Well it was a great night to end the Bell Plain Catfish league on Friday. The evening started off a little slow for my partner Jerry and I. The wind was blowing pretty good and it was chilly so we decided to try some different spots out of the wind.
It was a good call, after setting up anchor. I threw in a minnow and to my amazement I thought I immediately (I’m talking less than 10 seconds) had a snag and the boat was moving in the wind. So I reached for my rod I engaged my reel as I was pullin it out of the holder and it was almost pulled out of my hand by a 27lb flat setting the hook on himself.
That was followed by 3 channels. 2 were in the 5-7lb range and then a Pig that I thought for sure that was a flat by the way he was peeling line off my clicker, that tipped the scale at 11lbs.
Then came the HOG of the night a 48inch 38.11lb flat. He was a sneaky one. I heard my clicker do a short buzz, I thought it was my bait, (but after loosing one earlier) I picked up my rod and felt for tension. None…. I started slowly reeling in and was taking out the slack in my line and here it was traveling towards the boat and out into the river. I kept up with the fish and waited for him to turn, and set the hook. I was surprised at at the length on this one. He was a little on the lean side in girth.
I lost a fish earlier in the night because it did the same thing and moved into a snag that cut my mono. Good thing I learned from my mistake.
Since I was fishing the BP contest and another online contest this was quite the night to put a couple of Big fish in the boat and on the board.
I did want to also mention that I had the opprotunity to see a new bait work. My boat mate caught a nice 26inch channel on a Frog. He has been doing very well in catchin fish in the upper 20inch catagory using it for bait.
Dtro had a great night as well. He and Hanson weren’t to far away from us and I look forward to him sharing his story with us.
