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[hanson]

Got you text message but I can't text message up here.

Yep. Up Nort still... Thats a big 'no go' for me tonight.

[Wiskers]

Hey there Chris, sorry for not sticking around to chat and visit but it was a hellish day on the water for us. I was not in any mood for other than a nap before going back to work at 5:30.

How did you guys do? We had some real nice fish on but the fish gods were just not with us today. We just could not get a hook set if our lives depended on it. Anchor trouble, snags, and on top of it all I lost my $200. rod & reel combo into the Red the last hour of the day. sigh sigh.. that pretty much did me in.... Two and a half days with out sleep are getting to me. Was nice to see ya though.

I do have a real cool tale for ya though.. I soooooooo wish we had the video camera out today and running when I got a big hit and it took me into a shag.......Gee another one????

I started to pull on it trying to dislodge it with out breaking off. I am running Berkley Braid on that reel. I could feel it was solid so I pulled just a bit harder and held it. Then I could feel it starging to pull loose. It all of a sudden came free and started to race to the surface. I yelled to Bruce to look at the line racing to the surface, was very odd and heavy. All of a sudden a Giant log, 20 feet long with a Y at the end and a good foot and a half across, came bursting from the deep. It came up with such force that it looked like a submarine when they shoot out of the water and splash down... was the most amaizing snag I have ever seen.. With the lack of current I was able to pull it to the boat and get my rigging back and released the creature back to the water where it floated down river until I pushed it onto the shore so no one would hit it. I tell ya what, that was such a wild site, How I was able to dislodge that log from the bottom and on top of it all it came up like a balloon. You should have been there to see it ... Just crazy.

[hanson]

We finished 6th or 7th, somewhere in that area anyway.

15.2lb, 14.4lb, & the slot was 4.4lb So that put us about 4lbs out of 1st.

The Montana boys with the RiverPro got 4th I think. It was pretty cool hanging out and chatting with them.

All in all, it was a fun day on the water. We caught so many "slot" fish it wasn't even funny. Just trying to decide when to keep one for the limit became tough.

Shannon's motor was giving us some problems on the way in. It kept losing power like it was getting starved for fuel. But we made it!

[DTro]

No worries, Hanson. I thought with all your recent posts, you came home early or something.

Probably just as well, it's been pretty slow, I took the night off, and cleaned all the mayflies out of my boat from Fri.

That snag story is funny........we had a somewhat similar story of Fri. We were set up right in front of a big snag in probaby the fastest moving current in a few miles. In fact I was surprised the anchor held at all, anyways, my partner Jim, gets a nice run and puts a major league set on it. Well the force of that set broke the anchor free, so now he's fighting a fish and the boat is racing for the snag. Right before we banged the snag the anchor recaught, but now the back anchor was free and in his way, so I'm trying to get it out of the way. I do that and quick grab the net and the fish came up to the surface. He was up in front of the boat and brought it towards the front, I had the net in back, in line with it.......the hook pops out, "oh no!", and I watch the fish slide into the net, but he didn't see that. He plops down on the seat and has "that" look on his face. Right then I lift the net and he just beams.

At that point it was the biggest fish of the night.

[Big Cat Dad]

Hanson, I also enjoyed visiting with you and Catman.. It's always fun to meet people face to face when you've done nothing but read and reply to posts on a computer. I had an awesome time at the tournament and can't wait until Cats Incredible....that should be a blast. When the date gets closer we should communicate about maybe prefishing or just get together and B.S.