davisjeremy1981, Chickamauga, bass, 11/19/17, flyman

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This one is a couple days late. Sorry guys just remembered I hadn't put the report up. Got out sunday with flyman and we had a blast and caught some quality keepers and one nice one. We started the morning out on the drops around the islands at Harrison bay before deciding to head into wolftever to get out of the winds (surprise suprise the weather man dropped the ball again). Anyway we fished some points and flipped some docks but that only produced a couple slicks and one fat keeper so flyman suggested we go hit a super shallow flat and it didn't take too long before flyman got our first hook up. To bad it was about a 6ft long sick. Little while later I put another keeper in the boat on a spinnerbait, flyman had caught another 2 or 3 sticks. He made a little change and started throwing a red trap and caught one or two before I finally switched over myself. Shortly after that flyman makes a cast turns the handle about 4 times and bang rod loads up. Hes cranking and cranking and the rod tip is dancing like hes got a good one doing a lot of head shaking so I grab the net and get ready and up comes the biggest catch of the day so far...about an 8ft stick lol. But we stuck with the shallow pattern and went even shallower. We finally pulled up on a long super shallow flat loaded with stumps with a deep narrow ditch on the outside bend of the creek. I caught several keepers all were nice healthy looking fish with fat bellies, even caught one on flyman's rod while checking out a new reel he wanted me to try. We followed that ditch until we ran out of water, I think at one point the boat was sitting in 8in of water at the most, but the shallower we got the more activity and bait we saw. Even managed to snag a couple of 6-8in gizzard shad and one golden shiner up that shallow. So we start making our way back out working the flat over again and catching a couple more when I made a cast and got slammed almost as soon as the bait hit the water, talking less than 6in deep. I set the hook, rod loads up double but nothing moves. Flyman asks "are you hung" and about that time we both saw the huge mud cloud this fish kicked up and the fight was on. After about a min and a half of bulldogging and head shaking flyman gets her in the net and my jaw just fell open. This fish was in the 6-8lb range (scales weren't working) and fat as she could be. Great way to cap off a great day of fishing with a great guy to fish with. <br /><br /><br /><br />