The day, Monday August 30th, dawned cloudy and cool. My friend, Curtis Drevets, a retired physician had invited me to accompany him and his carver friend Don, to a day of fishing at Kimbell Ranch. The ranch has about 30,000 acres of grassland with numerous ponds and lakes. Ed Kimbell, the owner, is a third generation rancher. His grandfather homesteaded in the late 1800's. They provide their grasslands for hundreds of heads of cattle. At this time most of them have gained the requisite 800 pounds and are on their way to feed yards to finish the fattening process prior to slaughter.
We arrived at the ranch about 8 AM. We went into the ranch house to pay our respects and visit with Mr. Kimbell and his foreman, Clint. After coffee and discussions involving cattle and fishing we were off to the first pond where we caught only a few bass. Then we moved on to the larger lake ringed with oak trees. It has a barbed wire fence gate, that requires a ranchers knack to open.
Fishing was better at this lake, with Curt catching the most as usual. We were ready to leave in the early afternoon. Reporting back to the ranch house and fileting the catch was next. Three happy and tired fishermen arrived back in Wichita about 4 o'clock.
