Thread: Secession Event

I made my first trip ever to Lake Secession this weekend. The prospect of driving 100 miles through all the back roads at 4 in the morning did not appeal to me so I got one of my local buds, Mickey, to come up with me on Friday. We got up in time to fish a while on Friday afternoon and then spent the night in Anderson.
Iva is a neat little town and I could have spent a couple of hours in the Sportsman One Stop but we had fish to catch so we only stayed long enough to get minnows.
Fishing was slow Friday afternoon until near the end when I decided to throw a Rooty Tooty out and reel in real slow.


This fellow swallowed it time I turned the handle. He was the best fish of the afternoon to that point. Then I made a fatal mistake.



I caught this fellow next on a minnow. He weighed 1lb 15oz. and measured 15". The one before him was about 12 inches.

The fatal mistake was I caught them on the wrong day. Our best 5 fish Saturday barely weighed what these two weighed.

Here were the two from Friday.
Saturday was such a pretty day I think it broke our concentration.

At least it looked to me that Mickey's concentration was a bit off. Probably has something to do with getting up at 4:30 AM!
We had a great time, met some old friends and a couple of new ones as well. John got Mickey all fired up about a Perch Jerk at Wylie so I will have to bring him to Wylie pretty soon.
Thanks to Ronnie and Jimmy for hosting a great outing and all the work they put into making it a success. By the way, I fished a couple of Ronnie's new Crappie rigs and the work slick as a whistle. Only down side was the first fish I caught on one of his rigs was a green carp that hit my middle rod and played ring around the rigs before I got him in. On the bright side, these rigs are easy to untangle.(trust me on that one)

PS to Longliner(Mark) I did not recognize you in the new boat Friday. It is a slick looking rig but I did not realize it was you until y'all had gone up to the store so pardon me for not speaking.