09-09-2019, 09:00 AM
I’ll start out my saying thanks to Dad for telling me to stick it out on this one - because at 11:30, I was ready to put her on the trailer. I know that’s weak, but up to that point we had tried multiple patterns in areas that we are CONFIDENT in and only 2 bites. At this point, I waste about 30 minutes idling around and Dad says, let’s go fish a drain we caught a good one in last year. So we did. I set the boat up downstream, and shortly after, he says I got one workin’ me, I see the line straightening up, he sets the hook and a good fish jumps out of 15 FOW almost immediately, He then works the fish to the boat from a long cast and I slip the net under it. Then I say well, I guess we are staying lol. We stay on that pattern for the rest of the time we got left, about an hour or so and I get a twin to his fish on my trusty jig. Funny thing was, both of those fish were what we call “lone rangersâ€. No others to go along with them.<br /><br />Another funny thing is, we had a total of 5 bites all day long; boated only 2 fish, and a 4&#43; pounder with our other 2 fish would have won the derby. Crazy man. <br /><br />Congrats to everybody on catching some bass and those that won some $ on a dreaded September day. <br /><br />Thanks to the guys that do all the work to put these things on too.