A Summer of Fishing

It's been a good summer of fishing so far. Started off in June with a nice big brown near camp in Potter County. That fish his a size 8 beadhead woolly bugger and fought hard. Measured 20".

The week after catching that brown, I caught another wild brown about 18". It was a heck of a fish too. 

And then, last month, Greg Harold and I took his son Tyler and Rachel's son Ian to Lake Arthur for some catfishing. Landed around 10 cats, and I got a small striper, but the prize was Greg's 22" largemouth bass on a jointed floating Rapala. We'd heard the bass feeding off shore and I dipped into my bag of tricks and gave Greg the Rapala. A half dozen casts later, the fish smacked the lure only five feet from the shore in about a foot of water. The boys were awfully excited...and so were we!

And then of course there was the huge freshwater drum I caught last week. I haven't been fishing nearly as much this summer as if have liked to, but every time I do hit the water, it seems like I run into some nice fish. Makes me wish I'd have fished more!