8/26/2006

Fished this morning for about an 90 minutes. Fished the southside of the northpool. Managed to land one 12" LMB, but that was it. :lol: I had several other strikes but lost both of them. All were with a Yum Crawbug. I tried some other plastics and a number of hard baits, but no other takers. I talked to a couple of old timers that sounded like they fish there a lot and they said that the fishing has been real slooooooow. One of them told me that he watched a guy land like 12 bass on the south pool this morning using some sort of plastic worm.

Now onto the part that really made me mad. There was a guy fishing in the northpool using 3 rods, 2 with live bait and 1 with lures. He landed a 24" northern using a lure and instead of releasing the fish, he walked back around to the other side where his other poles and tackle were. He plopped the fish down on the grass and then proceded to set up a tripod and then a camera on the tripod. Then he was messing around with the camera to frame the best picture. All the while this was going on the fish was flopping around on the land. After about 3 minutes of the fish being out of the water I finally started to walk over to him. He proceded to take a picture then place the fish back down and set his camera up again, take another picture, and another. I finally yelled at him to get the fish back into the water ASAP, which he finally did. I told him that it was probably dead. He said it wasn't, but it was belly up and barely alive. I finally just walked away very frustrated. :evil:

I just don't understand some people. Obviously he was very excited to catch such a nice fish, but he walked right by another fisherman that could have taken a picture for him.