A Long Weekend

  I burned a vacation day Friday and it sure did feel like I was getting away with something as I was paddling my way down stream Friday afternoon. The weather was just about perfect in the low 80's a mostly sunny, No complaints at all! The water levels have dropped quite a bit and it's starting to clear in the backs of the creeks and with that the bite is also picking up.

This little dude didn't even know I was there.

 I caught five or six dink's Friday afternoon which was cool but the real fun started Saturday night after the lights went out. I got on the water about 6:00 and started catching fish right next to the launch. None of them were that big but I caught some where around 20 fish with the best one being roughly four pounds with several in the two pound class.

One of the nicer 2#ers.

The best fish of the night/weekend.

 It's really tough to beat an evening of fishing ninja style, cruising though the water after dark not really being able to see all that well and nobody else being able to see you. Once the night fishing bug bites there is nothing in the world as cool as being on the water and the chirp of the tree frogs so loud that you can't hear yourself think. Other times looking around and seeing the eyes of the gators glowing in the beam of your headlamp. Not to mention getting on a top water bite tracking your lure as much by sound as by site having a monster fish explode on it feeling your line tighten as the fish tries to run off with your bait. Fishing at night is one of my most favorite things to do and I'm grateful I get the opportunities to do it.
Tight Lines
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