Small lure, big fish

[Pointer 78]

Caught this beauty on a junebug Zoom Dead Ringer this past Saturday Night. Fishing without a scale but I estimate the weight at a little over 5lbs. I've caught a lot of good keepers over the years with this lure including a 6.1 lb smallmouth.

 

[Pointer 78]

Oops.....I'll get this right.

 

[Pointer 78]

Having trouble compressing picture to 100 K

 

[DHaun]

Pointer 78, Here's some info that might help:

http://www.ChattanoogaFishingForum.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=44&posts=2#M164

 

[RangerRob]

Where you been hiding Pointer? I haven't seen any posts from you on BFHP in quite a while. Like I can talk! I've had a few good days / patterns worth mentioning and have just dropped the ball on posting them. Nice to see you are alive and kicking...

 

[Pointer 78]

Let's see if this worked.

 

[Pointer 78]

OK.........

 

[Pointer 78]

And yes, she was released within a minute of being taken out of the water. I always have my camera out and ready. A big thanks to DHaun for the info on the imaging website. That did the trick.



RangerBob...I mostly lurk on BFHP but I stay involved. I'll be fishing the Rally @ Guntersville on Oct 1-2

 

[polo-dog]

Nice hog there Pointer. What pattern did you catch her on?

 

[Pointer 78]

Fishing stumps in 5-7 ft. I was swimming the Dead Ringer sloooowly across the bottom. Funny thing, junebug produces much better for me at night than it does in the daytime.

 

[polo-dog]

Was she on the Chick? Lower, middle or upper lake? It seems to me that I have always read and it always seems true that dark colored baits work best for night fishing. June bug is pretty dark in most of the soft plastics lines that I've seen. Do you think it out produces black or other dark colors for you?

 

[Pointer 78]

Funny thing.....I can throw a lizard or a 6" worm in the junebug color at night, and it's never been very productive for me. But a junebug Zoom Dead Ringer has produced for me for years. If I'm fishing a standard worm at night, nothing seems to work better than a red shad Berkley Power Worm. My regular fishing partner swears by a pumpkinseed Power Worm and it does seem to produce for him. Unfortunately, he's always out and he borrows mine. Another good color at night in the Dead Ringer is black with a chartreuse tail. I launch out of Harrison Bay and I try to fish it the last hour or so before I put the boat back on the trailer. That's where this fish came from. Tight lines.

 

[polo-dog]

I think that I have an idea of the stumpbeds that you are talking about. Last time or two I was out I passed through there during the day and marked absolutely nothing in the area and so didn't fish the areas. It was during the day and it could be that the bait and bass moved into the shallow stumps in the night time. There are some really awesome stumpbeds out in the HB State park area. Thanks for the info. I hope that you start getting more big bites like that. Maybe then I will too.