High Rock Lake Report 4/29/07

[Blue_Runner]

8am - Woke up at 8am and straight outside to ready the boat for the lake after church. *

10am *- Back in to get ready for church. *

10:30am - Went to church.

12 noon - Back home, change clothes, any last minute items, not exluding making 4 chicken breast sandwhiches (leftover grilled chicken breast from night before) with lettuce, mayo, salt/pepper, cheeze, pickle, and potato chips. *The sandwiches went into ziplocks and into the cooler for a dockside picnic later on.

1pm - Headed to the boat ramp - 10 minute drive.

Arrive some time after 1pm and launch the boat. *Begin making our way over to our place. *Its probably a 15 minute boat ride just taking it easy. *Have to go under 1 bridge which requires me to fold the bimini down.

We get there and tie the boat off. *I made a chumpot out of a 2 liter coke bottle. *Just put a dime sized hole near the bottom and filled 1/2 with catfood. *Then just tie on a rope, fill with water and tie off to the dock whereever you want. *

Once this was done I proceeded to throw the castnet. *(But not before polishing off a grilled chicken sandwich with lettuce, x-tra mayo, cheeze and a pickle with chips *;D)

1st cast I get a big haul of small threadfin herring - perfect crappie bait! *But the crappie were finicky so I went catfishing. *

My 9 year old's barbie rod went to screamin! *We had an "unstoppable". *I mean she pulled about every bit of line outta that thing. *We got it on video along with some other antics. *The thing is, the drag didn't work so I could not tighten. *This caused me to have to put line on by hand, which you can see in the vid. *Then trying to land the fish I had to pull it over some brush which eventually broke the line. *Bummer! *
Video:
http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...0429071535.flv

So, on to the next fish. *This one I landed on light tackle ;D
Video:
http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d7...0429071920.flv

Both were flathead cats plus or minus 10 lbs. *I would have weighed the 2nd one but my 9 year old was asleep in the cuddy and the scale was down below deck.

Here's some more pix:
A better pic of the 2nd 10 lber!


Funny thing here too - my little "Rat" dawg fell in the water twice - once getting off the boat and once becuase she saw a reflection on the trees from the sun shining on the water! *Scared her into the water backwards barking! *Too funny! *;D

More Rat Dawg pix:
Runnin 28mph

Rat Dawg and Daddy Dawg

Heres our little piece of High Rock heaven:
1972 singlewide LOL *8)

Jen and Donald and "Rat Dawg"

Last but not least, here is my 1972 V20 leaving my driveway last week *:'(