05-29-2010, 09:00 AM
My brother, Mark, came down from Wisconsin (Milwaukee) for a week and wanted to go fishing with me today. I was thrilled to have him come along! We were on the water and fishng at about 7:45 with a couple dozen shiners and some frozen skipjack for bait. Got out to one of the &quot;spots&quot; and found a fishing friend already there. He had tried castnetting shad this morning with no luck whatsoever. We fished there with him and found a few largemouth and one spotted bass. Mark has never seen a spotted bass so it was interesting to show him the differences. The fishing was slow (I suspect because of the lack of shad - for forage and for bait) and after trying another place with no luck we decided to change to catfishing. Also a slow, slow day for them. Mark caught his first blue cat this morning, a nice 8 pounder, and I managed to stick a tail-deformed fish of 16 pounds. We got a few other fish that looked just like blue cats - only smaller.<br /><br /> It was a beautiful day. Mark enjoyed it greatly. We were visited by a couple of CFF members. DRC stopped by for a short chat, and ol&#39; drumking and labman pulled up for a while. I finally took a picture of dk to show just how close to you he likes to fish (or tell his lies emoBig
).<br /><br />The first pic is brother Mark in the front of my boat. In the shot of the two of us, I&#39;m the good-looking and smart one. In the shot of dk, well, you know - it&#39;s dk!!! And the last pic is of two rather misshapen adults of different species:<br /><br />Fun day!!!
).<br /><br />The first pic is brother Mark in the front of my boat. In the shot of the two of us, I&#39;m the good-looking and smart one. In the shot of dk, well, you know - it&#39;s dk!!! And the last pic is of two rather misshapen adults of different species:<br /><br />Fun day!!!