It is a very hot and humid summer July day. I went fishing at Roaches Run by DC Reagan National airport around 6pm. The high tide of the Potomac River is 7:12pm. 40 degrees humidity, air temperature was 78 degrees Fahrenheit. Water starts to rush into this little lake. I wasn't catching anything but saw big swerving here and there on the surface by big fish. Not sure what they are, but they must be fish. I finally got a fish on around 6:45pm. Wow, this fish felt like a big Catfish. She fought and tugged like a bull dog, and I took out my video camera started filming. I had to use my legs to hold the rod for a few nervous seconds, but I had no choice. I need this awesome catch in video so I must take the risk of losing it before I was able to net it and bring it into my Old town 14 feet canoe. Wow, she just wouldn't give up. She tried to get away as I was trying to net her. She broke away the first time I tried to net her. Luckily she was still hooked. I was finally able to net her and brought her into the canoe. A whopping 26 inches female snakehead. What a big mama, I found tons of eggs inside her after I gutted her out. That was 100,000 eggs (baby snakeheads eliminated).
Watch the snakehead catch on Youtube video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpi7lOVJ3SU
I didn't want to take the chance of her jumping out of my canoe, so I just killed her right away. On second thought, probably should take her to the shore and have a nice picture taken. Oh, well next time.
So I continued to fish and caught 2 more blue channel catfish. The larger one was measured 27 inches. I continued to fish and got rewarded by a gar fish. Here again, I had to pause to get my video camera on. Too bad, this time the gar fish broke loose and got away.
What a bummer, that is why you have to be extremely lucky to catch the action in a video. Fish takes advantage of loose line all the time and the big and experienced fish know how to survive the fight with a fisher man. Oh well, he would have been my fourth gar fish of 2016. It was getting dark, so I called it a quit for the day. Not a bad summer day fishing at Roaches Run. Total score - 1 big mama snakehead, 2 catfish and 0.5 gar fish.
All 4 big fish caught using a Rattlin Vintage Rapala firetiger lure. Here is a link to buy one that is similar to my vintage lure,
I have been postponing my much needed repair - Kohler toilet leak. It was not constant leak but like a "ghost leak" I hear the water running especially in my sleep when I was half awake in the early morning. Finally bit the bullet and did some youtube research for "How to fix it - DIY way?"
