Blanked

Last Saturday myself, Bart, Unkie Larry, and my cousin's husband, Bridger, went out to Fobb Bottom to see if we could make it three straight. as you can tell from the title of this post it sucked, we only caught one fish. So I will give this one up to Texoma, but April is around the corner and the sandbass are about to start hittin and we will be busier than a one legged man in an @ss kicking contest!

It's all over but the frying

So round 2 of my fishing adventures for the year took place this weekend when me and Big Mike went out to Texoma again. We started off by going back to the spot that I caught the big cat but the wind was out of the north and would have whipped us all day. We didnt realize how strong the wind was though until we had carried all of our crap down to the shore and if any of you have ever gone fishing with Big Mike you know how much stuff he likes to bring. After packing back up we went over the Fobb Bottom on the Oklahoma side of the lake. It was a pretty chilly morning with the overcast and wind but my 1:00 the sun was out and it was a nice day. No wild stories to mention like last time but we had a nice catch. 11 total fish were dominated, 7 were brought back to Texas (the other 4 were drums and we tossed them back) We caught 3 blue cats, 3 sandbass, and 1 striper. I'll chalk this one up as a victory for the good guys...... Tally to date: Doodle 2 - Texoma 0

Fat Cat

Last weekend my buddy Neildo, myself, and the old ladies went out to Lake Texoma to try our hand at catching a few fish. It is pretty early in the season and still pretty cold so expectations were low. The day started off with a little saning for some ghost minnows.

The day was awesome, about 65 degrees with no wind. The lack of wind was nice for the rest of the day but it made getting minnows difficult. After about 8 passes we only had about 20 minnows but being the worlds most out of shape man we started fishing.

After baiting up and cracking open a cold guy it didn't take long and we started getting a few bites. I think I pulled in the first fish of the day, a decent size striper, and we were on a roll. A little while later Neildo got a bite, he set the hook and started reeling, much to his suprise his reel wasn't set on his pole very well and it came off in the middle of the catch. I jumped up and held his pole while Neildo had the reel in one hand and reeled the fish in with the other.

An hour or so later we were still sitting around and enjoying the day when my pole had a big hit on it. I grabbed it set the hook and the fight was on. I could tell I had a good one but did not expect what came next. The fish started jumping as I was bringing it in but I still didn't expect to see this...

I got this beast about 2 ft from the bank and my line snapped. Neildo and I jumped into the water and started to roll it up on the bank. Once I got it home and put it on the scales it weighed in at exactly 50lbs!!! This was by far the biggest cat I have ever caught.

The rest of the trip was quite successful we ended up with 8 stripers, 3 sandbass, and 2 blue cats (including the beast above). I'll put up some pics of the rest of the catch later.