i am a master baiter

September 9, 2007

well the first annual WhereIFish.com muddy mississippi fishing tournament this weekend was a huge success!  i do have some bragging rights from here on out…a team of me and three friends took the journey on my dad’s fishing boat (me driving ahhhh!) on the big mississippi river to fish for channel catfish.  the tournament rules were that the catfish had to 1. be alive 2. be at least 14 inches.  i think we had a total of 6 fishing poles in the boat and i was using three of them.  we went out into the water around 7:20am saturday morning and fished until noon (pee break).  within that time, i mangaged to catch 4 catfish, and one that was good enough to be entered into the tournament.  nobody else had caught anything.  we go back into the marina (nearly getting stuck on a sandbar on the way back in) and grab a quick bite to eat.  word on the street is that i have caught the only usable fish so far in the tournament! go me!  we head back out into the river and find a spot nearby where we were earlier.  no later than 1 minute from the time i cast out my line i get another bite!  that makes 5 fish for me.  teammates 0.  i jokingly remarked to my friends that i was tired of catching fish and was going to give it up for the day when all of the sudden one of my other poles jerk down really quickly!  another one.  oh man now i feel like a jerk hahahah  we ended up getting 6 fish as a team (thanks to me!) but only one that could be entered.  lets just say i was in first place for about 10 minutes……until the rest of the teams came in and i was soon shut down!