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Today was Richard’s work picnic at Stockton Lake. Bob, one of Richard’s co-workers, has a nice fishing boat and invites any of the group willing to meet up at 8 am to come along for a little fishing before the eating commences! This year Richard, Garland and I went along. About my first cast out I thought I had snagged on something, but then it moved and I yelled "it moved," which, of course, made the guys laugh! He was a fighter, and the guys were all yelling out what they thought I had on, "8 pound walleye" etc. He went around the boat, and I followed, reeling in and fighting him. Garland got ready with the net, and we finally saw that he was a nice little catfish! We got him into the net, and then Bob grabbed him up for me (if you don’t get a hold of a catfish carefully, they will really hurt you!) and Richard got the camera for the photo! What fun! Richard hadn’t brought appropriate catfish cleaning gear, but we managed to do it with the cheese knife and leatherman pliers! We’ll have him for dinner tomorrow night! |
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Next, Richard caught this nice little Crappie. As he brought it in, Bob said, "it’s just 9.5 inches, not big enough to keep." Dick said, "he’s 10 inches, you can keep him." Well, when it came down to the actual measuring, Bob was right, and he wasn’t long enough to keep! We got a photo though! |
