout magnet. I dipped it into the many pockets in the thick cattails. It worked! About every 15 ft was another pocket and another fish. Every one came off near the boat. All 2-3 lb bass. nonono The trout magnet hook is way too small to keep them hooked. I lost about 20 bass. So all in all I re-injured my shoulder, learned I'm terrible at a left handed casting, learned that trout magnets will catch bass but will not hold them, and learned that if I want to catch bass tell the family I'm going gill fishing. That fakes out the fish . :Doh:
