Hello! I wanted to give a little story of my fishing trip this past weekend. I went bass fishing on the Alabama river for spots and large mouth, but I was also planning to try catfishing for the first time in decades. Well, the bass fishing wasnt going well and I only got one bite which I missed. So I decided to try catfishing. Catfishing went worse than bass fishing due to numerous rookie mistakes. I had problems with the newly spooled catfish line, the wind was blowing, horrible bait selection, etc. Well, just as I was about to pull the anchor and head to the boat ramp I hear a big commotion behind me. A school of shad got hammered by what seemed like a school of game fish. I spun around quickly, grabbed my rod with a spinner bait, and cast right into the ruckus. Within a few reels of the spinner lure, it was fish on! This guy was fun to fight, mainly due to his running. Im guessing he was about 5 or 6 pounds, and I believe it's a striper, but not sure. Not a monster by any means, but I was just as happy to catch him! (I was going to upload a photo but it says the file is too big)
So what started out to be an unsuccessful fishing trip turned out to be wonderful fishing trip!
