The job hunt isn't going very well but I'm looking every day. I got a little stressed out the last few days from life in general, so decided to spend a couple of hours down at the lakes looking for bass.
First lake I stopped at, and bass were jumping, but the water was really brown and could not get a bite. I saw them run up to my plastic but turn the last minute (wake gave them away).
Then I see her... Big black shadow in the brown water. I questioned to myself if it was a rock or not but remember when I did that with the Lightning Trout earlier this year and spooked it. I pitched the worm in front of its face, and it moved so I knew it was a bass now! double digit bass ALL DAY LONG! I was about 12' up the bank trying not to spook it and switched o9ut a few plastics to see if I could get her to go. Then I see some "wiggles with eyes" at the surface (about 15-20 of them) wriggling right by her a "WHOOOSH!" She friggin inhaled the entire baby school! I kept trying until I saw her slowly disappear away from the bank out into the big brown yonder.
I decided to leave her be since I know where she is and moved onto the next spot... and next lake.... The bass would give their location up by slamming something at the surface. It looked like tiny baits, so there might have been a spawn. Well, I watched my line go "tick" and then started moving sideways! Fish on!
It actually felt like a much nicer bass but turned out to be half the size that I was expecting. Still nothing to sneeze at, but I was stoked to get the skunk off. Only took 40 minutes to get on the board.
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I moved to about 4 more spots on this puddle and nothing doing.... So I moved to the next puddle.
I got bit instantly, but missed on the hookset. Then another bass guy was coming in hot so I just stayed put.
I moved about 50 feet each way and kept trying for nothing and decided to really get the bait in the weeds. "WHOOSH!" Immediately on with a bigger bass than my last one! It thankfully swam out of the vegetation so gave me a real shot at fighting it. It jumped about 5 times but didn't throw the hook. Got my thumb on him...
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I wanted to leave, but that was one fine adrenaline rush, so I kept pitching baits. About 10 minutes later and I get inhaled again, but this one shot right into the tulies and broke the line... Ouch...
I had to go at this point, but mission accomplished, and I know where I need to go to get that big girl later. Hopefully she stays around for a bit.
A couple nice healthy bass there, I'm sure you can coax that other one soon.