Day started off on the wrong foot. Left my rod at home. When I left work, I nearly forgot my bait.
Made the trip home and joined my family at our local spot for dinner and to toast the memory of a family friend.
Got to the beach and saw fairly clean water and much smaller surf than expected. Tom joined me and we got set up.
Well, in three casts I lost two rigs, a problem compounded by leaving my headlight in the car.
As I re rigged repeatedly, Tom was getting some pretty good bites but nothing stuck.
My rod was silent do I kept moving around until I settled down in a decent spot.
I finally got a few bites, and one finally stuck.
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Bites kept coming but it was getting late. We decided to call it a night.
As I rinsed my knife and cutting board I get bit. Throw my stuff to the ground and its on.
Lots of fun surface thrashing results in this guy.
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68 inches. Not big, but fun.
At least pros our weighed the cons Steve! I wish I knew of a place up here that had big bass like that!
Sounds like the 7 fought really well too :)
Also, those are great pics! I need to get a real camera to take with me...
Was it less weedy than Saturday? Different locale right?
Jim
Those pics came from Tom's new phone. Pretty darn nice.
I was enjoying the conditions weed wise after the last few trips. Funny how quickly they move in and out of a zone.
That's a cute one! Much better than the 2 GIANT hold-fasts I caught. I also lost 2 rigs :(
Not the biggest but that's still cool.
I'm sure you went home happy.
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It just looks small because Squatch is standing beside it!
You guys are getting 'er done, congrats...........V
So, that bass was 68"? I would say it was a goodnight fishing considering the obstacles you faced.
Good fishing. Could have been great if I could have got one of my bigger hits hooked up long enough to Beach.
Glad the high confidence rig worked out for you.
Wow Steve, That is a hog Bass!! Congrats! You had a rough go at first, that ended nicely!! 8)
Beautiful lunker bass and smaller 7! :D
Nice job Steve! We are certainly racking up the sharks so far this year. We went out last night and nabbed 2, 81" and 83".
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