Chasing a bobber

[Fishhound]

It seems as though this may be a fairly common experience. The same thing happened to me about a month ago at Utah Lake. I also finned around for about ten minutes trying to get the bobber. I first tried my landing net but, it kept getting away. Then I loaded my largest Kastmaster on my reel and fired away at it until I snagged it. Then, I was treated to a fight with a mudcat that was on the other end. I got it aboard my tube and extracted the hook and recovered a bobber. It is one of those bobbers that has a battery in it and ball bearings to make it rattle. The batteries were dead, so I don't know if the mud had been dragging that bobber around since someone lost it night fishing the day before. It could have been a long night for that bullhead. I'll have to get batteries for the bobber and see if it still works - it looks like it's brand new.
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