November Garhole
Thursday, November 11th, 2010 | Author: admin
Not too many places to fish where I’ve been lately.
But I’m back, and Wednesday we attacked the Garhole in two boats. Frank Smith and Mickey in one and Hunt Lowery and me in the other. Of course we wanted to catch some fish but mainly we wanted to invite some to Frank’s house to supper. The Garhole has too many 12 inch bass that need to be reduced in numbers so as not to be overpopulated. We released all over 13 inches. This is a picture of Hunt and a nice Garhole bass.
We had great fun. One unnamed party even got hung far up in a tree and had to get my lure retrieving pole to rescue his bait. He left his rod hanging in the tree when he came to get the pole. Of course that had to get on the Bitespot.
Hunt and I were rounding a point where Hal, Mack and I had a casting contest in our high school days and in that contest Hal caught a fish that was strange to us, a chain pickerel. I was telling him the story, when Mickey shouted from the other boat that he had just caught a chain pickerel, his second of the day. What a coincidence.
The two boats caught 108 fish for the day, 28 of which were invited for supper . They came and were delicious. Most were caught on spinnerbaits and on worms. I even caught 2 on a swimbait. The FOD was 3 – 12. It seems to be the spinnerbait time of the year. The last few trips a spinnerbait has been THE bait.
Speaking of spinnerbaits being THE bait, I made a catch at Beaverdam yesterday that no one I’ve mentioned it to has ever heard of happening. I caught a 12# Buffalo on a spinnerbait. It was in two feet of water and the commotion was incredible. For two or three seconds,I thought I had an 8# bass. Had a hard time getting it in the boat because Hal kept saying “I ain’t putting my hands on that slimy thing”!
kind of like when Willie wanted to keep a gar. I told to lift it over into the ice chest. I’m not putting that stinking slimy thing in the floor of the boat.