08-11-2007, 03:07 PM
Had a fun outing yesterday afternoon/evening with a new tube convert here in Nebraski. He is a long time fisherman, but new convert to the church of the tube....funny how a small batch of us floating around on little 20 acre lakes for a few years (more years for OBG - or "TubeDude East" as myself and Fishheiser have been known to call him) can do for the sales dept at the local tube store [
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Some would say we were crazy to head out in 98 degree temps at 5 PM....But it beats work by a mile. Plus, when you are not retired or unemployed, your fishing chances are limited...so best to take what you can.
The bite was slow for the first little while, I had only caught a couple of small (really small) crappie....Alex was doing a bit better on the bass an gills. However, as it got later I finally had a decent 20" cat surrender to me on my "emergency - don't get skunked pole" that was floating a green night crawler under a bobber while I was pretending to jig fish with my 7' "do get skunked" pole on the other side of the tube.
The real excitement came about 15 minutes later when I started bringing in what I thought was another eater cat. I soon found out that this was no eater cat....It dragged me in circles, made runs that yanked 4-5' of drag at a time, and just had it's way with me for quite a while. Every time I would get it close to net, it would make another run...even when I dared tighten the drag a bit. I got it close enough to see my bobber about 4 times (for a split second) -- but alas....my 6 lb line decided that it had all that it could take (or it could have been me getting a little greedy with the drag settings as I reached for my net....errrr..) and SNAP! Oh well, at least now I have this years "the one that got away story".
Had a great time fishing with another Nebraska tube convert....and look forward to trying again in the near future.
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]Some would say we were crazy to head out in 98 degree temps at 5 PM....But it beats work by a mile. Plus, when you are not retired or unemployed, your fishing chances are limited...so best to take what you can.
The bite was slow for the first little while, I had only caught a couple of small (really small) crappie....Alex was doing a bit better on the bass an gills. However, as it got later I finally had a decent 20" cat surrender to me on my "emergency - don't get skunked pole" that was floating a green night crawler under a bobber while I was pretending to jig fish with my 7' "do get skunked" pole on the other side of the tube.
The real excitement came about 15 minutes later when I started bringing in what I thought was another eater cat. I soon found out that this was no eater cat....It dragged me in circles, made runs that yanked 4-5' of drag at a time, and just had it's way with me for quite a while. Every time I would get it close to net, it would make another run...even when I dared tighten the drag a bit. I got it close enough to see my bobber about 4 times (for a split second) -- but alas....my 6 lb line decided that it had all that it could take (or it could have been me getting a little greedy with the drag settings as I reached for my net....errrr..) and SNAP! Oh well, at least now I have this years "the one that got away story".
Had a great time fishing with another Nebraska tube convert....and look forward to trying again in the near future.
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