06-05-2004, 11:10 PM
Did an overnighter to Bird Island last night. The fifty something guy slept for 2 hours and the twenty something guy slept for 4 hours. They just don't make fishermen the way that they used to. Started fishing at 7:00 PM, and I knocked off for the night at 3:30 AM. I caught 15 channel cats, and my fishing buddy caught 9. My best bait was either a whole, or 1/2 of a perch (Sawdustbob, thanks for the idea of fishing with perch). We only managed one fish in the morning, before leaving about 9:3O. Nothing huge, they were all between three and four pounds. Those birds, and there are plenty of them, put up a racket all night long. No mosquitos, but there are plenty of midges (not a fly fisherman, but that is what I was told they are) are thick after dark, when the wind dies down, if one turns on a light.
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