Since the turkeys have been giving me, and everyone else, the silent treatment, I told turkey season goodbye by going to the Garhole fishing Saturday. The Garhole boat was bunged up a little in the high water and although it was straightened out a little I wanted to check it out by fishing in it. Since the rain and the loggers, the road has been posted “ATV Only” so I packed up all my gear on the Yamaha 4 wheeler and drove down. The mosquitoes and gnats were present in force, especially on the bank. I had my Buggins for the gnats, but it does not help with the mosquitoes. This shortens the boat preparation time as it puts you in a hurry. The sun protection that I wear gives good protection from the gnats but the mosquitoes can bite right through it if it is touching the skin. First cast was at 8:15. Another person was fishing and had been there since daylight and they allowed that they had caught a few early on a buzz bait but that things had slowed. Indeed ! 11:00 and still no fish in the boat. A precious few bites but none in the boat. Finally at 11:15 a 3 1/4 hit a swim jig when it came across the end of a green bush in shallow water. The skunk was gone. A skunk in the Garhole would be a major negative event. A little later a 3 3/4 hit the swim jig after missing on the first try. I reached a place where I thought a worm would be better and it was, because I caught 3 in succession. Back on the swim jig, I hung on a root when I cast at a vertical bank. I jiggled the bait trying to get it loose and a tighteye tried to help and after 4 try’s finally did by knocking it loose and swimming off with it. It was too small and did not have the hook in its mouth when I set the hook. There were two other instances where my bait was hung on something and a fish should not have been caught but was. I made a cast under a cypress tree that had a 1 inch vine hanging down vertically. The line wrapped around because of a sidearm cast and the bait came down and just touched the water. A fish hit it immediately and to my surprise hung itself. I rushed over and retrieved it. Later I saw a fish hit under some cottonwood cotton and other debris. When I cast a worm over, it hit the bank that was covered with vines and got hung. All the shaking in the world wouldn’t get it loose. Already right on top of the fish, I grabbed the swim jig rod and just dropped the bait through the cotton. The fish grabbed it and ran and later came to the boat. A few more fish and it became hard to get a bite. Thinking about how bad the bugs would be around dark, I quit at 4:00. I caught an even 20 with the aforementioned 3 3/4 FOD. In fishing in the boat all day I came to the realization that a deck replacement is not necessary. It appears a limb fell on the front deck and scarred it in two places rather than a rodent. I believe some heavy painting over the two damaged places will do the trick. A thorough leaf blower cleanout would not hurt either.