Just a feeling...

[BigBassin144]

Well yesterday my dad had to go in to work because they needed to finish a job that has to be done monday. I would've waited till today! Anyways, he called me and told me to get some fishing stuff ready cause he had a feeling to go fishing today. I was at the pet store getting some stuff for my Ball Python, so I couldn't do it until I got home. By that time we were later than we wanted to be, but we decided to go anyways.

So I'm getting stuff ready, when my dad tells me he can't turn the key in the boat. When we tried to turn the key, the whole key cylinder turned After about a half an hour my dad was able to get it fixed. So we headed up to Lake Hudson (a.k.a. Lake Mudson). We got there to find more there than we had ever seen. There were maybe four or five parking spaces left out of a maybe 3 dozen. So we launched the boat (while two more guys pulled in behind us. We get the boat in the water, and I remembered something. THE PLUG!

I asked my dad if he had put it in, since he normally does before we leave he house. he didn't... we put the front strap on the boat and bulled it out of the water enough to put the plug in (after it drained of course). Then we relaunched.

By the way, we were Musky fishing (you know, the fish of 10,000 casts (how many hours of trolling does it take to equal 10,000 casts??)) We hooked on our newly purchased (friday night) 4.5" baits (yes, bass lure sized...) and started trolling at 2-2.5mph (most people troll 4-5mph for Musky).

We trolled along the wind blown shore for around about 20 minutes when my rod bent in half. I though I hit the bottom until the rod straighten out and bent about 3 times! I jumped up, and could barely pull the rod out of the rod holder, and I finally got it. My dad had stopped the boat and started pulling in our 3 more lines.

My first Musky!!! I saw him in the water when he got close to the boat. He looked to be about 30-34" Which was perfectly fine with me seeing as he was my first. As soon as he was in the landing net, I new he was much bigger than I first though. He thrashed around in the boat before we could even get lcose to him to get him out of the net, or the hooks out of the next/him for that mater. After a while we got him.

He was an awesome 42" long and 21" in girth! He sure was fat! according to the Musky weight formula, we weight 23.15 lbs!!!!!!!!!! By far, the biggest fish I've ever caught!!!!

We continued to troll with another four hits (which alone is considered a good day in Musky fishing)

Now let me end my story with a celebratory WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the ever so humble,
BB