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You know when you see a "show quality" pure breed dog? Like a pure Siberian Husky... or a pure and perfect spaniel... Just the absolute personification and almost a caricature of the breed....... that very rare animal that is a perfect snapshot of what people visualize when they think of that breed or "species" if you will.
Such was the catch of the day yesterday.
We tried the honeyhole by the dam, but it was unbelievably high and muddy still... The rains we've had have been constant and heavy.
No luck.
We tried a small river (normally home to some fantastic fishing) and no luck there as either... water too high, muddy.
Then we tried a place completely new to us. It's not part of a river system, and is fed solely with runoff and has a well-constructed outlet partition so that it never gets over-full. We tried several things, but couldn't catch anything. 93 degrees with 80% humidity... the fish probably felt like WE did... having no moving water: hot, sluggish, tired, irritable.
Skunked there for two hours before this beautiful specimen hit the crawler.
I've caught many shellcrackers before, but none more typified the perfect representation of the species as this one. It was really a beautiful fish, 8 3/4 inches and THIIIIIICK.
Thought I'd share it, since crackers are less plentiful out west.
Next week, we will find us a catfish population somewhere nearby. That's the next target.
Such was the catch of the day yesterday.
We tried the honeyhole by the dam, but it was unbelievably high and muddy still... The rains we've had have been constant and heavy.
No luck.
We tried a small river (normally home to some fantastic fishing) and no luck there as either... water too high, muddy.

Then we tried a place completely new to us. It's not part of a river system, and is fed solely with runoff and has a well-constructed outlet partition so that it never gets over-full. We tried several things, but couldn't catch anything. 93 degrees with 80% humidity... the fish probably felt like WE did... having no moving water: hot, sluggish, tired, irritable.
Skunked there for two hours before this beautiful specimen hit the crawler.

I've caught many shellcrackers before, but none more typified the perfect representation of the species as this one. It was really a beautiful fish, 8 3/4 inches and THIIIIIICK.
Thought I'd share it, since crackers are less plentiful out west.
Next week, we will find us a catfish population somewhere nearby. That's the next target.