She did it!!!

Please read the previous post... then you will understand. :)

UGGGGGHHHHHH!!!! WOOKIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

This post is created with much frustration... A perfect night for fishing... absolutely beautiful moon, pond like glass, plenty of bugs... I caught six fish myself... and Wookie had landed herself two or three and then she began to run into some trouble with casting, lure issues and then finally, snaggin my line and causing the biggest god foresaken tangle between our lines, that I have ever seen. After, no joke, twenty minutes I managed to get her line free from my line, untangle her lure and the nightmare of tangles on her line alone and began to work on my tangled line. Wookie takes a cast and instantly, the infamous lunker noise, glump... and in she reels the beauty you see here!!! I am so psyched for her I am screaming, ready to tip over the canoe. Little did I know that, Wookie, the big tough Wookie, would herself start to panic... refusing to touch this 4 lb 1oz fish herself, saying " Jamp, that is all you!" WHAT!!!! I said. YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HOLD THIS FISH!!! So... there I was, holding this beautiful bass, having my picture taken, by her, with her fish. As you can see in most of the pictures I am none too thrilled... basically, because, well WHAT THE HELL!!!! ;) In honor of Wookie i cropped my face out of all the images that I coule. After a few shots by the camera and by me at Wookie... esentially degrading her Wookiehood, she agreed to hold it briefly... I had just enough time to snap a few pics of her with the fish, before she lost her mind. Regardless, good job Wookie! Congrats! It was a great fish. For all those interested, I stripped Wookie of her new fishing pole and she will now be using the Barbie fishing rod and reel package deal from Dick's, atleast until she can toughen up a bit.

Do they have fish this big in the desert?

42lbs, 46inches. Enough said!

Life's a beach...

MORE BEACH, LESS FISH...SOMETIMES THATS HOW IT GOES.

Fishin' and singin'

Check him out... bigger than my lunker from the other night? You be the judge! Have not done much fishing since that lunker... just the night after, when I caught this here beauty. Been spending most of my time at the beach during the day.
On a side note... Thursday I went to the Narrows Center for the Arts to see a performance. I would just like to get it out there that you MUST listen to the music of Boris McCutcheon. Take a listen and you will understand... it is some lovely music to fish by. www.borismccutcheon.com
Thanks for reading. Fish On!

Curious...

Whenever I catch a lunker and then see it on film , I ALWAYS question myself if it was actually as big as I thought it was... and I always wonder if I actually caught something the same size before or if this fish isnt any bigger than any of the others that I thought were lunkers... so I am going to post comparison shots of the other lunker I caught this summer from the dock... which is exactly the same spot I caught this fish tonight... same fish? Who knows... would be interesting if you could tag them some how.

... and then I taught them how to fish

Once the dark of night swept the pond and all my work complete... I decided to head down to the pond and show Wookie and Hooper how to catch some fish. The following pictures will show you that I showed them EXACTLY how it is done. Yes, I know there are MANY pictures of this ONE fish... but I couldnt help it... it was HUGE... not so much in length, only 20 inches... the gerth of the fish was amazing. As you know I always feel like the fish just dont present well in pictures... always look so much smaller... but trust me this one is definately a first cousin of Old Man Sawdy, I like to call her Betty. No smoke and mirrors with these pictures... you know, no holding the fish closer to the camera... I tried to hold her near the reel to be able to compare the size...
As you can tell I was "slightly" excited... I know, i know... I take TERRIBLE pictures... I NEVER said i was photogenic... but i will say I know how to catch the lunkers... skill is way better than being able to strike a pose... ha ha ha . This was the ONLY fish I caught on my portion of the trip... but you know how it goes...a Master merely has to strike once to get her point across.