Fishing

It's 5:30 in the afternoon. I'm just getting off of work. I walk out the doors of the business that I work at located in a small town located in southwestern Minnesota. The day is finally over and now I get to go enjoy the rest of my day. Quickly, I leave the shop and jump in my truck. I drive up to the local gas station and fill my truck up and grab a piece of pizza along with a couple other things. Then I get back into my truck and head out of town to pick up a buddy of mine. Earlier we had made plans to go fishing. I pull up to his house and we put his fishing pole, tackle box, and cooler in the box of the truck. Now we're off to my house to grab my pole, tackle box, bucket and anything else we might need. We check the bait that we had bought to use a few days ago, but sure enough, all of it was dead. O well, we have PowerBait! We get back into the truck and drive down the road headed for the lake that we have heard of some fish biting at. On the way we discuss a few things, including our bet for the night. The bet was decided to be for the first fish caught, first keeper, and biggest keeper. For each of these we would give the other a $1 scratch off lottery ticket. That gave us the chance to win $3 of lottery tickets which could possibly give us even more money. As we pull up to the lake we notice something we hadn't really thought about earlier when we made the plans. It was pretty windy out. Earlier in the day is was dead calm so we thought it would be a great day to go fishing. We didn't realize that the wind had picked up more than we thought it did. We see the waves but we go fishing anyways. We got there just in time because as soon as we get out another truck pulls up and the people get out to get some fishing in too. The spot we decided to fish on had water washing over it quite a bit whereas the other day we went fishing when it was calm, there was no wind so it was a pretty dry area. It was a good thing that I had worn my waterproof boots that I still had on from work. I walked out into the little crick and stood on a couple rocks where the water was just washing over my feet. My buddy stood up on a big rock on the edge because he didn't have waterproof boots on. We casted out multiples of times. I caught the first fish. A small crappie. That meant I got a dollar scratch off. Next, my buddy caught a few more small crappies and a small sunfish. Also, he had a carp that bit his hook. We almost had it landed but then it snapped his line. When he put the new lure on, he seemed to be having a lot of luck with it. He caught a lot of small crappies. Then he hooked another nice sized fish. This one was a bullhead. He almost had the fish in his hand when it snapped his line. That's two fishing lures that fish had made off with. We spent about another half hour there but didn't have much luck after he lost the second hook. At this point, despite my boots being waterproof, my feet were soaked. There was quite a few waves that washed over the tops of my boots. Right before we decided to leave, I caught another small crappie but we decided to call it quits being as not much was biting. My buddy caught the first and biggest keeper since we had only caught one worthy of keeping. Now I owe him a couple scratch offs. We had a great time just hanging out together and are looking forward to the next time we go back. Hopefully the next time won't be so windy.