Went For A Swim Over the Weekend

Dave and I were fishing Yuma Bassmasters Sunday out on the river. We had two
fish in the well and we were getting bit when I nailed a short fish that
wrapped me up. Dave managed to grab the fish and then while I was trying to
work the snag loose he pushed me. Splash!!! Then feeling guilty about it he
walked right in behind me. BIGGER SPLASH!!! My first thought was, "Shoot!
There goes my cell phone."

Of course we were in the current and the boat was drifting away. I looked to
see where Dave was and when I saw he had a hand on the boat I proceeded to
try and get my rod out of the brush.

Never did get the line untangled and the boat was getting further away so I
hit the thumb button and started releasing line. When I caught the boat most
of my braided over wrap line was gone. Finally had a smart thought, whipped
out my knife and cut the line. Then I tossed the rod up on deck as we were
dangling off the back. Bounce! Bounce! Splash! It skittered across the deck
and went right off the other side of the boat.

Dave pulled himself up by stepping on the cavitation plate and as I was
getting myself in position to do the same I saw him reach over the side and
grab my rod. Hey! Bonus! We saved the rod afterall.

We did ok for the day considering we tried to fish soaking wet in the wind
for the next two hours. Finally I got too cold to take it and insisted we
head in to have a cup of coffee and spend 20 minutes at Fisher drinking
coffee. Dave took the cold stiocally like the determined pro that he is and
kept fishing inspite of the cold and wind and shivering. I had to push hiim
(not that way) pretty hard to get him to head in and take a break from
fishing to warm up.

We did not finish in the top of the pack, but we did ok. Dave finished up
the day with two keepers back to back in the last hour to fill out our
limit. His big fish was a really solid 3.9. When we netted it I guessed it
at 3.5 to 4.

With a 9.41 total weight. We didn't rock anybody's world, but considering
the adversity of the day I have to say we did pretty good.


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Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
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