We had another long paddling day today. We tried to start earlier, but we didn't get off until 10:30 again this morning. We made our destination be a campsite 17.5 miles away and we set a goal to be there by 6 in order to set up camp. The last two nights we had skated in a little too late and had to rush to set up camp, and we wanted to avoid that again tonight. We caught a couple more fish along the way trolling but nothing noteworthy. When we finally got to the campsite, I baited the limb lines with cut up bass I had saved yesterday for bait. We talked to a very nice country man by the name of James Harper who told us many of his stories from his past. We were able to film parts of it, I am hoping that the audio turned out alright. After talking to him for a hour or so, I decided to cook dinner. When I walked to the river to get water for pasta, I saw one of the limb lines bouncing a whole branch up and down. I jumped in the kayak and paddled over. A minute later, I had a 10 or 12 pound catfish in the boat. I've never seen a fish so fat. We decided that we would waste too much of the fish if we decided to eat it, because we probably could barely finish one filet for dinner and we don't have a cooler. I reset the lines so we are hoping to have catfish for breakfast tomorrow.
Tomorrow we will go about 10 miles to our next campsite on lake seminole. Supposedly the fishing is amazing, so I am happy to have a shorter day tomorrow. I hope the weather continues to cooperate!
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