Holland 5-25pm

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Holland 5-25pm

Took my oldest out today, to get s brown for a year long derby we are in, before they dry up.  

Was not expecting heavy chop.  I mean like we probably should not be out in 51 degree water in a 14'.  And the wind never let up.

Set up trolling with them and hit a 14" king setting lines, j11 silver rap off a bird.  Missed a hit on a Jerry Lee mini streak one color, then took another punk king that smoked a f11 blue rap.  Then a 4# laker on a mixed veggie mini streak on the other one color.  All these fish went back.

We had to stay out in 15-20' as the waves were breaking on the second sand bar.  Being shoved sideways isn't fun.

At this point she laid down on the floor to take a nap and I slugged into them.  Boat control was a nightmare so I wasn't expecting much.  Certainly wasn't expecting the blue rap bird rod to start screaming.  Kicked Andrea awake and she got the rod and I crazy Ivan'ed the boat to get the poor man's auto pilot working (waves on stern) so I could clear lines as this fish was going where ever.  Lines cleared I dropped it out of gear to slow it down, and we were still rolling 1.2mph just drifting.

As usual Goof did just fine and I netted an 11#+ steel.  Not the brown we were looking for but I'll take it.  We quit since half the lines were in and it was now a cauldron for the row boat, and went and stopped for ice cream, as that's our thing.  Just days ago it seemed she was too small to see out of the boat; next fall she starts high school.

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Nothing better than fishing with your kids. That's on my list for this weekend.

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