What a day!
I played hookey from work last night so I could go fishing this morning. Gonna be working the next who knows how many weekends and I decided to go fish while I could. I'll tell ya I can barely type this thing out from excitement and you all are probably gonna laugh me off the board when you see why. But this morning I couldn't round any of my buddies up to go fishing and decided I was going anyway. My first trip by myself.
Waited til the fog lifted this morning and headed out. I thought I was gonna go bust again at first....cause those first 2-3 hours were fishless. I had two on while fishing a hump that got off...just small fish. Then I remembered reading an article on bass and their movements when it starts getting towards fall and decided to head to some creek mouths. Why not...couldn't hurt me no worse if I didn't catch a fish. LOL. Pulled up on a point that goes out to a creek channel and started crankin' it with a Deep Little N in Firetiger. Caught a chunky keeper largemouth there and probably could have caught more but I was about ready to strangle some pleasure riders who were skiing some 50 yards from me. Back and forth and around and around. Left there and pulled up on a hump that is right beside a creek and caught a few slicks there on a small crank. I was actually content with that. On the way back towards the ramp I stopped at another point I have never fished before and threw out with the big crank. I think it was my third cast I hooked into what I first thought was a big catfish. I fought it and its heavy dive runs it would make when it got close to the boat. Then when I looked over and saw what it was my knees about buckled out from under me. My goal for this year was a 5 pound bass and I'm not sure if this would have went 5 or not but by golly I'm not complaining. But I would appreciate your all's guesses.
I reached down and lipped it in the boat and if you were anywhere within 2 miles of me this afternoon and heard hollerin' and praising the Lord, it was me at that very moment. I don't have scales or a measuring board in the boat. I took several pictures of the fish (thanks to the self timer) and a small video on my camera. All I can tell you is that it was a really good late birthday present. I didn't have the scales to verify but I'm just gonna say it is my biggest largemouth to date and definatly my best crankbait fish. The neat thing about this is my mom and dad gave me some cash to get my own birthday present and what did I buy? Some cranks of course. LOL. This was on one of those that I got just yesterday with that money. I was pumped up. I turned it back loose after getting a quick goodbye kiss and after that I couldn't fish worth a flip. I kept going back to the camera and looking at the pics. I did manage one more chuncky keeper on the crank on that same point but after that I had to go show somebody those pictures. So here I am. LOL.
I played hookey from work last night so I could go fishing this morning. Gonna be working the next who knows how many weekends and I decided to go fish while I could. I'll tell ya I can barely type this thing out from excitement and you all are probably gonna laugh me off the board when you see why. But this morning I couldn't round any of my buddies up to go fishing and decided I was going anyway. My first trip by myself.
Waited til the fog lifted this morning and headed out. I thought I was gonna go bust again at first....cause those first 2-3 hours were fishless. I had two on while fishing a hump that got off...just small fish. Then I remembered reading an article on bass and their movements when it starts getting towards fall and decided to head to some creek mouths. Why not...couldn't hurt me no worse if I didn't catch a fish. LOL. Pulled up on a point that goes out to a creek channel and started crankin' it with a Deep Little N in Firetiger. Caught a chunky keeper largemouth there and probably could have caught more but I was about ready to strangle some pleasure riders who were skiing some 50 yards from me. Back and forth and around and around. Left there and pulled up on a hump that is right beside a creek and caught a few slicks there on a small crank. I was actually content with that. On the way back towards the ramp I stopped at another point I have never fished before and threw out with the big crank. I think it was my third cast I hooked into what I first thought was a big catfish. I fought it and its heavy dive runs it would make when it got close to the boat. Then when I looked over and saw what it was my knees about buckled out from under me. My goal for this year was a 5 pound bass and I'm not sure if this would have went 5 or not but by golly I'm not complaining. But I would appreciate your all's guesses.
I reached down and lipped it in the boat and if you were anywhere within 2 miles of me this afternoon and heard hollerin' and praising the Lord, it was me at that very moment. I don't have scales or a measuring board in the boat. I took several pictures of the fish (thanks to the self timer) and a small video on my camera. All I can tell you is that it was a really good late birthday present. I didn't have the scales to verify but I'm just gonna say it is my biggest largemouth to date and definatly my best crankbait fish. The neat thing about this is my mom and dad gave me some cash to get my own birthday present and what did I buy? Some cranks of course. LOL. This was on one of those that I got just yesterday with that money. I was pumped up. I turned it back loose after getting a quick goodbye kiss and after that I couldn't fish worth a flip. I kept going back to the camera and looking at the pics. I did manage one more chuncky keeper on the crank on that same point but after that I had to go show somebody those pictures. So here I am. LOL.
