2 rainy days - 5 cats 2 2 2.5 2 5/8 3 lb

Yesterday - I was getting mad cause I've had bad weather for several days - not just rain to dodge but wind that beats me to death and also 'washes' off my favor (Secret-7) bait

I can sum up past few days - wet / windy - made me skip fishing or only trying for a short time before giving up.

Well I couldn't take it anymore and said I was going to try to fish for at least an hour no matter how much the wind beat up on me ;( It was about 5:30PM Well after 1 hour - I had one bite and was already starting to pack up my bait cans - when - yep you guessed it - I got a bite and grabbed rod and landed a 2 lb 10oz catfish. The bad news was that I had two other lines in the water and as sure as the current and wind had all lines close together - I had a huge mess of tangled lines.

I managed to get my 'real catfish rig' back in action but only after fighting for about 25 minutes to get the mess untangled - so as I started to work on the mess of lines - I got another catfish - almost immediately after getting my rod back in action.

I landed this one 2lb 1oz (I think - not which was next) - so I put rod back in action and forgot about the mess of line for about 10 minutes - at which time I decided the catfish had left so I went back to the mess of line - and yep you guessed it - I got the other catfish 2lb 8oz - and by not I had been out 1.5 hours but was tired (sick and tired of the boat beating me to death - - so I said to hell with it - and quit - cause by now it's 7PM and with the clouds looking more like rain and getting dark - so I came to the house - checked weight of fish - made photos - and decided it would get dark before I could finish cleaning the fish - so I put them in pen. I ended up cleaning them between 'waves or rain' - figuring I wouldn't get chance to fish again today

Summary: Only got about 5 bites and lost one that 'hooked for a short time' - and landed 3 = 2 lb - 2 1/2 lb - 2 5/8 lb :)

Today's fish tale:

The wind was not as bad today but there was more rain and radar kept showing 'more on the way' - so around 4PM - I saw 'forward radar' showing about one hour of no rain - so off I went. Hoping to get in an hour

Today was more work than yesterday - cause I got a couple dozen bites i.e. kept loosing bait to the bait thieves. But I had to stay because while I was fighting the bait thieves - my light weight crappie rod took off and landed in bottom of boat - and when I grabbed it - I had a fight on my hands - it was the 3lb 4oz and that made me go ahead and feed the bait thieves and about an hour later - I was looking one way and the same rod n reel tried to go overboard again - this time it was 2 lb 2oz on the light weight rod

BTW: The wind picked up and I ended up staying 1.5 hours and got a little wet - cause rain kept spitting in spurts after about 1 hour e.g. was lucky I got in 1.5 hours and also lucky it didn't rain as hard as the 'forward radar' indicated.

Summary: Lot of bites today and two hard fighting catfish especially since I got them on 4 lb line and very limber crappie rod. And I didn't get too wet but did get 'beat up by the wind - a little bit in last 30 minutes)