Worst Early Season Yet

This has been the worst early season I've had yet. I've only caught four fish, and considering that we've been fishing for five weeks that isn't good. Three have been pickerel, which is also not good if you're fishing for bass. My last came today, and it was part tragedy and part comedy. The funny part was in how I was trying to unhook it. It inhaled my lure and wasn't going to give it up. So I went to my car (actually my mother's car, since mine was in the shop) and got a set of pliers. It still wasn't going without a fight, and by this time it was bleeding all over the place. So I figured it was dead and that I would just keep it. Except I didn't want to put it in the back of my mother's car and have it make a mess. I found a plastic bag from a grocery store and figured I could put it in there, but when I went for it a bunch of half-smoked cigarettes came flying out all over me. So there I am covered in slime, fish blood and cigarette ash, holding a half-dead pick. So I just cut it off and threw it in the trunk and went home. I killed it pretty quickly, which made me feel a little better until I cut it open. It was FULL of eggs. So I killed a healthy, breeding fish. Which seemed about right, since the rest of the day was not much better--my car cost me about $600 to get fixed.