Scott Hammer TOXIC
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Last year on St Clair, Mac and I were fishing out of mini's boat (thanks again Mini) and we were catching good fish at the "Mile Roads". The dock talk had the fish in 8-12ft and done spawning. There were probably 10-15 boats in that range (including Carlos, Marke and Neeley). That depth is about 1/2 mile off shore at the roads. Mac looks at me and says "let's go in shallow and see if the 2nd wave has moved up. It's waay too crowded out here". We were drifting tubes/grubs and of course I was fishing the "Wong Rig" most of the time 
. Like I said we were doing OK catching 2-3lb buck males which reinforced the notion that the big girls had not moved up yet. We moved in and were checking out the old beds and they were empty. Then all of a sudden Mac went on point and said "there's a PIG on that bed" 2 casts later he ripped a 4 pounder. Drifted over another bed and WHAM he nailed another. Took me about an hour to get "the eye" to be able to see them but then it was game on!! We probably caught 25 4-5 lbers, Mac nailed a solid 6 and then he lost a 6 for me but that's another story:lol: :lol:. We kept a low profile so that we didn't get swarmed by other boats and we finally got so tired we needed to take a break and drifted out deep. Who did we see when we got out there? Kim Stricker and he was filming a Hook n' Look episode with Charles Davis, Motown great from the band The Contours (biggest hit "Do You Love Me"). We motored up and Mac shot the bull with Kim and I explained the "wong rig" and everybody got a laugh. We told them that there were some big girls up shallow. He commented that they were filming a jerkbait show and had to stay out deeper. Charles sang some Lou Rawls for us and we went back in and proceeded to have one of the best big fish days I have ever had on St Clair. End of story right.....Nope, fast forward to me here in Florida. Set the HD DVR to film a few fishing shows since we got Versus back. One of them was Hook n' Look. I was bored and had 9 shows recorded so I was watching them when all of a sudden there was the episode with Charles. I'm watching where they are fishing, .......yep there's the tower, then they were up to the mile roads and there are some boats in the shots. Can't make anyone out and then they cut to Kim catching a good 4lber and they were in a lot closer....hmmmm, I was lookin for Neeley or Carlos' rigs but they have Yamaha's.... all I see is a maroon boat with a Merc.....Then it hits me ....THAT'S ME AND MAC in Mini's boat, so after I cleaned up the Jack and Coke I blew through my nose, I backed it up and sure enough there's 2 fat guys on the front deck of a Ranger, who look like the hunchback of Notre Dame both staring down into the water!! :lol: :lol::lol::lol: Bed fishing fools!!
And that my friends, is the rest of the story!!
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. Like I said we were doing OK catching 2-3lb buck males which reinforced the notion that the big girls had not moved up yet. We moved in and were checking out the old beds and they were empty. Then all of a sudden Mac went on point and said "there's a PIG on that bed" 2 casts later he ripped a 4 pounder. Drifted over another bed and WHAM he nailed another. Took me about an hour to get "the eye" to be able to see them but then it was game on!! We probably caught 25 4-5 lbers, Mac nailed a solid 6 and then he lost a 6 for me but that's another story:lol: :lol:. We kept a low profile so that we didn't get swarmed by other boats and we finally got so tired we needed to take a break and drifted out deep. Who did we see when we got out there? Kim Stricker and he was filming a Hook n' Look episode with Charles Davis, Motown great from the band The Contours (biggest hit "Do You Love Me"). We motored up and Mac shot the bull with Kim and I explained the "wong rig" and everybody got a laugh. We told them that there were some big girls up shallow. He commented that they were filming a jerkbait show and had to stay out deeper. Charles sang some Lou Rawls for us and we went back in and proceeded to have one of the best big fish days I have ever had on St Clair. End of story right.....Nope, fast forward to me here in Florida. Set the HD DVR to film a few fishing shows since we got Versus back. One of them was Hook n' Look. I was bored and had 9 shows recorded so I was watching them when all of a sudden there was the episode with Charles. I'm watching where they are fishing, .......yep there's the tower, then they were up to the mile roads and there are some boats in the shots. Can't make anyone out and then they cut to Kim catching a good 4lber and they were in a lot closer....hmmmm, I was lookin for Neeley or Carlos' rigs but they have Yamaha's.... all I see is a maroon boat with a Merc.....Then it hits me ....THAT'S ME AND MAC in Mini's boat, so after I cleaned up the Jack and Coke I blew through my nose, I backed it up and sure enough there's 2 fat guys on the front deck of a Ranger, who look like the hunchback of Notre Dame both staring down into the water!! :lol: :lol::lol::lol: Bed fishing fools!!And that my friends, is the rest of the story!!
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