[Alphahawk]

Seems the only pics I have lately are of imaging. Wanted to go to Pickwick today but will hit it tomorrow. Just wanted to get out in the kayak and get a little seat time before heading to Arkansas. I didn't catch any fish today. This summer I have spent more time in the kayak than ever during late summer. Usually this time of year I am on the bank at Pickwick. I had a light action rod that had a broken tip and I put a new tip top on but it made the rod really stiff for casting UL baits. So my idea was to spool it up with 4# test and use as a vertical jigging rod for deep water Gills. Well I headed to VFW...even though I have not had much luck there this year.....and found out I had left my hooks and weights at the house. So I put a Rapala UL3 on it and put it in the rod holder and started paddling around the lake. I passed over a school of fish and very shortly after I heard the rod clunking around in the rod holder behind me. The rod has virtually no flex and when I pulled it out and started fighting the bass I knew I had the drag set way too tight for such a stiff rod. One jump and a flip of the head and he was gone with my Rapala UL3....LOL. I just paddled over the whole lake several times today looking and fishing but not catching. Just as I had the kayak on the trailer and tied down a hatchery truck shows up with a load of fish. Hoping it would be a bunch of 3 inch Gills to get the lake back full of Gills again I was disappointed to learn it was 1100 catfish from 5 to 13 inches. I had already marked a lot of catfish today and had the kayak not been loaded I would have been casting into those...LOL. Just with that load alone...not counting how many already there..and there are a bunch.....that figures out 51 cats to the acre. Pretty good odds of catching catfish there...but it always has been. Oh well...there is always tomorrow..

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