I just got home from my all nighter on the river. The visability was great due to the big moon. We caught 7 NICE Channel cats average was 2 to 2.5 lbs. The biggest was my brothers at about 3.5 lbs, I had a close second with 3.0 lbs But I got first fish of the night honors with that 3 pounder. When the sun came up it seemed the cats stopped biting but the Buffalo and Carp were. I caught my Biggest lifetime fish at 18.5 lbs, It was a Buffalo. It turned out to be the biggest of the day. I hooked another bigger but he spit the hook out after a minute or so of play. My brother hooked a couple of carp or buffalo but failed to bring them in. We had a blast. We were Using Night crawlers That my Daughter and I caught right before we left home. My brother was using Sonny's Dip Bait on one pole and it was doing just as good as the crawlers. We caught an unknown number of Perch(fresh water Drum) but we did not keep them.
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Im on the left and my bro Sam is on the right.
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This bad girl was 18.5 lbs Caught on a medium action ugly stick and 20 lb line with 15 lb leader.
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I put that board in so the kitties would not slime my boat, They did not want to sit still for the pic lol.
On our way our "spot" about a 25 minute boat ride wide open, The motor started making a god awful noise all at once. I quickly brought things to a stop to inspect. When I pulled the boat out of gear the noise stopped, drop it in gear Forward or revers it would start again. We quickly determined that it was the lower end or the prop. We yanked the motor up to find that this little fin had come lose and was hitting the prop. A few quick turns of the wrench and we were back under way.
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My prop is messed up so I will be saving and looking for a new one
On the way home this morning the water was like glass and we had the throttle wide open heading to the boat launch, As the launch came into sight and as I was planing how to come in to the bank, the motor fell on its face. One second the we were cooking along and the next the motor was dead. First thought , out of gas, Nope. Luckily another boater was right there and asked if we needed help, they brought us into the bank Apperently that big buffalo had floped up on to the fuel line and piched it or something similar. once we moved the fish and pulled the hood to give it a look the we had no more trouble. As my brother was backing the trailer I cut a couple donuts in the middle if the river to to make sure. It ran like a champ. We did not catch a whole lot of keep able fish but we had a very good time.