Caught a 4.5 Last Night

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.


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Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com