This fish story is dedicated to Fat Albert.
There I was, sitting in the middle of the boat not catching squat. Alvin had just put 5 bass in the boat and Jimmy had put 3 or so including a 4lb smallie. I made a regular cast at the end of the golf course with little hope of a fish hitting my lure. I began hopping the tube along the botton, hop, hop when all of sudden one nailed it. I pulled back on the rod with all my might and the battle began. At first the mighty beast went down stream, then up, then under the boat. The poor drag on the Shinamo spinning reel was screaming with agony. Alvin was in the back scrambling for net and all Jimmy could say was "He's gonna break the rod, easy!!!!" As the huge fish came to the surface Alvin was shaking with excitement. All I could think was "Get the net under it, get the net under it!!!" Alvin did a masterful job getting the huge fish into the net. As the fish lay there all the three of us could think about was "This thing is the new world record!!!". But then I remembered the long thread about the hybrids and figured TWRA would find some reason this huge fish would not be elligable. They would call it a smallmouth/largemouth hybrid, or a drum/smallmouth hybrid, or just a drum! With my sprits broken we took a picture of the beast and let her go. We estimated the girl at 15lbs. The amazing thing about this story is I caught another one the same size about an hour later. These were the two largest ones I have every caught and I hope Dhaun puts me in the HOF.
The rest of the day was so, so. Jimmy put a little 4lb smallie in the boat and Alvin followed that up with a minner of fish at 2.5lbs. We managed to put 12 bass in the boat not including the 2 world record fish. The weather was good we just could not find fish today. The water temp was below 50 and it was 53 last Sunday. This 4-5 degree temp drop was not helping matters.
There I was, sitting in the middle of the boat not catching squat. Alvin had just put 5 bass in the boat and Jimmy had put 3 or so including a 4lb smallie. I made a regular cast at the end of the golf course with little hope of a fish hitting my lure. I began hopping the tube along the botton, hop, hop when all of sudden one nailed it. I pulled back on the rod with all my might and the battle began. At first the mighty beast went down stream, then up, then under the boat. The poor drag on the Shinamo spinning reel was screaming with agony. Alvin was in the back scrambling for net and all Jimmy could say was "He's gonna break the rod, easy!!!!" As the huge fish came to the surface Alvin was shaking with excitement. All I could think was "Get the net under it, get the net under it!!!" Alvin did a masterful job getting the huge fish into the net. As the fish lay there all the three of us could think about was "This thing is the new world record!!!". But then I remembered the long thread about the hybrids and figured TWRA would find some reason this huge fish would not be elligable. They would call it a smallmouth/largemouth hybrid, or a drum/smallmouth hybrid, or just a drum! With my sprits broken we took a picture of the beast and let her go. We estimated the girl at 15lbs. The amazing thing about this story is I caught another one the same size about an hour later. These were the two largest ones I have every caught and I hope Dhaun puts me in the HOF.
The rest of the day was so, so. Jimmy put a little 4lb smallie in the boat and Alvin followed that up with a minner of fish at 2.5lbs. We managed to put 12 bass in the boat not including the 2 world record fish. The weather was good we just could not find fish today. The water temp was below 50 and it was 53 last Sunday. This 4-5 degree temp drop was not helping matters.
