05-17-2009, 09:00 AM
My brother-in-law did a major make-over on his farm pond and needed help getting fish from one pond to another, so he called upon ol&#39; Daniel (drc) and I and a handful of others to have a fishin&#39; day.<br />We had worms and weenies and cut bait and artificials, but they wouldn&#39;t let me anywhere near the weenies - kept saying something about them not being on my diet and that they were for bait. So instead I got to use worms in very, very black dirt, which will be obvious to you in the photo of me in my used-to-be-white shirt (WOW - look how skinny both I and the fish look - must be a special new make-everything-thinner camera lens!). I know I can&#39;t really be that thin, &#39;cause I sat in a canvas deck chair that had been outside for a few years and immediately fell through so that my butt was on the dock and my arms and legs were pointing straight up. I&#39;m pretty sure that 3 of the guys and 2 kids all staggered around laughing until they fell into the pond. Even the goat tied up in the yard said &quot;not baa-aa-ad&quot;!!!!<br />I guess we only got 15 or 18 channel cats and will have to go back sometime when it&#39;s NOT 1:00 pm with a BRIGHT sun beating down on a very shallow pond. It sure didn&#39;t bother the sunfish though! We had a real hoot catching a tub full. There were even a reasonable number of bass caught, but all were returned to the pond. DRC saw a nice big bass cruising, and just had to chase it for an hour with various lures, but other than one close-up inspection of one lure, the fish just wasn&#39;t tempted.<br />Here are just a couple of pics of another great fishing outing (it&#39;s all in the attitude!)..........