New boating law

For those of you who like to drink a cold one while you're on the water, listen up! Starting tomorrow the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) for boat operators will be .08 instead of the .10 which it had been. With the new law, law enforcement will surely increase their patrols and checks. Be careful guys.

The R word

It started raining around 8 P.M last night and has been raining since. Wait, I haven't got to the good part yet! Here goes. The Skunk has come back up three feet, give or take an inch or two. I don't believe the river will ever get a chance to settle down. Does anybody know where a guy can find a good checker board? Seriously!

UPDATE: WE'RE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE, AGAIN!

Out of practice?

I spent two hours on the Skunk and got two bites but missed them both. I can't imagine that I'm out of practice. It's only been weeks since I caught a catfish. Then it clouded up and all I could think was that I should get off the river before it storms. I found it impossible to relax and fish. It's unfortunate that a guy can't relax and focus on catching fish because the weather is so consistently threatening. I really didn't expect that the fish would be biting but I had to give it a try. Nobody else was on the river but there were a few people on or around the dam. Nothing going on.

Rained out!!!!!!!!!!!

I went to bed last night with tentative plans to hit the Ol Miss with T.C. but I chickened out this morning since we had rain on the way. It's a good thing though because it rained all day. Its getting so my street doesn't even get dry before it starts raining again. I think I might trade my SeaArk in for a crappie boat, or better yet, maybe a checker board. What do you think?

Crappie, again?

Yea, I did it again. I tried to be a crappie fisherman again but I didn't do as well as yesterday. Five hours of fishing, two crappie. Maybe I should stick to chasing catfish, if the weather and river ever allow. There is no doubt I will stick to catfishig but I reserve the right to hit the crappie, bluegill or whatever other fish I can catch when I can't get to the catfish.

Roy, Crappie fishing?

The Skunk is still falling, seven feet in three days, but I figured the fishing would still be off so I wrote off the river. I'm almost ashamed to admit it but I spent the day on Lake Sugema crappie fishing. It was the first time I have fished for anything other than catfish in years. It did feel a little weird but it wasn't all bad. I managed to catch seven which isn't even half of what Chub caught. In addition to catching more fish than I did, Chub laughed at me all day because I didn't bring my rain suit. I was wet and cold all day. Yea, it rained on us. The wind was blowing so hard that I almost fell out of the boat several times.

Against my better judgement I decided to force the issue and soak some bait on the rapidly falling Skunk River. With a few green sunfish I caught from Pond X I headed down to the river. After trying the culvert on both sides of the road and along the fence by the dam I gave up. Nothing doing. The Skunk fell a little over three feet to just below flood stage, since midnight last night so I wasn't expecting a lot of success. I just wanted to give it a try. It had been so long since I fished that I almost got a bird nest on my Garcia 7000. I'm glad nobody was around.