After reading all of yesterday's accounts of slow fishing, I decided to hit the Braden River this morning for some freshwater action.
It's not the same as the headshaking fight of a big redfish, but there's something thereputic in rolling a little popper under an overhanging oak limb and waiting on the !POP! that you know is bound to come.
I didn't get the big numbers, but the bluegills & shellcrackers I did get were biguns.
Also got a couple of bass in the 2 - 3 lb range.
Some of the locals stopped to watch, maybe hoping for a handout.
The water is extremely low, so I wrapped up the day by using my truck to pull a truck, trailer, and jetski up the ramp. The guy had backed off the end of the ramp, then slammed it so hard trying to get out that he blew a trailer tire. (hopefully that'll keep him off the water for a while)
Now that's a bluegill
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