The Big

[ollie]

Awesome day of fishing on Big Sugar yestrerday. We got brave and decided to get up at five and be on the water as the sun was coming up. It was a wise choice indeed. The water and weather was just perfect. Before we launched the boats we saw plenty of deer on the way in. We launced at Cyclone and floated down to Deep Ford on this trip. There were three of us and we all caught fish. I dominated the goggle-eye , our friend Coop seemed to like swimming more than fishing, and my neighbor out fished all of us. Coop just couldn't keep out of the strainers! We told him not to put that cooler full of soda and water on the back of his yak, but he didn't listen. At least he recovered all his stuff. I caught a few smallies with the biggest around 12". I was using jigs and hellgies. My neighbor caught the biggest one of the day at 16". It was a fat toad with a nice girth. Caught that one on some sort of curly tail grub in green. Had to stop at Big Rock and chat with Russ. Not sure why they let him in there? Good seeing you again Russ. We had a good time on the water and caught plenty of fish to make things interesting. We all got into trouble when we got home also. The warden wasn't pleased to see us home later than promised! Oh well, mine knows better than to expect me home when I go fishing.