Ok, after breakfast this morning my wife reminded me that Christmas was getting close and I still didn't have our lights and reindeer up outside yet. She also reminded me that 2 fishing trips I took recently were the reason. After not having much of a comeback I decided to go on out with the kids and put up the lights and deer in the wind. Got that stuff done and decided to rake up a few leaves, what I could catch anyway. I think more blew away than what I could bag.
Now the whole time this is going on, I swear that new FnF rod that came in yesterday was calling my name. So after the chores I slipped on a reel that had some Gamma on. Tied on a 3 way swivel that I happened to find in my tackle box. Tied on a 10 foot leader of fluoro and then the little jig. Now keep in mind, I still didn't have on the weighted float but I wanted to practice throwing that big awkard rig. I cast about 4 or 5 times out in the yard and was pretty happy with the distance (considering the weight). On the last cast I just started shaking the rod to get a feel for the action, not really paying attention to the jig. Then I looked up and a bird had flown down and was heading away with the jig in it's beak. Now I tell you, I don't know if it was instinct or what, but it was all I could do not to cross his eyes when he took off with that jig. He got up about 10 or 15 feet and dropped it and I was laughing my tail off. Maybe that's a good sign of things to come with this rig, but then again he did get off.:)
