Mouse Bass

My Monday secret pond owner is out for the season with a broken leg.  However, my brother has access to a different secret pond, and has been nice enough to let me join him occasionally.

Yesterday, the fishing was a little slow compared with some other days.  (We were only catching about 25 bass instead of the usual 50.)  So Jerry thought he would try using a different lure.  He dug in his tackle box, and came out with a plastic mouse.  My brother has always been a joker, so I laughed when he tied the mouse on his line, and casted it in the weeds near the shoreline.  Obviously, he got the last laugh.  You can see the mouse in the fishes mouth.  Not sure if this a testament to how smart my brother is, or how dumb the fish is.

 

As I mentioned, the quantity of our catch was a little lower yesterday, but the quality was pretty good.

 According to my brother's un-certified scale, that was a 4.3 lb bass

More Kayak Camping

I've been back camping again in the Deam Wilderness area near Lake Monroe.
Rich and I loaded our camping gear in the kayaks, and made our way across the lake to the shore of the wilderness area.  We had stayed in the same spot a couple of times, so we thought this trip we should explore the shoreline for some different options.

The first place we stopped had what appeared to be some voodoo faces painted on rocks.  That was a bit disturbing, but when I found some "devil nets" hanging from the trees (like those on True Detectives), I thought we should depart the area in a timely fashion.

We went on down the shoreline a safe distance, and got out to explore again.  This time we found a campsite that could only be describe as "Yabba Dabba Doo."  A couch, a chair, end tables and a coffee table around the fire pit.

 

Looks like Fred and Wilma left their beach chairs down by the lake.

 

Not wanting to be disturbed by Dino in the middle of the night, we found a more suitable site, and set up our camp.  Rich works from home.....or anywhere.  No one really knows where that email originated.