08-01-2007, 11:10 PM
Let me begin this fishing report by saying this has been my wife and my best bass season ever.
Because it has been a while and i have a lot to report and i don't have the time to go through it all, I will just go through the highlites.
last year early post-spawn my wife and I caught 14 bass in 6 hrs, with an average weight of 1.2 pounds. This year we get out on the lake one morning (our favourite secret lake) and I choose a patch of lillies growing in 4' of water as my battle ground, armed with Terminator spinner baits, shad skirts and twin silver willow blades. Water visibility was about three feet. The wifey was right behind me fishing the same pattern.
After a few dozen rips through the 'pads, a a hog picked a fight with me which i promptly lost when he leapt for the sky and tossed my spinnerbait.
I ripped a few more but without result.
No sooner had wifey's spinnerbait hit the water and she had fish-on. She lipped a nice 3lb pig before releasing him on his way. on her VERY NEXT cast - low! Another pig!!
An hour later she had a tally of three to my nada. i was beginning to wonder if I was going to get bass-skunked. However, I figured I had the basic pattern figured, it just needed a tweaking. A junebug salamander as a trailer seemed a good choice and thank the fish gods, it was. Within 3 hrs I had taken 8 bass.
Wifey's hawg luck had turned to stone and sunk on her, so she geared up for pan fish - which she promptly began nailing with almost every cast. Crappie, sunnies, perch and pickerel all fell victim to her small in-line spinner.
When she saw how the bass were literally fighting to get onto my spinner, she rigged one rod back to hawg gear with a set-up similar to mine and wam! wam!
My arms were so tired from all the pitching and casting, I decided to rest and let the breeze blow me back toward the put-in.
We evn got tired of taking photos.
Nicole was also getting tired, but i urged her to continue in the hopes of breaking our bass-catch record.
Within another hour we had broken the record by two - sixteen bass in about 7 hours.
We were almost back at the put-in when I noticed the merging of three types of aquatic plants close to the bank where I knew it dropped suddenly from 2' of water to 5'. i had taken bass there before, so i figured i'd have one last toss and pow! the biggest bass of the day. A spawned-out female at 5lb 2oz, 21" long.
So the final tally was 17 pigs and the weight average was 2lb 4oz.
But the best for last. This was the year I got my biggest bass ever, and probably the biggest i will get for a long time to come - 13lb 1oz!! Yeah babyyy!!!
It was only one of two i got about five weekends ago.
Man-o-man ... what a season! And it ain't over.[cool]
Nicole's sunny.
Ain't he cute?
Piglett came to say hi.
nice hawg
Last and biggest Hawg of the day.
And finally, my NESSIE[cool]
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Because it has been a while and i have a lot to report and i don't have the time to go through it all, I will just go through the highlites.
last year early post-spawn my wife and I caught 14 bass in 6 hrs, with an average weight of 1.2 pounds. This year we get out on the lake one morning (our favourite secret lake) and I choose a patch of lillies growing in 4' of water as my battle ground, armed with Terminator spinner baits, shad skirts and twin silver willow blades. Water visibility was about three feet. The wifey was right behind me fishing the same pattern.
After a few dozen rips through the 'pads, a a hog picked a fight with me which i promptly lost when he leapt for the sky and tossed my spinnerbait.
I ripped a few more but without result.
No sooner had wifey's spinnerbait hit the water and she had fish-on. She lipped a nice 3lb pig before releasing him on his way. on her VERY NEXT cast - low! Another pig!!
An hour later she had a tally of three to my nada. i was beginning to wonder if I was going to get bass-skunked. However, I figured I had the basic pattern figured, it just needed a tweaking. A junebug salamander as a trailer seemed a good choice and thank the fish gods, it was. Within 3 hrs I had taken 8 bass.
Wifey's hawg luck had turned to stone and sunk on her, so she geared up for pan fish - which she promptly began nailing with almost every cast. Crappie, sunnies, perch and pickerel all fell victim to her small in-line spinner.
When she saw how the bass were literally fighting to get onto my spinner, she rigged one rod back to hawg gear with a set-up similar to mine and wam! wam!
My arms were so tired from all the pitching and casting, I decided to rest and let the breeze blow me back toward the put-in.
We evn got tired of taking photos.
Nicole was also getting tired, but i urged her to continue in the hopes of breaking our bass-catch record.
Within another hour we had broken the record by two - sixteen bass in about 7 hours.
We were almost back at the put-in when I noticed the merging of three types of aquatic plants close to the bank where I knew it dropped suddenly from 2' of water to 5'. i had taken bass there before, so i figured i'd have one last toss and pow! the biggest bass of the day. A spawned-out female at 5lb 2oz, 21" long.
So the final tally was 17 pigs and the weight average was 2lb 4oz.
But the best for last. This was the year I got my biggest bass ever, and probably the biggest i will get for a long time to come - 13lb 1oz!! Yeah babyyy!!!
It was only one of two i got about five weekends ago.
Man-o-man ... what a season! And it ain't over.[cool]
Nicole's sunny.
Ain't he cute?
Piglett came to say hi.
nice hawg
Last and biggest Hawg of the day.
And finally, my NESSIE[cool]
[signature]