Bloodied And Bruised I Fish On
Decide to go out for a couple of casts at my local lake.Hit a spot that I've just fished a couple of times.Start out throwing a shallow diving crank and nail a nice pick.Hooked it through upper and lower jaw so tricky unhook well as luck would have it the feisty devil shakes hook into one finger grr guess I need my pliers try again shakes hooks into finger on other hand then slices my finger on teeth now I'm a bloody mess finally unhook her and set her free thankfully she is unharmed unlike me!Note to self bring band aids from now on.Hit a few other spots couple bites but nothing sticks.Something in my gut tells me to take the 5 minute ride to my honey hole. Hadn't fished it in awhile cause early in year may have been to cold and it was slow.Decide to switch back to my go to senko cause thats usually what they wan't there.First cast bingo 3lb larry. Caught a 4 and what had to be close to a 5 they where so fat their anuses where oozing with what could no longer fit in their stomachs in all caught almost a 20lb bag limit!Nice to see my honey hole back seems kind of late for spawn but maybe that's what they were doing.Either that or they have recovered from spawn and the blitz is on!
I guess you were lucky that the hooks didn't go in past the barbs. My ER nurse wife see's them in the all the time with lures hanging from appendages. I was bloodied myself last weekend. Between getting harpooned by Larry's spines, my thumbs cut from lipping many Larry's for nine hours and finally hooking myself multiple times my hands were a mess and sore.
I've had a tough week got sliced by braid battling a pike earlier this wk but the fish have rewarded me nicely have had a great week of fishing.Like they say no pain no gain!