A successful shore outing…

So in spite of my best efforts to the contrary, I wasn’t able to work out a ‘toon ride today… but we did venture a bit further from home and hit one of the St Croix tributaries in my wife’s old stomping grounds.

We did well… several major clicker runs, Scary Jeff landed a PB sheephead (4.7 lbs) and I pulled in a channel that ran 27×15 for 7.8 lbs. Not a new PB but def a fun catch. He’s in the fridge waiting for a blanket of my super-secret catfish breading and some hot oil.

NOM.

We normally only fish Metro rivers, 99% the Miss. We’ve hit the ‘Croix a few times, but we’ve never really ventured too far beyond those two rivers. So this was a new experience. And I was honestly impressed with the fishing.

But the mosquitos got so bad at one point that I felt like the Brave Little Tailor… I got 7 with one blow! A campfire did the trick to mellow the bugs out though.

All in all, it was fun, and I’d consider it a very successful day on new water.

Nice report, that was a pretty good sized drum and nice channel cat…

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…the mosquitos got so bad at one point that I felt like the Brave Little Tailor… I got 7 with one blow!

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BLT – there’s a blast from the past…for anyone not familiar, BLT is a classic Disney short!
Brave Little Tailor

Scary Jeff hasn’t changed much. He’s still scary with that Heavy Duty stringer in the sheeper.

Yeah, I told him to lip it for the shot, but every time he tried to lip the fish it would flop, he’d jump, finally he’s like “Dude, just take the $%&^ picture.” lol

Maybe I should start calling him Scaredy Jeff instead?

I know, not fair to pick on the guy in his absence.