Dr. Sehyung October 2001

Dr. Sehyung is a visiting scientist from South Korea doing research in our lab on diabetes. This was his first trip out carp fishing and it didnt look good from the start. It was October, a cold front had just moved in the night before, the wind was howling and there were whitecaps on the river. It was blowing so bad that it blew spray from the river right into our faces. I was ready to pack up and head home but Sehyoung said he felt it was going to be a lucky day for fishing. I couldnt argue with logic so when the first carp hit, thinking it may be our only one we let Sehyung take the first run and it turned out to be a fiesty river carp that took him a tour of every rock up and down the bank.

The next run was my neice Brettneys, she played it as she has been playing carp since she was a little kid and landed the biggest one of the session so far. For this honor she was made to eat Korean style. Sehyung had prepared squid in hot sauce, Kim Chi and other Korean delicacies and made us eat them with chop sticks. As it was cold and windy the hot pepper sauce on the squid warmed us all up quickly, even Brettney who doesnt like hot peppers!

Finally it was my turn, a fast speedy run that had steam coming off the baitrunner promised a good fight and I wasnt dissapointed, somehow in my turn the little ones always show up when we are sharing rods.

The last carp of the day turned out to be the biggest, once again coming in on Brettneys turn. When you take kids fishing the BFCs seem to know when its the kids turn! We had run out of hot pepper squid to torture her with so she tortured us, or me rather, telling Sehyoung how often she caught the biggest carp when we went fishing together.

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