Finally Landed a Nice Fish this Year...

After many, many days and hunderds of hours of trying this year, I finally caught a really nice fish this weekend.



This is one of the guys I went fishing holding my fish in front of the dorsal fin and tail. I think it was around 7' long which would be in the 175# range. I wanted to get a picture with it, since I rarely have other folks around when I am fishing, but he unhooked it and let it go before I could stop him. I was holding the rod with both hands and cannot talk with my hands full...

This was caught at DaHole - my favorite spot to fish - and where I haven't had much luck for a few weeks. My friends had never been there and wanted to check it out after we first went down to the new place close to the house, Scotts Access, and it was 'full' of folks.

Last month, when my brother Don was here, we went fishing down there and I am thinking this fish, or one like it, is what Don had hooked up with as it fought about as hard and the one Don was fighting and ended up loosing to a broken line.

So, I am happy again. You can only have soo much fun fishing and not catching any big fish...

I played in the Tuesday night 9-ball tournament and had to be home early. So, I was playing this kid that has luckily beaten me a couple of times and was beating him 3-0 on a race to 4 games. In the fourth game, I ran the table down to the 9 ball and picked up the cue ball, handed it too him and said I quit... He was stunned and real happy. I saw him again on Thursday and he ended up winning 2nd - his first money win.

Then, last Thursday, we started playing our summer 9-ball league. Our team didn't do that well, considering. We all won 4 games out of our 6 games for a total of 12 games for the night. I should have won another one, but missed an easy shot, by not taking the time to focus on it, and lost the last one by my lucky opponent getting a 9 ball break... Well, I will do better next week.

They are starting the free evening concerts down town on Wednesdays again. Those are always fun to check out.

Well, that is about all that has been hoppening around here in DaHo...