Great Fishing

By Connor

I was fishing at my secret pond.  For bait we were using night crawlers.

We got there and we were setting up our gear and my dad was seeing big fish. I made my first cast and a second passed and I had a bluegill. We started seeing carp jump. We were hoping we would catch one. I made a cast and something was playing with. It finally took and I set the hook. It was fighting harder than most of the bluegills. I thought it was just a big bluegill. We got it in and it was a bass around 10 inches. That was the second bass I caught from there.

We kept on fishing and we kept on catching bluegill. It was getting late and my dad wanted me to catch one big fish. He put on what was left of a worm in hopes of a catfish and possibly a carp. We were standing there getting eaten alive by mosquitoes.(We didn’t bring any bug spray). I then hooked into a big fish. I set my drag super low because we had light line. It swam into the weeds and I thought I lost it. So I was pulling and it finally came out. I got it close to shore and it looked like a carp. My dad netted the fish and he said” That looks like a bass”. I got real exited. We got up on shore an I could easily see it was the biggest bass I have ever caught. The hook was hanging on by a tiny piece of skin. The weird thing was, before we were going I said that I highly doubted we wold catch a bass.