July 17, 2009: On This Friday morning I picked up Will and his 2 sons, Austin and Hunter at their dock in Pea Hill creek on Lake Gaston. This was to be a half day trip of 5 hours.

We started out fishing top water and looking for schoolers near the dam with little success. After 2 hours Austin, who is very good at walking the dog with spook type baits had only 2 blow ups. As usual when there is no top water bite we switch over to the Carolina rig and lizard. We fished small points with a rough bottom trying to avoid the slim or dying vegetation that is due to the chemicals that are put in the lake for vegetation control. This treatment does affect fishing negatively on Lake Gaston and others around the country. Anyway after several points Austin and Hunter finally slowed down their retrieve and both set the hook at the same time! They had a double, we landed both fish and a few more by lunch. At the end of our day Austin hooked into a 5 pounder in Pea Hill creek but it came off when it jumped, Austin was a little upset but he knows where that lunker lives. We all had a great time and Austin and Hunter out fished their Dad.