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The Monkey is Gone!!

hanson

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Finally... SUCCESS!!!

Check back to my previous thread Pulling My Hair Out and you'll see I've been having a few struggles with this cattin' thing.

Last night, the stars aligned. NO, they were shooting! Shooting all over the place. Awesome sky last night!

I teamed up with a friend, Briank, that I've had the pleasure of fishing with a few times on Pool 2 of the Mississippi River. He was witness to my misfortunes earlier in the year.

Well, our schedules worked out last night and he invited me out on the Mississippi with him and we proceeded to have a decent night of cattin'.

Within 5 minutes of getting positioned on our second spot, the clicker on the Garcia 7000 goes off while I'm cracking a Mt. Dew. "What are ya waiting for?" he yells. I pick up the rod, feel the fish, and he is on for about 5 seconds and I lose him. "Oh, oh," I'm thinking, "Here we go again."

Well, after waiting that spot out for awhile, we move upstream and position on a new spot. After a shortwhile, that telltale clicker starts going off again on my rod. I slip the rod out of the holder and set into it, this time getting the fish to the boat.

This little flattie weighed in at 10 pounds. The monkey is gone!! Success!

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After a short while, we move again. Its now getting into the wee hours of the morning and I'm thinking, "How am I going to get up to go to work in the morning?" I rigged up a bullie on my rod and cast out. I don't even think I had a chance to sit down yet and the clicker started screaming out again. I connected solidly with this fish also but he was just a baby, perhaps 4 pounds tops.

5 minutes after the little flattie came into the boat, the clicker on my Okuma starts going off. "What's going on?" I'm thinking to myself. I delicately slipped the rod out of the holder, reeled up on the fish and set the hook home. I didn't take me long to realize this fish had a little more size than the others. A short little tug-o-war and we successfully had the big kittie in the boat.

This one went 26 pounds and is my biggest flat to date!

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Here's a release shot!

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Overall, very successful and enjoyable night on the river!

dtro will be glad to know I'm not bringing the monkey with tonight to Cat League. I can't wait! grin.gif

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Which pool where you on? We were out on 3 Friday as well till about 1:00 am. We lost 3 fish?? One my friend fought for about 5 minutes without budging off the bottom before it just came unhooked? We should have moved spots but this spot has given up a few 40# so far so we remained confident. Oh well. It was an awesome night to be out and I will probably be out Friday again or maybe some night this week.

It sucks though that the baitshop in Hastings is closing. Now I won't have anywhere to buy bait within a 20 minute drive. frown.gif

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