Friday night looked good for a short catten trip on the ‘sippi. Weather was good, wind was dying down…I knew I would need a jacket for the trip home, but still a comfortable ride.
I couldn’t stay out too late, thinking about heading in around 10:30 or 11 pm…but I have this bad habit of not looking at the watch when I’m fishing. Kinda seems to ruin the trip when I do that.
As I was getting ready to launch out of Everts, part time Everts resident Sean Lyons was sitting at the picnik table and I asked if he wanted to go on a short catten trip. Being he’s a closet cat guy in wallabe clothing, I figure he would go.
A few minutes later we were on our way. In just a few moments we had three bullheads out and one half of a dead sucker…’spose it would have to be dead if it was only half huh?
We were yapping away about Pool 4 and the awesome fishing it has year round…the freindliness of the guy that runs Everts and just about everything under the moon…when the shallow rod…2 to 3 feet of water gets a good strike.
Sean sets the 10/0 Gamakatsu hook like a true walleye guy…and he says “‘spose I should take the real out of free spool when I do that?” Differant fishing and equipment throws a person off “the routine” that their use to. Didn’t matter…since the fish was hooked. 
Sean says “not much of a catfish”…and I just snicker as we land a 25 inch walleye…”nope, not much of a catfish at all 
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We got a measurement, photo and a good release and settled back down with the hopes of a big guy coming in to sniff out a bullhead.
I was watching my rod acting funny…as in kinda bowing down, the slowly bending back up. Looked like a weed or maybe a peice of wood on the hook. Figured I best check the bait.
Well, that weed/wood turned out to be the last fish of the night, a 27 inch 7 lbs some ounce walleye.
We did have one cat run…which ran right into the wood and that was that.
Sorry I didn’t get you into any fighter last night Sean, I’ll have to make it up to you on the lower streaches of the back channel sometime! 
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