Taters + An Awesome malenistic sighting!!!

July 18th 2007
went fishing today. the bait of choice was... hair rigged potatoes!

i was out there for5 hours until i couldnt bear the heat anymore. it was a good day. caught many carp. but the highlight of the day was about an hour before i left. you'll read that soon.
i had just got down to the lake and got my rod rigged up when i started hearing alot of splasshing in the overhanging trees about 25 feet away. i casted out my line toward the center of the lake. and turned down the drag. then i went to go check it out. The noise was carp tailing carp (as i thought) i was able to get 1 ok picture.

shortly after the i took the pic my drag was shreading off the reel. i ran to it put my hand on the reel and set the hook. then tightend my drag. it wasnt a big carp but it was a carp none the less. i got her landed and took a pic.

then my cameras batteries started to die and i decided not to take anymore pictures. so if i get a big one the batteries arent dead. i continued fishing i caught a bunch more carp around that size. then i decided to move to a spot i just recently discovered. it is a big strip (only about 15 feet across) of land going out into the lake about 200 feet and then widening to make an island. (from a birds eye veiw it would kinda look like a thermometer) i got to the island and went near a big fallen log that extends about 15 feet out. where i usually see carp feeding. i casted out and before long i got a slow run. it turned out to be a really small carp <1 lb. i recasted then sat down on the log over the water. i wasited there for over 1/2 hour and was starting to doze off. but then i looked down and seen a HUGE melanistic carp!!! as black as could be. i froze and tried not to make a move. it came up to the log right by my feet and sucked on the log once then swam off. i was shaking so much i almost fell of the log. it was just so exciting being next to that beast. i hope someday i could hook up to her and do batttle. and hopefully land her.