Went out to bait some areas so that I could catch some carp and buffalo for bait
without too much trouble and seen some birds workin hard up the arkansas river
arm of keystone ... I had my fishin poles and throw net but didn't have my big
bait well with me but thought I'd go ahead and hit it and see if them birds
wasn't lieing to me. I went up in the cove northwest of cowskin bay and caught
shad then went back to the birds and threw one out. when I threw out the shock
line knot hung and birdnested my reel. it also broke the line so I was hanging
onto the shock line and tryin to get the bird nest out which wasn't all that
bad. before I got the birdnest out and fish hit the line that I was hanging onto
... put the rod down and handlined an 8 lb blue into the boat ... I got the rod
rigged back up but left the shock line off it and threw back out and got another
one about 15 lbs before I could get the second pole out ... then I went ahead
and rigged up two more poles and it wasn't necessary cause I couldn't keep up
with two poles ... caught around 35 fish and about 12 were between 15 and 25 lbs
... didn't have my camera with me cause I wasn't planning on fishing but I
brought some smaller ones home. I jammed my knee real good trying to step up on
the front deck with nothing to hang onto and fell back down and now I'm trying
to figure out how I'm goin to clean those fish ... can't hardly stand up now and
ain't figured out how I'm going to get the fish cleaned either. I made a few
calls to neighbors but no one's home so I'm hoping this pain meds will allow me
to get back out there and get the fish taken care of.
Overcast skies and
then got rained out after about two hours of fishing.
water temp was 61
degrees and muddy
bait was cut shad
hooks were gamakatsu wide gap
octupus that I'd offset with pliers
rods bps muskie graphite
series
penn 209's spooled with 25 lb stren high impact
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