The One That Got Away...

Nine is an important number. The Beatles had a song called Revolution #9. A posthumous Jimi Hendrix album (Jimi was making money he couldn't spend) was called Nine to the Universe. I know from our own personal experience of studying Korean Martial Arts that they thought 9 was the perfect number. And to put a fine point on this, Saturday morning Cathy caught a 9 pound 10 ounce catfish.  

What is also remarkable is that she hooked a fish that she could not turn back to the boat on the cast before this one. We are guessing something quite a bit bigger as Cathy's gear has put fish to 10 pounds in the boat easily. The biggest fish were coming off the bottom in 33' of water. 

Matt lands a nice blue. 

I get a pretty good one. 

Another shot of the big one on the cleaning table. Those other fish ran right at 3 pounds so that's 6 fish totaling a little over 20 pounds. All total we had 43 catfish. 8 pounds of blue cat fillets and 8 pounds of channel cat fillets.  

One more shot of big boy. He swam in our bellies not long after this photo. 

For you bird watchers we saw the first migrating pelican from the Great Lakes region. More will follow. 

Looks like this crew of pot likkers, pirates and nere do wells plan on a Christmas day catfish trip. We will see what kind of presents Santa leaves under the tree stump.