Bonefish, where art thou you non-fish catching Sun of a Gun
The title says it all except you are a Professional Limb netter - right down to the Professional Limb Netting Stance - You Sun
Of a Gun. To crimping all of his barbs in at Ky Lake - to get a better hookset (as I still shake my head on that logic) to a guy that would bring a Banana in a Man’s boat right down to ONE OF THE BEST BUDDY’s A GUY COULD HAVE!!! Check your messages and call me
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Bonefish The Fish Netting Legend - I do mean LEGEND!!!!
Bonefish and “The Netjob”
Boys and girls, as fishermen we have ALL been known to stretch our stories from a 5 pounder to just shy of 6, from a 17lb sack to saying it was a good 18 1/2. But the story I’m about to tell you is ABSOLUTELY 110% truthful and I even have my Brother, 3sons aka Willey, as a 3rd member of my boat that morning will agree with every word.
It was mid December 2009, when Bonefish was in the back of my boat, Willey in the middle and me at the helm playing good guide if I was behind in the count or as usual giving the fellas a behind the woodshed butt whipping when I was up in the numbers of fish caught. I am fishing this one small pocket on my early milkrun thst has been producing solid fish all winter even gave up the winning fish for us during the Billy Westmorland Tourney a couple weeks earlier. So I was hitting this spot offen and knew there was a small tree underwater just off the right hand point. If I could cast and get my FNF jig to free fall down the face of the branches and not get hung seemed to produce a good quality fish. To far away from the outer edge with cast and nothing. Too close and. You are hung in the tree top - which is exactly what I did when I whispered to Mike “when I say get the net hand it to Bone”. About that time I reared back to further imbed the hook into the limb and I was just going to move the boat around until Bone realized the fish wasn’t coming up and we were actually moving towards the line. But when I set the hook, I actually broke off a pretty good section and Now I had to learn what speed to run the boat at to give the allusion of me fighting a big old big gun. While this is going on Willey is about to Piss all over himself knowing it’s all a hoax and it’s a dam good thing I have the bladder of a horse because inside i was laughing harder than watching Liar Liar for the first time.
I am moving the boat faster and slower to give the allusion of the “Timbermouth Bass” was coming to the top or diving deep. But the real show was in the boat. My man Bone has now transferred into SNM. I see him wearing the TEAL PINK AND PURPLE SPANDEX Costume with “SNM” flashing Blink Blink Blink Blinkety Blink across his chest ......, sorry added a little fisherman embelishing....,,,the SNM was not flashing at all ..........but there Bone was putting on his Weight Lifting Gloves and assuming the Super Net-Man position ready to stab and bring aboard the Big Old Biggin when I hit her close. Willey has got a steady flow of 98.6 liquid running down his leg about to fill up his boot and now comes time to reveal the “TimberBass” to Bonefish. I speed up the trolling motor so the Limb comes to the top of the water back near Bonefish and I’m yelling “Get him Bone Get him”. Mind you I have been talking at how much bigger this fish felt the whole fight. Bonefish was ready. The “Timberbass” breaks the surface and I’m yelling get him Bone get him. Bonefish stabs the water and now has just netted part of a limb and he is in shock until he realizes Willey and I was in it the whole time. From full netting ergonomically approved netting position he stared straight at me and said these 6 words I will NEVER forget. “YOU SON OF A BUCK, YOU’” then dropped the net grabbed his FNF Rod and made a cast. While Willey and myself was trying to not fall out of the boat only by hugging each other. Willey never admitted to it but there was a steady stream of fluid running out the bottom of his coveralls and he squished every time he sat down the rest of the day
(Ok a little more embelishing on the last part but the majority of the rest is the Gospel, if you was there just the thought of Bone in full netting stance puts a smile on my face).