Fishing with the Donks

The Donk clan came down and invited me to tag along on a hardhead quest. We started out at the 110 Bridge around 3pm with the plan to fish in the shade, but it was a bit crowded, so we ended up casting the net for a bit and getting an assortment of Bull Minnows and Pin Fish.

The we head over to Palace Bridge. There was a stiff breeze that made it a bit of a challenge, but we managed a mixed bag of monster pin fish, croakers, hardheads, gaftops, with a few ground mullet and one white trout mixed in. There might even have been a might even of been a Hardtop or Gaffhead caught.

Donk managed several crabs in this traps, but the biggest crab of the night he caught on Rod n Reel, but it was full of eggs and had to go back.

When we parted ways at 9:30 they were heading to broadwater, but my curfew was quickly approaching and had to head home.

I did managed to get a few entries into the Hardhead Classic.

A 16 1/4" Gafftop. There was some confusion amoungst the weighmasters if we were going to the long tail, or short tail. After looking at Salty's photos it looks like he went to the short tail. So I will do the same.



And I also added this 8 1/4" hardhead in the smallest hardhead category, and the purdiest competition. Who wouldn't fall in love with that cute little guy. Did I mention we had been in the sun on the bridge for about 5 hours at that point?



Enjoyed the company and the excuse to shut the computer down for a few hours and relax. Hope you all tied into Jaws at Broadwater! Next trip down we will have to take the SS Hardhead out to a few of my hardhead honey holes.