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Thursday, Oct. 07, 2004 - 10:53 p.m. Un-fuckin�-believable! The fishing after work tonight? Like the title said- unbelievable! Not at first- I only caught 1 fish in the first 30 minutes at the Wilburn creek access area on B.A.C.E. Lake. I talked to an old-timer, fishing in the same spot Lease and I landed 50 or so decent White bass on Sunday (along with 2 big Drum Perch, and a 10 pound Carp that took me 25 minutes to bring to the shore- I didn�t have the time to write about that here on Monday, and let it slide until now, but�), and he said �they aren�t biting! I have been down here for an hour, and have only caught a few� I am just glad I didn�t listen to him�. I leap-frogged him (no, that isn�t anything dirty- I just passed him on the bank) to fish the actual beach to the west. I managed to land a couple more fish using the same two jig rig Lease and I had so much success with only 5 days ago. But one thing caught my eye- thought the waves, I noticed that fish were breaking the surface further out from where I was casting. I had my other rod rigged with a � ounce spinner. That lure shouldn�t have worked this late in the season, but since it weighed more than my jigs, I gave it a shot. I caught 3 keeper Whites on my first 4 casts. And that was just the start. I stopped keeping all but the larger fish after 15 minutes. I had 10 nice fish in the bucket by then. In the next hour and 20 minutes, I averaged at least 1 fish per minute. I only threw deep hooked (and soon to die) fish, along with a few more very large fish into my bucket. I cleaned 19 nice fish at the fish cleaning station before I left. On top of that, I threw back at least 50 more fish that would have been keepers on any other day, along with another 50 or so smaller ones. No exaggeration- at least 100 fish were caught by yours truly in the next 80 minutes. How did I manage this, when the majority of the larger fish were away from the bank? Simple- I removed my shoes, and waded knee deep into early October waters to get myself close enough to the fish. No way I would have done this in November. I would have ended up with frostbite. But since the weather has been so unseasonably warm, the water felt like early September instead of early October. I was ready to leave at that time, but I couldn�t quit as long as the fish were striking so aggressively. As of this moment, I have at least three fingers with raw skin (from removing hooks for released fish), along with having both arms sore from fighting these strong fish. Lease and I have the next 4 days off. She already wants to go back to the beach tomorrow. Since a cold front is approaching, the fishing won�t be as good the next few days as it was tonight; I think we would be wise to wait a little bit. So I told her that Sunday or Monday would be better bets for more great fishing. No doubt about one thing- we will be back down there before we head back to work on Tuesday, Right now? I don�t know when that will be for sure. When we do make it back, and if the fish are biting? You will be the first to know� Since I get HBO here at Casa Roadiepig, I watch most all of their premium programs every week. I have tried to watch the humor of the following, but his anger is all I see� I keep hearing about what a great political commentator Bill Maher is. How witty he is, and how he brings people who don�t agree with him to their knees. I think this photograph sums up his �highbrow� humor to a tee: Yeah, that�s telling them, isn�t it? Funny guy (or so I keep being told)�..
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