My local lake has been a big disappointment this summer, I still went up there nonetheless. It's not a big lake, or is deep, and pickerel outnumber the bass
It was getting late in the day, to the point where I didn't feel like going out. The rivers are still mucked up since the Irene flooding so the local lake is the only place closest to us. My wife and I spent a good half-hour throwing soft plastics around till we stopped on one of the piers and I decided to try something different, I was thinking one of my spinners, but chose a crankbait. Good idea on my part, 2nd cast out something tugged back, felt heavy (for that lake, atleast), turned out to be a LMB, surprisingly. Best part it's my personal best bass since fishing for little over a year now. Figure I reached my 3rd goal this year, time to make new ones
22", 5lb 2oz (cheapo berkley scale)
Of course I get the "I've seen bigger here" from someone, funny thing is it's the same talk I always here up there, though many barely catch anything.