Running free time

[DockShootinJack]

Persistence paid off.

[Ketchn]

Persistence paid off.

you can lead a horse to water and if you keep him there long enough he will in fact drink , this is one of the many ways to manipulate the outcome of a meeting , them there car dealerships just love to do that if you aint noticed ....

[Jamesdean]

did a bit of slipping into places back when myself , some were probably not the best idea , but never got in big trouble over it . one spot back in the day I had 1 big bass in the grass and a second one on when the security patrol came up behind me and asked "what do you think your doing" ?
I simply said ketchn fish sir and he said you "Can't do that here !" I told him "there isn't a fence or a sign and the road going by it is public access" . He was cool about it though and let me keep both fish with his stern instructions to leave . I wasn't near done with it though and asked "who" do I need to speak to about fishing in here ?
He gave me a name and I called that guy for a week every day and his secretary put me off every single time . Then one day he answered my call and we chatted for a long time and GUESS what .....
The CEO of Six Flags over Texas allowed me to hit that spot WITH permission as long as I parked way back up on the other end in the big cattails and don't bring anyone with me ! Told me to tell security to call him when they ketch me and it would be all good , as long as I stayed up on that end out of sight from the general public .
That spot had the biggest bream you ever seen in it up in them cattails and I often went there after work to ketch dinner with a 10 foot fiberglass reaching out to the cattail edges .

Back, many moons ago, I worked in the bake shop at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Va. It's a little known fact that employees can fish the water cruise lake when the park is closed. Let me tell you what, their are some huge gills back in the back bays in their. Learned it took a piece of worm and a clear bobber to ketch 'em. any thing else and it was skunk city...

[DockShootinJack]

you can lead a horse to water and if you keep him there long enough he will in fact drink , this is one of the many ways to manipulate the outcome of a meeting , them there car dealerships just love to do that if you aint noticed ....

Absolutely

[hdhntr]

amazing if you don't ask you will never get to fish or do anything you want to do. persistance does work.
it's like if you don't have a line in the water but stay home on the couch you will never do any ketchn.

good stories guys and you always seem ready to do some ketchn by taking your rod along Outlaw.

[happycaster58]

did a bit of slipping into places back when myself , some were probably not the best idea , but never got in big trouble over it . one spot back in the day I had 1 big bass in the grass and a second one on when the security patrol came up behind me and asked "what do you think your doing" ?
I simply said ketchn fish sir and he said you "Can't do that here !" I told him "there isn't a fence or a sign and the road going by it is public access" . He was cool about it though and let me keep both fish with his stern instructions to leave . I wasn't near done with it though and asked "who" do I need to speak to about fishing in here ?
He gave me a name and I called that guy for a week every day and his secretary put me off every single time . Then one day he answered my call and we chatted for a long time and GUESS what .....
The CEO of Six Flags over Texas allowed me to hit that spot WITH permission as long as I parked way back up on the other end in the big cattails and don't bring anyone with me ! Told me to tell security to call him when they ketch me and it would be all good , as long as I stayed up on that end out of sight from the general public .
That spot had the biggest bream you ever seen in it up in them cattails and I often went there after work to ketch dinner with a 10 foot fiberglass reaching out to the cattail edges .

Back in the 80s, my fishing partner and I used to wade fish in an untouched lake in the shadow of a nuclear power plant- not 150 yards from the cooling tower! We used to catch bass every cast for a solid hour too. Best fishing spot I have ever been to in my 60 years of fishing! Now, you will get shot if you walk into the area, if you can get that close. Now there is a guard gate a mile from the lake! Nothing's as good as it once was- EVEN ME!!! Might as well get used to it.

[Ketchn]

used to get to hit a lake on a golf course once a week in what is known as Las Colinas , only the extra wealthy in there for sure . back in day houses around the golf course were in the 3 to 4 mil range in the early 80eez .
one lady friend of mine had a little brother that still lived at home and no one would take him fishing , she explained that they had a pond behind the house on the golf course full of fish . Every tuesday the course was closed and Eddie-Mac and I would hit that little spot after the guard gates let me in with a sideways eye in my old rumbling chevy truck .
We had mini tournaments in there to see who could NOT ketch a fish first , it was in fact that stupid full of them ya"ll ....
many times someone would win at around 100 casts , never seen a small place with so many fish in it before that spot.