While waiting for my daughter to have her first baby the night of August 12 (my wife wanted to watch the birth online!), our two sons and I hung out at Warden Lake and chatted while swatting mosquitos and searching the shallows for bullfrogs with a flashlight. While doing that, we noticed a ton of bullhead babies, so we knew the lake had bullhead grownups. We decided to give the lake a try as soon as possible.

So, my younger son Tim and I took our little boat out to the lake on September 17 just as the sun was setting, and fished for about an hour and a half just offshore. We took one trout and a bunch of bullhead catfish, all the while perfecting our hook-setting skills to the point where the catfish could be hooked without swallowing the hook. We ended up keeping 13 bullheads, and they became part of a delicious meal the following day.