Only Took One Fish

[yaknar]

I was going to float down the river on Friday but the weathermen said storms on Friday morning, so trusting the weathermen, I took off Thursday instead. Rained Thursday morning, no rain Friday morning. But if you look at the river gauge, the rain did not make it down the river until Friday morning, 3 ft Thursday morning and 6 ft Friday morning. And I know I'm looking at height and not flow. For the first half of the float, fishing was somewhere below good and above poor so I'll call it fair, the second half I caught an occasional fish so poor. But I'm not a fish counter and sometimes it just takes that one fish that makes your day. Mine was a smallmouth in less than a foot of water. I cast a shallow crank as far as I could and the fish must have saw it coming. It took it as soon as it hit the water. I had a great time, trying to land the smallmouth, it keep trying to run and I had my drag set on light so I wouldn't loose it. It was all I needed to put a smile on my face the rest of the way down the river. I caught smallmouth, one cat, goggle eyes and pumpkinseeds. Lost a few lures, took a few picture and released them all.....great day on the river.....

[mreed81]

Sounds like a great day! It is funny how one fish can change the outlook and experience that you had on the water.