Sweet Sweet Victory

[clayton86]

Wasn't a tourny but treated it like one.

Well the afternoon started out good went home did some cleaning then packed my gear to go fishing with my wifes nephew ryan for the last time befor I leave for training in ft. Drum for 3 weeks starting Sunday. So we pack up and head to my in laws to do laundry and get ryan sense he lives with his grandparents my mother and father inlaw. We pull in ryan come up on the lawn mower and says he will be ready in 30min when done mowing his gears in his truck ready to go.

So I start getting my poles set up changing some hooks out on some cranks tieing new things on and what not. I'm getting exited to go it was a perfict day we have a nice private lake we fish together because he's not allowed out there alone or with out me and vice versa I can't go out there alone and there's some giants out there so we gotta share.

He gets done mowing comes up and says "I gotta go to my buddys house quick to show him how much fishing stuff I got ill be back in 20 minutes tops" so I'm like yeah yeah ok what ever make it snappy. Well 20 minutes comes and goes so does 30 and a hour and so on till I'm. Really mad and 2 hours behind when I wanted to be out in the canoe. So my wife comes up and says just go to walmart pond because its close. So I head to walmart pond as we call it. Well I pull off the side the road and who's here ryan my wifes nephew.

Now I wouldent have been mad if he just said "hey I got plans with buddy" but no this is the 3rd day he's stood me up not to mention last weekend and the weekend befor that. So I just quitly get outa my truck and walk completly to the other side of this pond the less accesable side to fish. I start throwning tome t rigged lizards some jigs cranks the usual all with no luck. I notice him and his buddys arnt catching anything either.

So now I'm like well this was a waste of a day but then a light bulb went off and I decided let's go to last years money maker and threw on a weightless zoom super fluke in smoking shad but with a new twist. I smeared mega strike on it. First cast.......bam dink 8 incher but played it out like it was the next world record. I did this for the next hour in a half catching 37 bass all from just a few inches to a few pounds no monsters today. The whole time ryans over there shaking his head listning to his buddys ask what I'm using and going "hey ryan your uncle has another one what's he using" I watched between the 3 of them catch 5 fish all dinks to my 37 it was sweet.

Now befor I get people telling me I'm beating up some kid my nephew he's 19 and I'm 24 were more like brothers and best friends then the awww he's my little nephew. So all in all it was a decent day I. Woulda rather have fished some place else but when given lemons make lemon aid.

[Eddie Berndt]

Sounds like you had fun fishing. What was the biggest one you caught?

[Red]

I feel the same way when I land a nice one in my little 8' Buster right next to some dude in a huge glass boat. I can't help but smile really big!

[clayton86]

The biggest was maybe 2.5lbs but I went Ike over every fish and hookset. There was an awkward silence when I got to my Inlaws and he was on the couch. My father in law I guess tore him a new one when he got home. I wasnt even that mad I just like to rub it in his face when he talks smack and I show him up haha