My name is Jay; I'm 19 years old and I'm from Castle Rock, Colorado. Castle Rock sadly doesn't have any fisheries, but there are near by towns that do. I've started fishing when I was 4 years old. My dad and my grandparents got me addicted to it. In the spring through fall I mainly fish for trout, but when the time is right in the summer I try to go after bass. My favorite method for bass fishing has to be topwater fishing. For me I always love the explosive action on the surface. But i'm always eager to learn new methods and ways to fish for bass. My dad got me hooked on bass fishing two summers ago, where we found two ponds with my uncle. The day before we fished at Quincey Reservoir and caught a few nice size large mouths on plastic worms (wacky rigged) and on Rebel Pop- Rs. The pond produced some monster Large Mouths and trophy sized Small Mouth. I've bass fished in Wisconsin and South Dakota before. In Wisconsin, I fished the Eagle river where my great grand father worked for the logging industry in the 1920's. I caught a Small Mouth that my dad, my grandpa, and I were convinced it was the state record. Where we were at, we were too far away from the Division of wildlife and any tackle store. We didn't have a scale or tape measure to record it. The only thing that we had was a camera on my dad's phone, sadly the phone fell into a river a year later. But what I've noticed about the bass in those two sates compared to the ones in Colorado, is that the ones in Colorado are finicky. They are more challenging then the ones out east. The photo attached is one of the bass I caught two summers ago.
