Monday, March 20, 2017

A game of tag...

Haven't posted anything in a while. Not intentional. Just got to be a busy time with family stuff. And work at the end of the year. Also, flathead catfishing is really my main thing and the off-season is fairly long from November through April.

In October, my last trip to the river involved a little early morning fishing. Got one small flathead. The rest of the day was spent tagging flathead catfish with the ILDNR. Basically this involved following them around as they did low voltage shocking to bring up catfish. The fish were then tagged and released. An angler catfishing a tagged fish calls in the number and the DNR will record the size and location. They can also provide the angler with data regarding when the fish was last captured. Pretty cool stuff, especially if you're a catch and release enthusiast like me. 

I took pictures of all this. Lots of pictures. And I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story. It started out as a beautiful fall morning. The pictures don't really do justice to how nice the fall foliage was.