Post by Tracy on Jun 6, 2010 18:00:47 GMT -5
Back in 1985 up at my parents cabin in webb lake Wisconsin,
on the lake called long lake.
I was 16 yrs. old at the time. and my parents have a float bike, in other words called a paddle boat, we use it to exercise with and to fish off of it.
My dad had to work and we drove up in separate cars. it was around the 4th of July, weekend.
it was on a sat. and my dad had to go back to work and me and my mom stayed a day or 2 longer. my mom and I were watching a fish program on how to catch walleyes in 25 feet of water, and it showed us what to fish with , which was a little joe spinner bait with a walleye minnow and we went out on the paddle boat and fished in 25 feet of water, the lake was really busy and it was really hot out and I had my swimsuite on underneath my clothes that day, and when I went to hook my minnow it started to bleed.... and told my mom as she told me to cast it out anyway and we trolled back and forth. there were skiers coming left and right around us, and the waves felt like they were going to tip us over and we didn't have a decent net to scoop the fish up in other then a a minnow net that people use for fish in ponds, ect. it was around 5pm on the 5th of July and my mom caught a 4 pound Northern in 25 feet of water, and so we kept it and put it on a stringer. then we turned around and headed back to the cabin trolling once again in the same depth of water when i started complaining about it being to hot.and my mom then told me to take my shirt off and all then it happened when i was trying to take off my shirt, to get cooler, and my line started to ding... then my mom thought i got hooked up on a log in the water and i said oh no its not its a fish. I told her. I must have had alot of line out for it took for ever to bring it in, and my mom had a hold of the minnow net I told her it was a big fish and all she could see now was its yellow belly. by this time my mom had a hard time in the front of the paddle boat to keep from falling into the water and by the time the fish startyed to show its self we were 5 houses down from where I caught it, it had dragged us down the lake and dove back down in the deep water several times. and my arms and hands were getting tired. we were laughing and screaming all at the same time. and we now had a big adience on our side of the lake gauking at us... to see what all the comotion was all about. it took 10 minutes to bring it in. my mom scooped him up finally and it was a good thing she did for the hook was just hooked of his top lip of its mouth and looked like it was ready to break from the fish.We didn't want to lose it as it was to big for the net and all and we paddled into shore. I was all wore out and excited all at the same time and alot of our neighbors came to see what we had brought in. our next door neighbor said that, that was the biggest northern he has seen from the lake and wanted to take the hook out and I tried to tell him it wasn't in the fishes mouth and it bit him, then we hooked a longer and different stringer to it and and tide it to the dock, we then sat for a bit and talked to the others about how it happened and they couldn't believe a big fish like that was caught while on a paddle boat. we then took it in to get weighed and it was 9 &1/2 pounds. the biggest northern i ever saw come out of that lake. then we came and put it back in the water on a stringer and the next day it was almost belly up since i told my mom I wanted it mounted up on my wall and all. and we didn't have a freezer big enough to put it in. so we asked the land lady if we could use hers and when we were realdy to go back home and we picked it up along the way, we pulled up in the driveway as my dad came out of the house and saw me bring in a wrapped up news paper and asked if we had gone to a garage sale or something and i went and pput the fish on the dinning room table, and my dad asked me what it was and I told him to take alook, my mom was so proud of her fish that she caught so many minutes before mine and said my fish made hers look like a guppy... then my dad unwrapped it and took a step back and said woe, that is a monster of a fish where did you get it and i told him I told him and he didn't want to believe me, but he did... after awhile and that it came out of our lake up there and the lake is very clear so its sort of hard to catch the fish there since they can see you and all... it took days and days for the taxydermist to get my fish done. But when he was finally done. and ever since then people that own a paddle boat of their own have been fishing off of there's Strange how you can start something isn't it and have others follow and do the same thing, but, I will never forget the day I had catching that big fish that made us look so funny out on the lake that day, pulling us across it on a paddle boat no less. its was like mom mom told me that it was like he was the boat and we were the skiers.
and thats how the fish got called to be the monster of the lake of 1985 at 6pm in the afternoon... of the 4th of July weekend, talk aboout a celebration...
The end....
on the lake called long lake.
I was 16 yrs. old at the time. and my parents have a float bike, in other words called a paddle boat, we use it to exercise with and to fish off of it.
My dad had to work and we drove up in separate cars. it was around the 4th of July, weekend.
it was on a sat. and my dad had to go back to work and me and my mom stayed a day or 2 longer. my mom and I were watching a fish program on how to catch walleyes in 25 feet of water, and it showed us what to fish with , which was a little joe spinner bait with a walleye minnow and we went out on the paddle boat and fished in 25 feet of water, the lake was really busy and it was really hot out and I had my swimsuite on underneath my clothes that day, and when I went to hook my minnow it started to bleed.... and told my mom as she told me to cast it out anyway and we trolled back and forth. there were skiers coming left and right around us, and the waves felt like they were going to tip us over and we didn't have a decent net to scoop the fish up in other then a a minnow net that people use for fish in ponds, ect. it was around 5pm on the 5th of July and my mom caught a 4 pound Northern in 25 feet of water, and so we kept it and put it on a stringer. then we turned around and headed back to the cabin trolling once again in the same depth of water when i started complaining about it being to hot.and my mom then told me to take my shirt off and all then it happened when i was trying to take off my shirt, to get cooler, and my line started to ding... then my mom thought i got hooked up on a log in the water and i said oh no its not its a fish. I told her. I must have had alot of line out for it took for ever to bring it in, and my mom had a hold of the minnow net I told her it was a big fish and all she could see now was its yellow belly. by this time my mom had a hard time in the front of the paddle boat to keep from falling into the water and by the time the fish startyed to show its self we were 5 houses down from where I caught it, it had dragged us down the lake and dove back down in the deep water several times. and my arms and hands were getting tired. we were laughing and screaming all at the same time. and we now had a big adience on our side of the lake gauking at us... to see what all the comotion was all about. it took 10 minutes to bring it in. my mom scooped him up finally and it was a good thing she did for the hook was just hooked of his top lip of its mouth and looked like it was ready to break from the fish.We didn't want to lose it as it was to big for the net and all and we paddled into shore. I was all wore out and excited all at the same time and alot of our neighbors came to see what we had brought in. our next door neighbor said that, that was the biggest northern he has seen from the lake and wanted to take the hook out and I tried to tell him it wasn't in the fishes mouth and it bit him, then we hooked a longer and different stringer to it and and tide it to the dock, we then sat for a bit and talked to the others about how it happened and they couldn't believe a big fish like that was caught while on a paddle boat. we then took it in to get weighed and it was 9 &1/2 pounds. the biggest northern i ever saw come out of that lake. then we came and put it back in the water on a stringer and the next day it was almost belly up since i told my mom I wanted it mounted up on my wall and all. and we didn't have a freezer big enough to put it in. so we asked the land lady if we could use hers and when we were realdy to go back home and we picked it up along the way, we pulled up in the driveway as my dad came out of the house and saw me bring in a wrapped up news paper and asked if we had gone to a garage sale or something and i went and pput the fish on the dinning room table, and my dad asked me what it was and I told him to take alook, my mom was so proud of her fish that she caught so many minutes before mine and said my fish made hers look like a guppy... then my dad unwrapped it and took a step back and said woe, that is a monster of a fish where did you get it and i told him I told him and he didn't want to believe me, but he did... after awhile and that it came out of our lake up there and the lake is very clear so its sort of hard to catch the fish there since they can see you and all... it took days and days for the taxydermist to get my fish done. But when he was finally done. and ever since then people that own a paddle boat of their own have been fishing off of there's Strange how you can start something isn't it and have others follow and do the same thing, but, I will never forget the day I had catching that big fish that made us look so funny out on the lake that day, pulling us across it on a paddle boat no less. its was like mom mom told me that it was like he was the boat and we were the skiers.
and thats how the fish got called to be the monster of the lake of 1985 at 6pm in the afternoon... of the 4th of July weekend, talk aboout a celebration...
The end....