The older you will get...: Almost Jinxed Ourselves...

Have you ever been hot on the fish and then you invite a friend, maybe one that does not fish much to get in on the fun and when you get him or her on the lake the bite shuts down? This does not happen to us much but if it does when we return to the boat ramp we gather around the unfortunate person, jump up and down, pointing as we shout, "He a Jonah, He a Jonah!"

We did not do this yesterday but did almost jinx ourselves by stopping by the old fishing hole after an afternoon of knee boarding and tubing on Saturday and amusing the grand kids with about 45 minutes of catch and release catfish. I could tell by the looks on a couple of people's faces as every fish was thrown back that they were thinking about supper. They thought we should have been keeping.

For the trip yesterday I had promised an old friend a mess of fillets and then invited my daughter's family for supper. It almost put the icing on the jinx because we struggled catch keepers throwing back a pile of undersized twisting and squirming blue cats.

It finally started to pay off though with a final tally of 26 keepers and Cathy taking big fish of the day. We have caught 175 fish in this spot over six trips going back to June. The lake has dropped from being 35 feet deep to 28 feet. Before the lake started dropping the fish would be suspended about 15' to 20' but yesterday most were caught closer to the bottom on Jpiggs punch bait.

Look who gets a good fish now and then. This place was overran with blue cats, most of them too small and many of the small keeper channel cats had eggs. It was a change because when we first started here we caught lots of small throw backs, had a couple of trips of better than average and quite a mixed bag of sizes today.