Fishing Adventure

I finally had the chance to go fishing with my Aunt and Uncle this week. They would always tell me tales about the monster catfish that would straighten their fishing hook and escape back into the murky depths of the pond. Finally after hearing many of these amazing stories of the fish that got away, I was invited to go with them on a cloudy day this week.

When we arrived at the pond it wasn't what I was expecting. The pond was in the front yard of the owners house at looked more like a decorative pond then a fishing pond. It even had little figurines in various places around the pond and small benches. I thought to myself, "OK, Where is the fishing pond?" All thoughts aside after setting up all our chairs and fishing poles I put a artificial minnow on my line and cast it into the murky brown water. I started to real it in and as soon as it came to the edge of the pond SNAP! A fish had mistaken my minnow for a easy meal. I reeled the fish in and it was a nice sized bream. It didn't take long to catch a couple of bream but I was ready for the monster catfish.

The bait of choice was chicken livers. I had never used chicken livers as bait before and it was a little disgusting. However I was told that is what the catfish like. So I put a stinky piece of liver on my hook and cast it into the pond. I waited and waited and was giving up hope when all of a sudden my bober sinks down into the water and I could tell that this was no bream it was a catfish. I reeled in my line with ease and pulled a small catfish up to the surface and onto land. It might of only weighed 4 or 5 pounds but I was glad to have caught the first catfish of the day.

The pond has an automatic feeder that sends feed soaring into the pond at 6 o'clock every day. I was told when that happens you can almost put a hook right into a catfish's mouth. So I stuck around till 6. I was using one of my lures when I heard the motor in the feeder start and a minute later you could see fish splashing the surface of the pond for their meal. I could see huge catfish come to the surface and open their mouth like a vacuum and engulf a handful of feed. Now was my time I tossed my line into the water right on top of a catfish. A second later I had him and was reeling it in but I was struggling. The catfish must have been huge because it took my hook right of my line. My Aunt quickly handed me her fishing pole because I didn't have my hooks with me to fix my line (It had started raining earlier and we packed up everything but the poles and some bait). I saw another catfish and cast the line toward it. I didn't think I would catch another one when out of the blue the bober sunk again and from the stress on the line this had to be the monster. I reeled it in to the edge of the pond and laid my eyes upon a true monster catfish. The catfish had a head around 5 to 6 inches wide,was about 2 in a half to 3 feet long, and weighed at lest 10 pounds if not 12. I had him he was mine.

All in all I caught 5 catfish and 3 bream. My Aunt and Uncle and cousin caught all together 3 catfish and 13 bream. My mother and I are going to have a nice meal tonight. I will never forget this fishing trip and I cant wait to go back to catch the one that got away.