April 14th, 2014. My wife and myself were on our honeymoon and while she had caught a few bass here and there she was totally unprepared for the day we had. I was too! It started out getting to a family pond(17 acres) and seeing a 6ft. swamp snake in the road, she wasn't happy. lol We walked in and my brother had the boat In the water and we were off. I missed a strike right away and didn't care as I thought It was pretty durn cool we were fishing on our honeymoon.
We fished down the bank without anything but great conversation. Tresa made a cast and started talking, and I told here to get the slack out of her line. The minute she took the slack out the line shot sideways and after a short fight I lipped a 2+, a beautiful fish. She caught her personal best 15 minutes In and had we left right then It would have been a great day! We fished for a couple of hours and she was up on me 6-1. I was genuinely thrilled for her to be having a great day.
I finally figured out a little something on a mis-cast and while she Insisted on fishing her way which had been quite successful I went In another direction and things got Interesting. She cast her senko with a Poche tail-spinner(red/shad) right on the bank and set the hook on a chunky 3. That broke her earlier personal best. While she was very happy I was all smiles! I caught a few in the 4-5 lb. range and scolded myself for not bringing enough flukes or boot-tail swimbaits but honestly didn't really care as this was a day that the fish were on and my wife was having FUN!
We had a little time left and I went to a ditch that ran from the bank to about 6 feet out. She cast her senko and slowly reeled It into that ditch and about 3 feet from the bank she set the hook and the fight was on. After a decent fight I lipped a 5+ bass that had inhaled her senko. She once again broke her personal best.
In a nutshell this day was and Is the single best day I've had on the water. The timing and the fact that she caught her biggest fish ever and all on our honeymoon. It simply was a tremendous day!
