MrWiskers, Riverpark, Bassin, 5-7-2014, Cuonthelake

[MrWiskers]

<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Got out on the river today with Candi to try to put her on some good Riverpark bass. Today was the exact opposite of yesterday and we had to work super hard for the fish we caught. TVA dropped the water about a foot or more overnight and the fish did not like it very well. </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Started out at the bend thinking the topwater bite would be on fire. Nope. Got a few but it was slow. Gave up and headed up river and again slow, slow, slow. Hit a bank downtown that has been good to us this spring and finally got into some fish. We stayed downtown the rest of the trip. Candi got a super nice 2 lb or so meanmouth that destroyed the torpedo. We moved to one of my favorite banks, one where my cousin got a 6.5 lber last year on a torpedo, and inalmost the exact spot Candi had a good one just come up and slurp the torpedo down. Turned out to be her personal best largemouth at 4.1 lbs. Can’t beat that. We tried for my spring time smallies and never got a hit. Did one drift with the drop shot and picked up 5 cats and rock bass, no smallies wanted to play with us today.</font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">Made one more move to another of my favorite spring time banks. Picked up a couple spots on a pig n jig and I threw up in about</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="3"> </font></span><font size="3">2 feet of water by some laydowns and felt a pecking on the jig. Thought it was a rock bass and set the hook. The water exploaded when up came a 5.88 lb largemouth!!! Fish was HUGE and would have went 7-8 lbs pre-spawn. Awesome, my second 6 lb class fish in two trips. A 6 lb class fish in 2 feet of water at high noon. Unreal. </font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">We fished for another 30 minutes, got a few spots, and called it a day. </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri" size="3">For our efforts we boated 17 spots, 1 meanmouth, 1 bluegill, 4 rock bass, 5 largemouth, 1 smallie, 2 channel cats, and 4 blue cats. We lost as many bass as we boated. Water temp was around 70. Good times. </font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font>

 

[Lucas]

Heck yeah.

 

[jvincent1]

Great looking catch

 

[drumking]

She texted me that she had a new love now. You ruined her for sure, Michael. Now she will be wanting me to start chasing trashy green fish again. emoBigsmile

Nice PB bass, Candi and a very good meanmouth too. I love top water fishing too. emoBigsmile emoGeezer

 

[Oldman]

smart woman.

 

[Tenncrapie]

Good job guys. Looks like that river parks heatin up. Getting a green fish urge are you sister? They are fun to play with. Good pix thanks for the report

 

[BassERT]

emoThumbsup emoThumbsup

emoCool

 

[Jmax]

Candi, you had better watch out. Those nasty green fish are kind of addictive once you start seeing them hit top water. Jmax

 

[the maddog]

Great job of putting her on the bass,Micheal, but she will never out fish your seasoned veteran Mother. The Crappie Queen is getting very versatile on her fishing...next thing you know I'll see her out there casting into a big school ofwhite bass busting topwater ! emoDance

 

[derek81]

Nice fish!

 

[Randall53]

Dang. Nice trip! Sometimes ya just gotta keep hunting until you find the ones that want to play.

 

[polo-dog]

Great sounding trip Michael and Candi. Very pretty fish. Okay now guys, how many times have we seen someone wearing color like that catch a mess of fish? And, I don't mean Micheal. He almost always wears the same color.

 

[EricM]

emoBigsmile emoBigsmile emoBigsmile

 

[Kingfish]

Good catch and pictures! emoThumbsup

 

[BILL DANTZ]

Good report and pics. Congrats on PB. Thanks for posting.

 

[mdjbro]

Great pictures there, looks to have enjoyed herself. Stir-up the smalllies some please!

 

[redneckfishgeter]

Nice fish emoThumbsup