Well I dodged the rain and made dam be finally sunday. I headed out about 2pm and while driving over there noticed the right rear tire  on the boat trailer was vibrating. I pulled over and got out to check it out and sure enough it was throughing the tread off and had the wire showing. So I decided to go to Jasper which was only 8 miles away and see if I could get a tire at walmart. Well I got to walmart and they didnt have a trailer tire in that size, but did have a regular passenger tire. Only problem is they wouldnt put it on the trailer rim. Every where else in town was closed being sunday, so back to woodville I went. I barely made it to the woodville walmart parking lot when the tire let go. I went in and they also didnt have a trailer tire but (would) mount it on the trailer rim(whats up with that) but wouldnt take it off. So off I went to get a 4way out of automotive and went out side and took the tire off and they replaced it. Will have to get a spare as soon as possible so I dont have this problem again.

 Well then it was back on the road and heading back over to the river. I got there put the boat in and away I went in the high current. The lake is about 2′ above normal at the moment with all the rain we have been having.  I stopped at the first cut I came to and went in. There is grass everywhere since they left the lake dry for a year to kill aquatic vegatation and do some hurricane rita cleanup. Well woulnt you know I left my polarized glasses at home and couldnt hardly see and wouldnt you know a 50lb range carp came right out from under me as I got my bow ready and that was all of that. I did manage to shoot a lot of small car and drum around through there by putting the sun at my back. I came up  on a gar laying on top off the grass and could tell he was fairly long but didnt really look that big. So I eased up on him and let the arrow fly, hitting him right behind the gills. I pulled him up and it turned out to be a 5ft gator gar weighing in around 75lbs or so. I knew he was long but didnt think he was that long.

I hit several other cuts and shot some more smaller gar and drum, but never made it down to the 190 bridge where the huge grass flats are. I have been hearing reports of tons of gar,carp and buffalo from that area, and will go back one night this week to see how it is on it at night. Will keep you updated.