Mission accomplished...sort of.

I was up at 4:30 and headed out to my new favorite little spot. The weather was cool in the low 60's and overcast. Mission accomplished, I did in fact catch two fish and have them filleted and standing in the kitchen by 7 am. Now as for the size of the fillets, they were a lot closer to one ounce than they were to six ounces. Today was a real challenge so I wanted to use my best bait and my best spot, you know based on my three weeks or so of experience fishing. So I stuck with my Berkley Gulp Minnows and went back to the train trestle by Hebert Foundry in Laconia and I caught two little rock bass in a hour and a half. I've been trying to cast close to the trestle which is a little tricky when your standing on it. The second wrinkle is a fairly swift current in most places. Today I found a pile of rocks at the base of one of the supports where the current isn't quite as fast so I can cast away from the trestle and let it drift back into the rock pile with just a little twitch on the pole to make the minnow behave a little more minnow-like.

They were really modest little guys and let me tell you they look a hell of a lot less impressive when you fillet them. But I wanted to practice the actual process of filleting. As I told Renee unless you practice filleting a slippery fish isn't exactly the easiest thing in the world to do. Renee, I'm sure knows a lot more about filleting than I ever will, but she's kind enough to humor me.