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Wow, looks like you caught the biggest one of the day!  Thank goodness the kid was ok.  Too bad on the fishing.  Some days are like that,

There we no fish by the docks this time......

It's always a blast fishing with Ernie! Although I wouldn't have complained if we had caught more fish 1 LMB, 2 white perch, 2 yellow perch. That was the total tally after ~6.5 hours of fishing. That's fishing. Nearly every spot we went to Ernie would tell stories of so-and-so catching fish here and there and all this jazz. Kept me entertained and hopeful, at least. He really has a 6th sense those as soon as we got to the creek he knew something was off. Tons of bait fish, and only that one bass to show. No signs of bass/snakie otherwise. Although we did see baitfish being corraled and jumping out of the water several times, but everything we threw in that direction came up empty. It was still cool to see since I haven't seen that before.

Catching that chunk was pretty awesome. Ernie did a great job netting the fish. I casted into a cut in the shore and a few seconds later, WHAM! It thrashed around a bit at first, and Ernie thought it was a snakehead. At that point I got anxious because that would have been my first. After we got it closer to the boat we saw it was a bass, but a good one! Got it in the boat, took pictures, and let it go. As we passed the spot where I caught the fish, we saw it was the perfect spot for bass. Right as the cut entered the creek it was pretty deep with a complex root system down there, good hiding spot for a bass.

After spending the majority of the day in the creek Ernie told me about the docks (of course where many people have caught fish) and asked if I wanted to go there or call it. Of course I wanted to go. Good thing too because it was on the way that we saw and rescued that kid. That was worth it, even thoguh we didn't catch anything at the docks.

All in all, a good way to start your Saturday