A real fish Story

Here's a Real Fish Story and It's All True!
Probably a world's record for fighting a fresh water fish on light tackle, 13 ¾ hours, was set Sunday at Silver Lake, 12 miles south of Warsaw.This battle of man against fish started at 9:15 a.m. when Harry Han, 44 of Wabash, tied into a "big one" at the north end of Silver Lake.The hassle ended in front of hundreds of spectators at 11 o'clock Sunday night. The fish won. It wore out two nylon fishing lines and four pairs of fishermen in the 13 ¾ hour duel.The fight captured the imagination of thousands of radio listeners across northern Indiana, who kept WRSW switchboards jammed through the day and into the night. Many hundreds of them drove to Silver lake and watched the struggle. Members of the Lake Conservation club, the Grant county emergency squad, the Silver Lake fire department and the Indiana conservation department, all got into the act in the effort to land the fish.To fishermen the battle became all the more exciting when word got to shore that Han was using only three-pound line, requiring a high degree of skill to keep from breaking. He fought the fish and was accompanied by Art Devers, Silver Lake resort owner, until one o'clock in the afternoon. Han was then called home to Wabash by the illness of one of his children.Sympathetic lake residents selected the best they had, Jim Flynn, president of their conservation club, to relieve Han. Flynn and Devers battled the fish for three hours when Flynn was relieved for a time by Earl Denny of Wabash, with skating rink operator George Musser at the oars.34 Boats AroundFlynn returned to the scene at the seven-hour point in the battle and he and Denny continued the fight. At one point there were 34 boats surrounding them, containing nearly 100 persons. Hundreds of others lined the shore.The captive fish took them up and down Silver Lake numerous times. When the battle had lasted eight hours, Flynn announced that the line was wearing out. Shortly thereafter it broke. But Flynn, alert, grabbed the end of the line as it passed the tip of the pole. He played the fish by hand while another spinning rod and line was brought from shore. Flynn and Denny, in a skillful piece of fishing art, tied the new line onto the broken end of the line holding the fish and the battle continued.Between the eighth and tenth hour of the fight Flynn and Denny literally herded the fish to the west side of the lake near the cottage of Don Bouse, county commissioner, in an effort to force it to the beach. The fish defeated this move and would not enter shallow water.Conservation Officer Bill Davis, who had followed the fight from 12 noon, called for assistance. A number of other conservation officers, intrigued by the battle, arrived at the scene.At dark Han came back to the lake and took over the rod for the balance of the fight. The Silver Lake fire department brought an emergency generator and flood lights to illuminate the scene and the balance of the battle was waged up and down the water front near the Bouse and Metzger cottages.Eludes NetThe Indiana conservation department sent a large net from Lake Wawasee. Several efforts were made to surround the fish with this net but the cagey old battler swam under it every time. At 11 p.m. Han once again had worked the fish to within a few feet of shore when the old section of the three-pound line that had held the fish for 13 and ¾ hours broke. The battle was over.The fish had never surfaced and no one got a look at him.Fishermen who observed the fight and the men who had held the rod believe it was a large catfish. It had too much shake and life to be a turtle. I did not break water and fight quite like a dog fish, but in it's powerful "runs" and actions in deep water resembled the characteristics of a big cat fish.Han is having quite a season of fishing. About three weeks ago he hooked a large bass and in placing him in the landing net upset the boat. He lost his tackle and his billfold, but when he came to the surface, he still had the bass in the landing net. He was not that fortunate Sunday.Whatever it was that got on Han's line Sunday morning was big and made the lake area one of its best fishing stories of recent years.Warsaw Times-Union Monday August 20, 1956 Front page

A little fishing humor

A lady goes into a sporting goods store to buy a fishing rod to give to her husband for his birthday. A salesman wearing dark glasses with a dog is behind the counter and asks, "Can I help you ma'am?"
"Well, I'd like to buy a fishing rod, can you tell me about this one?" she replies.
The salesman replies, "I'm sorry ma'am but I am blind and cannot see the rod you're referring to. However, if you'll drop it on the counter, I'll tell you all about it as I can tell rods by the sound they make."
So the lady picks up the rod and drops it on the counter.
"That's a Zebco 2500, fiberglass, 6'2" long, medium action - costs $55.95," he says.
The lady is amazed. She asks if she can try again. Finding another rod, she drops it on the counter.
"That's an Orion 35C, graphite, saltwater casting rod, 7' even - costs $135.00," he responds.
Impressed, the lady decides to buy the second rod. As the blind clerk is ringing up the sale, the lady walks a short distance away to look at fishing reels. As she returns to the counter, she cannot help herself, and makes a distintive sound as she passes gas. Embarrassed, but figuring the clerk will have no idea who did it, she elects not to apologize.
Finished with the sales tally, the clerk says, "That will be $170.00"
"What?" says the lady. "You said the rod was only $135.00."
"That's right ma'am," says the clerk. "$135.00 for the rod, $30.00 for the duck call, and $5.00 for the bait."

Bait

Bait what do I know about bait? Well nothing but I know people that do. When I started this post I thought ok guys have to know about fishing so I am going to see what they say about bait and how long you use the same bait and what color or small or large I read some articles and I still don't know but I will tell you what this guy said. My Dusty would not ever tell guys what he was using when he was catching all the fish but I guess these guys don't care because they caught some big fish on this web site.
Bait to use -Confidence is extremely important. It doesn't matter how much you read or watch on TV, until you actually catch a fish on a lure you won't have confidence in it. Our tendencies are to throw the baits that we have the most confidence in - and there is nothing wrong with that. However, might I suggest that when your confidence baits are working their best, that is when you should try other baits and locations. Don't wait until you can't catch anything on your go-to baits in you favorite honey holes before trying new lures and spots. Honey holes, confidence and spots hope this helps it did not help me. lolo

Beach Life

Guest post written by my buddy Bernardo Graham
Living at the beach is my favorite thing in the whole world but there are a lot of challenges I never anticipated before I moved here. For example, I knew my place was in a hurricane zone but I had no idea how far away hurricanes can be and still cause a lot of damage to the property. I had to install storm windows and some extra shuttering just to make sure the place is locked up tight. I also near about fell out the first month I got my electricity bill so I had to go to HTTP://WWW.shopELECTRICITYRATESTEXAS.com to get it down to a level I could afford. There’s a lot more maintenance required since being so close to the ocean means the house and deck get worn away by salt water a lot easier but I guess it’s all worth it in the end when I get to go to sleep each night hearing the waves in the background. I wouldn’t trade my beach life for anything in the world!

What? Gone Fishing

Sound like a weird blog for a woman but I can say I probably know as much about fishing as my son. See when Dusty was 14 I bought him his first boat that is all he ever wanted to do was fish. We lived on the lake and the marine was next door to us. The first time he entered a fishing tournament on Wednesday night he was the youngest one there. All these other guys had their 10 thousand dollar boats and here he was in his 2 thousand dollar boat. But the look on his face was worth everything to me. He had no father fiqure in his life so I was pretty much it.
He keep going and I would go and watch him weigh in. After a couple weeks he started win the biggest fish and then the most pounds. He was making himself a little money and was happy as he could be. The older guys got use to him being there they watched him grow up in that little fishing boat. Finally some of the guys were like Dusty show me where you are fishing show me what you are using. I was so proud of him. There was only one problem I had no idea he was sneaking out of the house late at night when I was asleep and finding the best places to fish. He knew that river like the back of his hand. He could ride by the light of the moon. When I found out my heart sank what if something had happened to him I would have never known it. For Christmas the first year he was fishing I bought him a tackle box and everything you can think off to go in it. Happy was he and it made my heart swell up to see him fish I was so proud. Then he grew up tall and handsome and I watched him still fish he ate, sleep, and drank fishing. From then until now his favorite phrase is I'm gone fishing and that is his happy times. I watched from a little boy and now he is 6"4" and he is still my little boy. So I will give you secrets on this blog and ways to catch that one fish that will put you over the top. That is if I can find him on the river to tell me. Thanks for stopping by and reading this we are gone fishing.