I finally got to wet a hook.....

[66KingFisher]

For only the second time this year I got to go fishin....ain't that terrible? Anyway, I realized my buddy that I fish with and that has a boat was too busy and just not interested enough to make the time to go fishin lately. So after several repeated offerings from him to let me take his boat I decided to take him up on it and ask the wife if she's like to go with me since it was her day off. To my surprise she said yes.....so she ran to Walmart and got herself a fishin license and she insisted she use her own fishin pole, so we dug her crappy old $19 Zebco spinning combo outta the closet and I spooled it up with new line and off we went for an afternoon of something....either we'll have fun or we'll be callin for an ambulance or sumthin????

It was a typical blue sky day without a cloud in the sky.....has been ever since the rains stopped a few days ago......the water was really murky from all the run off, but was a warm 75 degrees. I never know what the cathair to start fishin with on a day like this.....I swear.....I read and read and research and then I dunno what to do.....Jeeeeez

Not to mention I had new tackle thats been sent to me since the storm that ate my old stuff.....alot of the new lures i'd never used before, so I just had too many choices....aaaarg....what to do? So I decided to tie a chartruese spinnerbait on for the wife figuring it'll be her best bet and simple to use....throw it out and wind it back, and only one hook to deal with....so she's all set.....Well, once she gets all her tanning lotions applied and her pepsi and snackbar all set up, and her bathin suit all adjusted correctly and her hair tucked inside her hat just right and her sunglasses cleaned and positioned correctly that is.......NOW she can lounge back in the chair and start fishin....lol

Ok she's all set now what the heck am I gonna use cause I just gave her what I would've probably started with any other time, and I didn't want to throw the same thing she had sooooooooooo....I went with some plastics and tied on an anaconda and we're off.

My first cast with my old Abu 5500 resulted in a birdsnest bout the size of yer fist......Aaaaaaarg......not the way to start out.....so after bout 15 seconds of pickin at it I just put it down and picked up my only other rod, my bps extreme and fished with that instead.....I eventually came back to the Abu once I remembered Kevins backlash trick....it took me a few minutes but it worked and I was back to two rods.....Thanks Kevin.

We messed around in a cove near the boatramp for half an hour or so without a nibble so I headed up the lake to another cove that offered a touch of shade along the bank and it was a much faster dropoff into to deeper water than most of the surrounding shoreline.....the high water was well up into the vegatation on the bank so i'm pitchin up into that......I switched to a Spacemonkey for awhile and still wasn't doin no good. So I thought plastics might not be the way to go and tied on a shade colored DT4......dozen casts later i'd boated a nice little chunck of about a pound and a half or so......dozen casts or so later boom....another fish but I could tell it was a better fish......He went close to three pounds I'd suppose.....Now were talkin

I think it was about this time the wife said....."I need one of those things you've got tied on"....."Mines not working".....lol. I just said "honey your bait will catch fish, I promise, just stay with it awhile longer.....Fortunately she did and about 10 minutes later I feel the boat rockin and shes yellin "I got a fish, I got a fish".....lol And sure enough about that time a nice two pounder broke the surface and did a little dance for her......All I could think about was that crappy old rod and reel she was using and would it cave in or not....lol.....Thankfully it didn't and she was able to get it landed. I was tickled to death for her and she was pretty darn happy bout it too.....(I was glad the spinnerbait pulled thru for me)....lol.

We never caught anything else the rest of the trip, but we did have fun.....she must have caught a touch of fever.....bass fever that is cause she was constantly tellin me "I needed to move the boat to a new spot" cause she hadn't got a bite yet.....hehehehe.....it was funny....I'd just grin and say "Yes dear" and troll further down the bank.

She's already said something about "the next time".....so who knows she might become my regular partner or sumthin....lol.