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You will. This Spring! And thanks!

Thanks a lot, guys!

Caught this 7.6 lb monster this evening just after sunset. From the bank, in heavy pads, on a SK Baby Rodent. Struck only 10 feet from where I stood, muscled her almost straight up vertically out of the weeds, and she splashed water all over the place. I've been bassing consistently for only about a year, and this is I think the third largest LMB I've ever nailed, so I feel compelled to share my glory! Glad my friend Larry was there to snap the photo on my phone.

That for me is the beauty of bass fishing, an hour of tossing a bait in a local pond or canal after work and maybe you've got a couple of nice ones, and then you're done, and not covered with salt or sand. And you've tossed 'em back so no fish to clean. Most of my friends and neighbors don't get it at all. They probably think I sit in a folding chair and catch bony little bream for dinner. Someone asked me yesterday if I read a book while I'm fishing. I told her how bass fishing is all action, thrill of the hunt and so forth, advanced art and science, advanced techniques, always learning new strategies. She thought I was being sarcastic.