Well, yesterday was tueday, and Mark and I were out. We got on the water about 3:00 or so and stayed till about 11:00. We had a blast! It's only the second time we've been out this year, the Billy Davis Memorial being the first. So we've been looking forward to it for a while. We had a hard time hitting anything at first (I didn't improve much durring the evenng tho.), but eventually we started hitting ok. Mark went on one stretch hitting everything he saw. It was cool to watch. My handle fell off my new Synergy reel, and in the time it took me to swap reels, Mark hit 5 in a row.

The water was a little low, but we didn't get stuck too much. There's one area where the Dupage River feeds into the DesPlaines that the fish congragate and we went for a long while shooting as fast as we could reel em in! And I do mean fast and furious. I was sweating freely before we were through there. We'd go round and round in one 2-3 acre area and just see tons of fish. The Dupage River is very clear during low-water, and the current is just right for the gar. It was very cool the see gar swimming along side you in 4 feet of water clear as gin under the lights. Mark saw one he said was a 5-footer easily. And we did see one carp we thought would push 20-pounds, but mostly the fish were about 5-6 pounds average.

I'm sorry I didn't post a reminder about tuesdays, but we weren't sure we were going to be able to go out with the weather that was forecasted. Next time, no matter what, I'll post a reminder that we'll be going. It's a great place to go and see lots of fish.

Here's the 2 pictures I got of the shoot. Hopefully, Mark will get pictures of the fish all laid out and definetly counted. The barrel is a 55-gallon drum. And the gar is the first of the day. We only saw 2 or 3 before this.


http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h188/bowman55/Markstuesday-nightgar.jpg?t=1178719935


http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h188/bowman55/full-barrel.jpg?t=1178718468