Slow nite on Wylie Wed.
Cspen and I finally got to talk on the phone yesterday and decided to go out last nite. I told cspen to meet me at the Allison Creek launch and he promptly drove from his home near Hickory to the Buster Boyd launch. He finally figured out that the two were different places (that's why there's two different names I guess) and got to Allison about an hour late. The time waiting for him went by quickly. When I got to the launch there was a guy up to his boobs in the water messin with his trailer. As it turned out, the water at the launch was plenty deep even tho the lake has been severely drawn down (my floating dock isn't) but the ramp was too short. He had driven the trailer off the end of the ramp and the wheels had dropped about 2 feet. Finally a guy with a winch on the front of his truck helped get the trailer out by wrapping the cable around a piling next to the sunken trailer and sort of lifting the rear end up til it could be pulled forward.
Anyway, cspen got there and we headed out for a spot not too far from the launch and got set up. It started slow and stayed that way, Cspen was lookin to get into some catfish along with catchin crappies and I assured him that would be no problem. Of course it WAS a problem. He cut a small crappie for bait and set out a catfish rod. The clicker on his reel started to sound off and cspen set the hook. It was a fairly heavy rod and had a real nice bend in it. He got the fish near the surface and I was there with the net when it got off. Never saw the fish but we could tell it was a 10lb class one. We had 2 other cats break off. Only ended up with 9 crappie, one of which was a slab. After readin what Rango and Tool did the previous nite cspen declared he was ready for another Wylie trip---just not with me...
One taste of the bait
is worth the pain of the hook
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