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Pegleg
04-27-2008, 10:32 AM
My Daughter and her boyfriend invited me to go with them on their pontoon boat Saturday. There was a bass tourny goin on at the river so we had trouble findin a place to launch. I've never seen the river so busy. We cruised around and watched some of the guys catchin bass till it was weigh in time and they all hauled axx to the ramp at Dunellon. It was like watchin a bass boat race there for a while. :icon_razz: After things settled down we started workin the edges of weed matts with curly tail jigs and "Maki Micro Plastics" on tiny 1/32 oz. jigs. Seems like everytime we stopped and fished we caught a few big shellcrackers and bullgills. I guess all the boat traffic got em stirred up. We ended up with around 40 hand sized bream. We where about five miles from the ramp when it got dark. Thats when we found out the lights didn't work and my daughter Lisa forgot to bring the gear bag with the flashlights and skeeter repellant. While Lisa's boyfriend worked on the wireing I baited up with chunks of hotdog and caught a dozen big fat bullheads and one huge mudfish (bowfin). We got the rear nav. light and a old foglight to work. So we headed back to the ramp with the fog light showin the way. :confused0018:
The fishin part of the trip was great but the boat is gonna need some repairs on the elec. system before the next cruise. :icon_mad:
Pegleg

Fishaholic
04-27-2008, 11:07 AM
all in a days fishin..lol...

Stump Bumper
04-27-2008, 05:33 PM
Sound's like ya'll had a great time....and....caught a mess of fish....Ray

gofish
04-27-2008, 08:08 PM
too bad bout the lights but at least ya got a bunch of good eats

Sharon
04-28-2008, 08:50 PM
Sounds like a good day any way Pegleg!
I found out at this lake I live at.. there are some huge bass in it. One they say is about 12lbs... Ill believe that when I see it.. everyone throws it back though.. just catch, take pics and release. Guess that big old bass is a resident LOL

Pegleg
04-30-2008, 08:45 AM
Thats a big ole bass. One of these days I'll come down there and we'll try to catch it.

Illinoisgiller
04-30-2008, 09:02 AM
Sounds like a good day onm the water Pegleg. Bustin thos big gills down there would be a ball.A little boat trouble just brings out the handyman in folks. Thanks for sharing the experiance. Mike

eich
05-01-2008, 12:34 PM
Sounds like a great time. Family is what it is all about. The fishing and catching is secondary. Good job pegleg.

Ray