No, not every damn story on this site is about Mike Calloway and no I've never written a story about tournament prefishing before and you shouldn't look for another one ever, but this story is different. It's the kind of thing a person dreams about for a lifetime. It's the kind of thing that never really happens to you unless your name is Dean Rojas. You see, Mike Calloway and his pal Lloyd Griffin decided to spend a day on Lake Toho in January to learn something before our club tournament and have some fun. They didn't go home at 3pm. They didn't even go home at 5pm. They fished until the sun went down, and they'll never forget what happened in that last hour of the day.
They caught 4 of their best 5 fish for the day in under an hour amassing a conservatively estimated 5 fish total weight of over 28 pounds. Do I have your attention yet? No? Are you alive? Fine, how about some more facts then? They caught two fish in 15 minutes that weighed a combined 22 pounds and 3 ounces. Imagine that for a second. One giant fish catch followed by at least 10 minutes of joyous foul language, ear to ear smiles, weak knees, shaky hands, and the kind of genuine excitement we've managed to lose touch with from our youth. Just when the fish is released and a hint of calm and satisfaction starts to crack the excitement in the air, another monster bites. This is not a dream, it really happened.
The first fish was a 12 pound 12 ounce magnificent freak of nature and Lloyd Griffin was good enough and lucky enough to catch her. The second fish was a 9 pound 7 ounce bucket mouth and Mike Calloway caught that one.
Why are you still reading this and not looking at the pictures?
Oh, right, you want to know how this happened. Well, I don't have any damn clue and I'm not asking those kinds of questions about this kind of thing. It's too special to and it doesn't matter anyway. The only thing that matters is that it happened and those two guys will have those memories and blurry pictures for the rest of their lives. This time of year people get all uptight about bed fishing, so let me just say that they weren't sight fishing and these fish weren't on beds.
Now quit browsing the damn internet and get out on the water. You never know when the stuff you've been dreaming a lifetime about might actually happen to you.
