I had the pleasure of fishing with a fella I met on the banks of the ‘sippi a month or so a go.
It seemed like everytime he hooked or tried to hook a flathead..he had a break off. So I kinda nick named him Mr. Breakoff… from my understanding he’s had a few since then.
We set up on our first spot. It had wood, shallow, deep water and ROCKS…(thank you very much Whiskerkev! Didn’t work here, but it did later!) Natta fish was to touch our lines here tonight.
We moved to another location..no rocks here. We set up and Mr. Breakoff didn’t get a chance to open his Dew and his line was going out. I think I flustered him a bit when I kept asking what was taking him so long? He wheeled back on the rod…and…
Nothing be air!
He said that he was sure that fish was at least 46 pounds..two pounds bigger than Dennis Steels fish of a couple weeks ago. I didn’t think he felt it…just got air..but I guess it doesn’t matter…it just was bigger then Dennis’s!
We yapped there for a while longer…noticing that there were falling stars out tonight. As long as you wore long pants and not shorts (like some people did) it was a fantastic night to be out….Moving on to our next location.
He was into his first hook up of the night…I had my finger crossed to help ensure that his line wasn’ going to break…it didn’t. He landed a nice little 10 pounder.
After watching some more stars fall…we moved on to our next spot.
This one did have a bunch of rocks…and Breakoff landed a small fish right away…He wouldn’t let me take a picture of him with it
Set the lines out again and WHAM one from just to the side of the rocks…Mr Breakoff handled this fish well. Once in the boat she came in at 26 pounds. She was going to be the last and largest for the evening. In fact, this is his largest fish todate!
Who is Mr. Breakoff you ask?
He’s non other than our own HANSON…one of the moderatores on FishingMN and a (can I say this?) lurker on IDA
Let me know when we are going again Chris! It was fun..and don’t forget about icing a few channels this winter!