Caught a few Gills

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03-23-2009, 09:09 AM
zinsurance

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Caught a few Gills

The wife has been getting interested in fishing and we had a couple hours this weekend so we went and hit a few farm ponds that this time last year looked more like mud holes. We really didn't know if anything survived the low water. Put her on a white roadrunner with chartruse body and told her to get with it. On about her second cast she asked me "what is that stick out in the water?" It was the top section of her rod that came off when she cast, when she got it reeled up she had a nice Gill on, I couldn't believe it. We caught several more gills as well as some bass. She caught about a 3 1/2 pound bass and about dropped her pole in the water when she got it in from sheer exitement. Needless to say the pond still has fish and I'll probably not be able to leave the wife at home to go fishing anymore (not that that's a bad thing).
03-23-2009, 10:05 AM
Illinoisgiller

Neat!!

That is funny! Ive done the rod thing but been a loooong time ago. Actually you will be the envy of many having your wife interested in fishing.
I and my wife have some grand times fishing.:)
03-23-2009, 07:51 PM
catman

congrats z, looks like a good fishin partner.
03-24-2009, 04:38 AM
Crappie Reaper

That's a great thing z! Glad ya'll had fun, and since that rod is falling apart, good time to take her shopping for a new one!
03-24-2009, 08:32 AM
zinsurance

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Originally Posted by Crappie Reaper

That's a great thing z! Glad ya'll had fun, and since that rod is falling apart, good time to take her shopping for a new one!

Naah, since she's just starting out, I'll be the one who gets to go shopping and she'll get the hand-me-down rods...as you can tell, I may have ulterior motives for the increased interest in fishing from the little lady! Before we do any new shopping I gotta pay my tab from Uncle Sam.
03-24-2009, 04:37 PM
OKSTATEjiggy

good job, Z!

You can dang sure tell y'all are in W. Oklahoma by the looks of that pond! I do miss those stock tanks, there's a lot of fish in em.
03-25-2009, 08:48 AM
zinsurance

yeah, there are days it almost feels like cheating...almost. The water in those spring fed ponds is so clear the fish can be quite picky at times. We were up at my parents in NW OK that day. That broken country keeps a calling me, gonna trade in my closeness to the lake for family and farm ponds someday.