04-01-2003, 05:11 PM
28 MARCH 2003 FISHING TRIP 8.8#BASS 9.7#BASS WE LEFT DOCK TO TAKE JIM LOVE AND LOUIS LEAL SOME CLIENTS FISHING. WEN CAUGHT 36 BASS. JIM HAD CAUGHT A 9.2# BASS LAST TIME HE WENT WITH ME AND HE WAS READY TO CATCH FISH. WE WERE CATCHING 23 TO 4.8# BASS. JIM WAS THROWING BABY TORPEDO AND LOUIS WAS USEING WORMS. ALL OF JIMS FISH WERE SMALLER THAN OURS SO WE ACUSED HIM OF GETTING THE LITTLE ONES OUT OF THE WAY SO LOUIS AND I COULD CATCH THE BIG ONES. HE FINALLY HOOKED A BIG ONE AND HE REALLY GOT EXCITED WHEN IT GOT UP TO BOAT. HE HOLLERED GET NET AND LOUIS WAS TOO SLOW. HE WAS REALLY EXCITED AND JUST KNEW IT WAS GOING TO GET OFF. HE ONLY HAD 12# TEST LINE AND FISH WAS A BIG ONE. 8.8# TO BE EXACT AND JIM WAS ABOUT TO TEAR UP BOAT BY TIME WE LANDED IT AND HE GOT IT BACK IN WATER. WAS FULL OF EGGS!! HE WOULD THROW A STRIKE KING SPINNER BAIT WILLOW LEAF BLADES WITH BLUE AND WHITE SKIRT. WE HAD A GOOD EVENING AND A LOT OF FISH. WE WENT OUT SUNDAY MORNING AROUND 7:00 A.M. AND THE FISHING WAS SLOWER THAN THE EVENING BEFORE AS A FRONT HAD COME THROUGH BUT WE WERE STILL CATCHING FISH. JIM HAD TOLD ME THE NIGHT BEFORE THAT HE WOULD GIVE ME ONE MORE CHANCE TO PUT HIM ON A BIG FISH. WE FISHED ALL MORNING AND CAUGHT FOURTEEN LARGE MOUTH BASS AND AT 11:05 I TOLD THEM ONE MORE CAST AND WE HAD TO GO IN. THERE WAS A CUT AND I TOLD JIM TO CAST OVER THERE SO HE PICKED UP HIS SPINNER BAIT AND AS SOON AS IT HIT THE WATER A BIG BASS HIT IT AND THE FIGHT WAS ON. WE GOT HER UP TO THE BOAT AND JIM SAID SHE IS BIGGER THAN THE ONE YESTERDAY AND THEN HE GOT EXCITED. LOUIS STARTED TO GRAB HIS LINE TO NET IT BUT I TOLD HIM NOT TO AND FOR JIM TO PLAY HER SOME MORE AND LED HER UP TP NET. SHE WAS BIGGER THAN NET SO LOUIS TOOK HIS OTHER HAND AND GUIDED HER IN SO WE COULD GET HER IN BOAT! SHE WEIGHED 9.7# SO JIN TOOK HER MEASUREMENTS SO HE COULD HAVE A REPUCLA MADE FOR HIS WALL.23"LONG GIRTH 151/2" BELLEY 161/2".HE THANKED HER AND TOLD HER HE WAS SORRY FOR KEEPING HER OUT OF WATER SO LONG. REVIVED HER AND TURNED HER LOOSE TO LAY HER EGGS!! NEEDLESS JIM SAYS I AM STUCK WITH HIM FROM NOW ON! FUN WAS HAD BY ALL!!DENNY UPHAM-GUIDE HALLIBURTON MANOR LAKE WEST COLUMBIA, TEXAS
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