The Doing Holidays Right Catfish Blog Post...

It was a pretty quiet Labor Day Weekend Saturday on the lake. Not many boats out at all. Our favorite boat ramp was back open after a couple of spring incidents that involved 25 inch rains and Hurricane Beryl but looks like after the flooding and due to fallen and standing dead trees the campground will not be open for months. There was a pretty good chop on the water when we arrived but we motored up the lake to be sheltered and after a good blow it calmed.   

 After a fun live music show yesterday and fishing trip this holiday weekend made me feel that in our retirement, after careers that involved working weekends, holidays, nights and sometimes 24/7 attention we are finally learning how to do holidays right.  

This is our first real catfishing trip since spring though there has been lots of swimming, tubing and beach fishing. For the yearly total we had 17 cats caught in 30' of water suspended just a little off the bottom. We weren't in our usual spot because I saw some guy on the internets said he always fished in sight of the bird nest. We threw back a bucket load of small ones. 

We been catfish hungry and Cathy's eyes were bigger than her appetite because she wanted them all fried and swimming in her belly. I managed to save a couple of packages of the biggest fillets for grilling another day and fried up the rest with hushpuppies and homegrown okra. It was good and there are some left overs. 

Think I'll really get with the holiday and grill ribs tomorrow.