Don't look but more catfish...

What the world needs now, besides another catfish photo is more light tackle fishing. While Cathy and Matt sit at the front of the boat probing the brushy shallow water pockets on our Friday afternoon trip I sat at the back and fishing just a bit deeper along a structure break in more open water scored this 6 pound 9 ounce blue cat on 8 pound test line. That's some kind of metaphor of life right there. Cut it close, don't play it safe, take a chance on getting your rig wrecked and broke you can pick what it means to you. It's my second 6 pounder since December. Final fish total was 20 fish this trip.  

Speaking of fishing the brushy pockets here is Matt giving a lesson. You have to have skills casting to put the bait right into one little particular pocket the fish may be preferring. Click on the photo and you will see his day glo yellow slip cork looped over a limb on the right side of the picture. 

This cat tried to help him pull it loose. 

The method to this fishing madness is tying up the boat with the wind. We were able to retrieve this fish and the hardware by letting the rope out to drift to the fish and then pulling it back into place. We were just lucky. We loose a good many slip corks fishing like this. Out on this open sand bar we sometimes gather them up later but often when fishing the flooded forest they drift on back on a joy ride carried by wind current to some deep woods grounding far from where the normal pool level will be later this summer. 

From the water marks on trees the lake is dropping fast. Enjoy the high water while you can. As for us and to answer inquires we have had lately about fish fries we donated 20 pounds of fillets to cousin Runt's mother's 90th birthday party. We have some travel plans upcoming so after that we start over filling the freezer.