Hot and windy day, before news weather forcast of some thunderstorm. It's the perfect weather for fishing before a storm. The fishes were biting like a storm too. I was catching a whole lot of fishes off of one ugly lure, Mepps Aglia Spinner #4 gold blade. Had a 16" Largemouth Bass began the action. Then a 24" Bowfin came out to play. This was one of the most beautiful looking bowfin I've ever seen, light silvery green scales. Well still had the mean bony looking head of a bowfin. Well this one didn't bark at me. Next another largemouth, but a smaller one at only 13" and jumped once. Then I snagged into a bigfish, probably a carp. Lots of them around, breaking the water surface here and there. The hook unbuckled, would've been nice to see it. A smallmouth bass jumped on the lure, and this one was a jumping one. It jumpt three or four times, but it was a rather small fish and measured out at 10 inches. After a while, I hooked into something big. It really swam around and stayed underwater. I thought it was a big dogfish, judging by the power and speed of the swim and it's ability to change direction frequently. After a while, I got the fish to surface and saw it was a big catfish. Well not that big, but it hit and ran like a freight train style. This guy measured out to be 22" in length. The final fish of this quick hour of fishing hit like a snagged lure on the bottom. It wouldn't move for a few seconds, then I felt a pulse and tug and it was a fish. After a while I was able to pull the fish and dragged hime out of the deep. Saw that it was another Smallmouth Bass. This one measure just a tad shy of 17 inches. That was one high powered hour of fishing.
