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My Fishing Vacation Thread
Its already been a long winter for me. early last fall the shop foreman in my auto body shop retired so now I am top dog, and my to-do list at work went through the roof. the long hours have me worn down, so I am taking a vacation and leaving all my responsibilities behind this week.
I started my vacation by taking a trip to Tennessee to catch some catfish bait, skipjacks. went to the Cumberland City power plant and fished the warm water discharge and had a blast. it was slow by local standards, and only caught about 90 skips:biggrin.... back home on sunday night and fished the mighty Missouri on Monday. took my buddy Jim and did pretty good, ended up catching 7 blues and 2 channels from 5-12lbs, then ran into a fiend who gave us another channel and blue for a total of 11 nice cats to clean.
at the very end of the day yesterday, finally had a good one on. was fishing in hard straight line current on the edge of a deeper hole and I saw my rod tip twitch a few times, then it pulled down about 4 inches and stayed there. I jumped up and put my hand on the reel and as I did my pole slammed down in the rod holder and started peeling drag for a brief second. grabbed the pole and the fish gave me a couple of head shakes that ripped drag and then he was gone! it's always the one the got away, but that's why I love fishing our big rivers! never know what is gonna stretch your line....
plenty of fish in the freezer now so the rest of the week is catch and release.... headed back to the river now so plenty more updates to follow!
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