11-02-2010, 09:00 AM
Mrs. EricM had to go to the west coast Sunday (she's working!!!! emoBig
emoBig ) so I, being the man if the house and can therefore do anything that I want, shut off all of the lights and sat in the dark ignoring the little booger-faced children who were beating on my door and ringing my doorbell trying to get treats from me, and instead watched football and baseball and ate all of the candy that my wife believes was handed out.<br /><br />I went to bed and had nightmares of being &quot;stoned&quot; to death with miniature Hershey bars by a horde of snot-nosed kids in masks while their irate mothers looked on......................<br /><br />Woke up this morning with a bellyache and all of my teeth had rotted and fallen out.<br /><br />To atone for my sins, I decided to skip breakfast (there were a couple of strawberry Twizzlers left over sticking out of the cushions of the couch) and headed directly for the river since the TVA gods had decided to bless us with great water flow. First pass netted a nice 9 lb blue before I was even fully set-up. Second pass put a 7 pounder in the boat. Third pass hit the mother lode of slime - a 61 pound blue cat that thought it weighed a hundred!! The pic wasn&#39;t too good as the fish was unhappy with me and flopped around a bunch. Seems I am losing my ability to subdue and lift those big fish and take multiple pics of them by myself. I could only catch one more in the hour and a half after that, a 12 pounder, but it was really hard to be upset, so I gave up.<br /><br />I had Twizzlers for lunch...............
emoBig ) so I, being the man if the house and can therefore do anything that I want, shut off all of the lights and sat in the dark ignoring the little booger-faced children who were beating on my door and ringing my doorbell trying to get treats from me, and instead watched football and baseball and ate all of the candy that my wife believes was handed out.<br /><br />I went to bed and had nightmares of being &quot;stoned&quot; to death with miniature Hershey bars by a horde of snot-nosed kids in masks while their irate mothers looked on......................<br /><br />Woke up this morning with a bellyache and all of my teeth had rotted and fallen out.<br /><br />To atone for my sins, I decided to skip breakfast (there were a couple of strawberry Twizzlers left over sticking out of the cushions of the couch) and headed directly for the river since the TVA gods had decided to bless us with great water flow. First pass netted a nice 9 lb blue before I was even fully set-up. Second pass put a 7 pounder in the boat. Third pass hit the mother lode of slime - a 61 pound blue cat that thought it weighed a hundred!! The pic wasn&#39;t too good as the fish was unhappy with me and flopped around a bunch. Seems I am losing my ability to subdue and lift those big fish and take multiple pics of them by myself. I could only catch one more in the hour and a half after that, a 12 pounder, but it was really hard to be upset, so I gave up.<br /><br />I had Twizzlers for lunch...............