Went with Jared to his pond. We were greeted by bass blowing up on fry at the start. Nice! Jared farmed one on the third cast with a dropshot. We headed back to our cars to grab more reaction type lures as we were fully expecting a slow dropshot kind of day. Came back throwing a KM while he threw topwater. Did not get bit. Moved on.
Jared went back to the dropshot and hooked up to something that was making some weird figure 8s at the start of the fight. He figured carp. I put my rod down and got ready to play deckhand. Then he gets a look at it. BIG cat He plays it on 6# for about 5 minutes and then I lip it with pliers. 15.5# and 30" long. His new PB cat.
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Got done playing with it and I immediately broke off on a bite at my leader knot. Re-rigged and caught the damn thing shortly after.
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More of our coworkers started arriving and Kevin got those surface feeders to commit to his dropshot, going 4/5 before he finally caught up to us. Fish here and fish there for out crew of...too many...6? Good company certainly but it was starting to look like a fish-off. Plenty of space though.
We circled back to the surface feeders and I finally got one to commit to the KM.
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After impaling about 5 more baby bass fry with my trebles...I took off for home.
BB (baby bass)the Impaler! ;D
That's a hell of a cat! Bravo on the 6#!
Word on the street is most of the San Diego lakes are going off right now, Bass are on the chew ;)
Congrats on a fun day!! 8)