Disappointed bass fisherman :-)

Last evening, I was out scouting dove fields for our upcoming opening day.
I was walking along the headwaters of a lake I fish quite often (and hunt
waterfowl). I was very surprised to see a bass boat here as I knew that
getting this far upstream would be very difficult because it is so shallow
in many places between the main lake and this section of the feeder creek
that was not more than 20 feet across.

As I was looking on, the one guy had a major fight going on with a fish. He
ended up landing a 28" muskie. He seemed really ticked off so I asked him
about it. This lake does have some muskie, but catching one is rare and it
is a highly prized catch by locals. Turns out that he was fishing in a bass
tournament and was hoping that fish was a bass. I just had to laugh. Any
of us locals would have been overjoyed to land that fish in these waters and
the state would have provided a certificate to go along with it.

I have a new area to fish now and will definitely do some targeting of
muskies. :-)

Jeff