Randy

Congrats - very nice fish....

Jim

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:18:17 -0400, "alwaysfishking"
wrote:

Woke at 5 a.m to 47 degree temps, went back to bed but couldn't sleep, so up
at 6 and off to the store for some coffee. Hit the lake at 7.a.m and
launched to a flat lake, no wind and the sun was starting to shine. I
motored over to the bridge where I have been having some good results
lately. First cast was immediately picked up, I set the hook and the fish
took off, I got it to the boat and it was a decent fish between 2-3 lbs. I
fished for a bit more but no more bites.

I decided to head under the bridge to the other side of the lake to fish
the weeds, before I head under the bridge I noticed a canoe on the other
side with a father and son fishing. They both had some of the biggest wal
mart sal****er rods available, looked like 6/0 hooks with bunchs of
nightcrawlers on them. I asked if they were coming through and the father
says " No, we are doing pretty good here" I asked what they caught and he
told me 2 bass and something with a lot of teeth. He then starts reeling
like a mad man and gets a small bass. As he is getting it in the net I cast
a wacky rig under the bridge. I let it fall and the line went tight, I
thought it had settled down in the rocks there as the line was tight but not
moving. I yanked up hard thinking I could pop it free and then I realized
rocks don't swim as this fish sucked up my wacko and was heading towards
the canoe. It leaped into the air about 5 feet from the canoe and I knew it
was a real good fish. I just hoped my pansy hook set would hold up with the
2/0 octopus hook. Well it did, as a few moments later I had the fish at the
boat and grabbed it by the lips. I didn't have a scale but I figured around
7 lbs. I did have a tape measure with me and decide that would be the next
best thing.. 23 inch length and a 15 inch girth. I couldn't remember the
formula for weight on bass so I found this
website(http://www.bassresource.com/bassfish...alculator.html), not
sure how accurate it is but I would think it was really close. It came up as
a 6.6 lb bass. I noticed the fish had some real weird black spots, not sure
if that's a normal thing or not so I took some pictures. Posted at a,b,p,f