fishing!

Terry (my boyfriend) and I went and ran a trot line today. Well he calls it his leg line. A trot line that catches fish bigger than your leg. Well if you picked my leg that wouldn't be hard to do but most anyone's leg. Saturday he caught a flathead (a kind of catfish) that weighed 23 pounds. A BIG FISH! Good eating though :)

In order to run (bait) the leg line you have to of course have fish to put on it. Oh by the way ... it's a TROT line not a trout line. Who knew I was saying it wrong all those years. If I had to I could run it but nah. I'll let him do that.

We went up to the creek and got some bait. The creek isn't too far from here. Less than a mile I'd say but they have the prettiest fish in it. Creek perch is what they are called. He also caught some polys. Apparently that's a little yellow and black catfish type.

He's been fishing Reelfoot Lake for YEARS. Well ever since he was a kid. Even made a living at it when his kids were growing up. We still go about every day when we get the chance. He's teaching me to bass fish. I've only been a few times and caught one bass but it was with a friend of his wife. She wanted to go and knew I liked to go and said hey you and I should go sometime so a few days later I went with her. Worked out great. We get along great and she makes a great fishing partner.

We also fish for bluegill. Terry spends most of his time laughing at me. Just cause I can't get the fish to the boat as effectively as he does. Course he doesn't stop to think I've been doing this a couple years and he's been doing it all the time since he was a kid.

I'll see if I can post some pictures to the site later so you can see the pictures of the lake and some of the fish we've caught. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures of the 23 pound flathead catfish. I'll take some when we run the line tomorrow.