Location:S 1st St,Austin,United States

OK, so this iPhone BlogPress app is far from good when adding pictures as it adds the pics vertical and there is no way to add them horizontal, hence when I get home I have to open up photoshop and correct this which is a major pain in the butt as the whole idea of this was to add these blogs whilst fishing not waste time when I'm supposed to be working.

So the location my iPhone gave me when I uploaded the pictures are scary and (click the location link above) I will have to remember not to use that function if I want to keep anything secret.

My left boot has a hole and I'm soaked up to the knee, I'm glad I'm only fishing for 5 or 6 hours.

At about 4:30pm the rod I have out slightly under 1st Street bridge goes, it quickly turns out from under the bridge which is surprising as they usualy want to tear off underneath the bridge. Anyway my middle rod goes, to start off with I think the first fish has snagged the line but as the fish turns to my right I realise I have another fish on by the time I get the first fish in the net the other fish is under the bridge heading for Waco. The Shimano's hold a lot of line and there is a good bit of it out. Anyway I have one fish in the net (it's times like this I'm glad I got a 50" landing net) and the other god knows how far out. My right fore arm is getting sore after pumping this fish in which seems like I've been forever, it's not fighting much which is probably a good job anyway long story short I get it to within 25 yards of the bank and it gets snagged so I start wondering if this might be a chance to unhook the first fish but before I could even lay my rod down the fish came free and after a few more minutes I slid the second (larger of the two) fish in the net. I'm getting pretty good at getting two in the same net at the same time without letting the other get out.

Another view to show how fat the second fish was:

The first was 17lb 7oz and the second was 27lb 15oz.

Finally about 5:30pm I caught another small common an ounce short of 13lb.

A couple of firsts today, the first time fishing The Rocks and the first time fishing with my new Shimano LC's.

We got here about 10;30am and found a crap load of snakes about 2-3 feet long, we later found out from JD that they were diamond back water snakes, a good job they were not diamond back rattlers lol

First fish on right hand rod about 2/3rds of the way out, lost on snag about 20 yards from the bank. I had my left hand rod out maybe 20 yards from the south bank about 70 yards upstream about 2pm I got a take on it and it was a heavy fish, it did not have fast runs at all though it was not letting me turn it at all, I noticed that the rod was bent over pretty constantly and it was not up and down as usual, I put this down to the very smooth clutch of the LC's, the Shimano 10K Aero's tended to give bursts of line. anyway as I said this fish was heavy and took a while for me to turn it, when I did it went straight for the same sang as before. After I got snagged up a few more times I was reluctant to cast out at all.

After Matt landed one safely, (he netted it on his own lol I told him I wasn't getting in with all them bloody sankes around, that was before I found out they were harmless.) I thought I'd give it another go. As the water was coming up pretty quickly (the hydroelectric damns were open) I waded out to bring my pod a little bit closer to shore and a 4 foot snake swam right in front of me just as I got out the water.

Just as we were ready to pack up I got a 20lb Channel Catfish which I got 2/3rds of the way out and landed it easily as it came straight to the top and I simply pulled it over top the snags, I also think the deeper water helped with this.

Finally about 6:30pm or so I had a 12lb common.

Location:The Rocks