Fireguyfrank58 Posted June 15, 2013 Posted June 15, 2013 Caught my PB Largemouth today about 3 hours ago. Thanks to all the guys who give such great advice on these forums. Little tweaks of equipment and presentation can really pay off! No scale but felt like an easy 5+. Quote
Super User deep Posted June 15, 2013 Super User Posted June 15, 2013 Congrats. That is a good-looking bass you caught. Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted June 15, 2013 Super User Posted June 15, 2013 Congrats on your PB! Jeff Quote
Super User AK-Jax86 Posted June 15, 2013 Super User Posted June 15, 2013 Congrats on your new PB nice fish What did you catch it on? Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted June 16, 2013 Global Moderator Posted June 16, 2013 Congrats on the new PB! Lets hear the story on what and how you caught her! I'd say you right in the ballpark guessing 5 pounds. Quote
Fireguyfrank58 Posted June 16, 2013 Author Posted June 16, 2013 Sorry it took me a while to reply. The story was my wife and I went with our kids to the lake for some bank fishing in the late evening around 6pm. I had bought several new kinds of finesse worms and trick worms and wanted to see if I could do any good with them. My first cast I threw a motor oil color power worm and go one heck of a bite. Set the hook and the next thing I know the weight and hook are flying out of the water right back at my face! I moved quickly and the weight missed me but smacked my rod dead center and proceeded to wrap and twist and knot up in a nice mess. I looked at the hooks and 3/4 of the worm was gone! bitten clean in half. Not 10 seconds later my wife yells out, I got one! She is wacky worming a Senko with a 2/0 circle hook. I put my mess down and its a nice 3lb fish! The biggest she had caught. So I laugh and tell her that I bet if I could look in the belly of that fish the resy of my worm would be in it since we were fishing right next to eachother. So she is all smiles and we take pictures and release her PB. After about 5-10 min of trying to get my mess of braided line straighted out I finally give up and cut it. I put another worm on and fish for 20-30 more casts and nothing. I have caught alot of fish at that spot on baby brush hogs so I figure to catch up to my wife I would put the old trusty on. Fist cast and a little buck 1.5lb bass nails it. So I tell her, well I guess I'll keep using my go to since the very first cast I get one. I adjust it back on the hook and try and cast one way too hard and far and bird nest my reel. It cast out 20ft or so and for a second I think to myself, I'll just pull it out and make another cast. The I remember something my dad always said. No matter what fish it out, you can catch fish on the worst cast sometimes. So the birds nest didn't stop me from reeling in so I play it and on the 3rd drop, text book hits. I dunno how I did it but It was one of the hardest fastest hooksets I have ever made and it was SOLID! I felt pretty good weight on my reel and he played out a little but I didnt really know how big he was till I got him to shore. My wife didnt see it but I told her, honey you gotta look at this, she said wait a minute i'm fishing, I said no baby you really gotta see this! She did and it blew her mind. She took the pictures for me and we released him for another angler. The rest of the weekend we just kept saying, What about that fish huh? We went to the Bass Pro shops and my kids kept looking at all the mounts going, that looks like dady's fish! My setup was a 7'3 MH Abu Garcia Veritas baitcaster with 30lb Spiderwire stealth 3/0 Owner EWG with a watermelon seed Baby Brushhog Shimano Bantam Citica 100 Quote
Super User Tuckahoe Joe Posted June 20, 2013 Super User Posted June 20, 2013 That's a nice one...congrats! Quote
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