"John Kerr" wrote in message
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Caught a 4.5 Last Night

Group: rec.outdoors.fishing.bass Date: Thu, Aug 3, 2006, 11:36am (CDT-2)
From: (Bob La Londe)
Nothing special, but I was fishing with a guest.
I showed him a stretch of water early in the afternoon. He said he had
fished it and not caught anything. We picked up two fish in two casts on
senkos at the exact start of where I said the fish were. Then I pulled
out not wanting to burn up productive water for this weekend.
Then we headed into one of my favorite little back water lakes. I told
him we would see small fish around the entrance on one side, and then
nothing until we get out in the deep area of the other side. I told him
we would catch some decent fish dropshotting in the grass beds in about
8 feet of water. He told me that he hated those finesse tactics because
you just caught a bunch of small fish on them. He also complained the
lake was too shallow. My graph read 8.5 feet and the TM is 18" in the
water were I connected with my fourth fish on the little drop shot worm.
A nice fat 3 pounder. Up until that I wasn't setting the hook because I
didn't want to stick any fish. I plan to fish that lake in my next
tournament on the river. I got tired of hearing about finesse baits and
small fish so when I saw that one come out of the grass bed and nail my
worm I decided to boat him.
Then we hit my next little lake and I called the typical action of the
lake all the way around including saying we should pick up 2 or 3
keepers along here in a stretch were we went ahead and stuck three fish
over 2 pounds.
As the sun got close to going down we headed over into a bigger
backwater lake and told my fishing buddy we should nail some fish
working spinner baits and crank baits over some deep grassbeds. He got 8
or 9 bumps and boated a couple while I boat a couple 2+s jerking my
crank into and out of the grass.
Finally we decided to hit a back water channel I like that connects a
couple lakes. My partner piped up again telling me hadn't done well in
that channel in a while. I let him know that its better in the evening
than in the morning. I threw topwater out in front of the boat until it
was to dark for me to judge my casts nailing several bass from the 8" to
2.5 pounds and picked up a 4.5 pounder in a classic spot where a smooth
rock face met some overhanging can and tulies. That popper even produced
a big fat sunfish. He ground a senko down through a lot of those places
and picked a half dozen small fish himself and 2 that just met the
keeper size mark.
I know I sound like I'm bragging, but, well that's because I am. Its
been a long time since I called so many fish exactly on the places and
patterns I thought they should be on.
It was a great evening on the water.
Nothing special. If it was a tournament my best five would have only run
about 12 -13 pounds, but it was fun.
I'll post a pic of the 4.5 (on my scale - most tourney scales weigh
heavier than mine) when I remember to get the camera out of the boat.
--
Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com
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Bob, sounds like a really fun day...also sounds like you know the
"river" pretty good!

I think your tournament results are gonna reflect that fact too! I do
miss the river .

John

I know THOSE tactics on the river pretty good. I keep hearing that most of
the big fish come either 1st thing in the morning on top or flipping in the
main river. I can't seem to get any consistancy with that, but I keep
trying.

You know my invitation is always open to run the river with me for a day. I
know you get out to Ca regularly to spoil the grandson. Let me know in
advance a little and I'll take a day off work to fish with you.


--
Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
Fishing Forums & Contests
http://www.YumaBassMan.com





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