Keeping your spot a secret

I put my boat in at Mcgowan Brake which is known for huge chinquapin. Most people fish an old power line and do real well. That was my plan that day. I was cranking my old johnson 9 1/2 and flooded the cantankerous thing.

So I put a cricket on my ultra light and tossed it by the fence bordering the ramp. Boom...cork gone. threw out another cricket and cork goes under before it hits the water.

Now others were launching so I took the cover off the motor. sometimes with a nice Chinq on the line pretending to be working on the motor. 5 or 6 people offered to help me or even tow me to the old power line but I respectfully declined.

I sat there and caught about 50 (ok maybe 70) hogs and never got 25 yards from the launch.