Hit the river for a few hours tonight. Went targeting catfish but had an hour or two to kill before the sun went down so I started tossin the usuals. After a half hour or so I caught a decent white perch. Then I hooked into a nice beast of a pike!! Took a couple runs that had the drag rippin!!!
After a quick cpr I decided to catch a sunny or two and get the catfishin underway. With a live sunny on one rod and chic livers on the other it was a parade of 3/4# bullheads for the next 30min till I saw the other rod start giving line. Grab it, set the hook , and bring in a sunny almost bit in half! Couldn't hook up, Damn........
Little while later, with a sunny strip on the hook, I saw my pole bend in half and hook into what must have been a solid channel. He was pulling line and thrashing like beast!! After about 8-10 minutes I thought he was done so I tightened up the drag to try to land him and he takes off, SNAP!!! Oh well, ill get him next time........
Off the water by 10:30.
