So I’m back, and finally have the energy to write this, a few days or ‘working rest’ is all it took! I didn’t get the Monday after the trip off, so it’s been a pretty tough week. The trip was a blast, it seems to have renewed my interest in fishing, enough that I’ve taken steps to get my boat back in order, which will be around $300 all told, and that’s before and inevitable, but unwanted, unexpected problems crop up.

Nobody seemed to remember to set the alarm Friday night, so we got up late, to the sound of Don beating on our window. Oops. We were not actually late for the tournament, but we didn’t have any wake up time. I caught my first fish within ten minutes of arriving at our first spot, right outside the lili pads on a Pop-R, that felt good! Sadly, that was it until later in the afternoon until I coaxed a fish out of a stump by some pads later in the day. I take that back, I caught some non-keeper fish, but I wanted keepers!

The second day we caught fish almost all day long, sadly none were large enough to keep, but it sure was fun. I set the hook on two of them, one on a Fluke, another on a Jig, so hard that the poor fish came flying toward me out of the water, that’s how small they were. The total weight that won the 2-day event was 10.4 pounds, the winner actually had 5.2 pounds on both days, with 2 fish on Saturday and only 1 on Sunday.

Can’t wait to go back!

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