The best morning we've ever had.

[MattStrykul]

Yesterday (12/3) my brother and I were fishing our cove on lake gaston, and it was a morning that we have never experienced. The water was 54 degrees, and the sky was cloudy. It was about 45-50 degrees out and clear water with visability of about 6 feet.To start this off, I'll tell you what happend to me. We were going to go to the end of our cove, and we only have a jon boat with a trolling motor, so I was trolling a chrome/blue shad. We trolled down half of the cove on the high speed, then switched it to the low because we were looking for humps where we thought the fish would be holding so I start reeling in. I saw my line jolt left as fast as I have ever seen it and the fight began. This fish was pullin drag so much I thought it was gonna spool me. My brother drove the boat toward it thankfully otherwise I would have lost it. It ran all the way across the cove about 200-300 feet and it was still fighting strong. I had no traction on this fish at all. Everytime I would start reelin it up keeping pressure on it, it would just take 2 times the amount of drag out. The fish got really close to the boat 1 time and dove under, and I saved it. The it took some drag out, then started going back the other direction, then jolted back toward the boat again and dove under and the lure popped out of its mouth.  :-[ I hate that feeling when you lose a fish, but I never even got to see this fish. The fight was probably 3-4 minutes and I was so dissapointed with myself I felt sick. Well, after that dissapointment we went down the cove and started fishing the humps. It was one of the most productive days we have ever had. My brother caught 8 and I caught 3 within an hour and a half. We found the big bass traveling in pods chasing shad around, that is when my brother got a 4.5 pound large mouth. We caught 3 more fish in these pods and I caught a 4.2 pound bass. All of the others were nice, but only about 1-2 pounds. Concidering we really started fishing in april, we have really learned alot more about fishing.

Thanks for your time.

matt

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Bigger fish chasing shad in the coves, classic fall pattern.  You guys stumbled on some gold.  As long as temps remain where they are, that bite should duplicate itself again tomorrow.

[MattStrykul]

sweet. Its too bad we are going back down in 2 weeks. It makes alot of sense too because my brother and I were catching shad in a thrownet for fishing on the docks at like 3 oclock. They were around huge grass patches. Seeing the pods was pretty sweet, we always caught a big one in them.

thanks L.B.H.

Matt

also here are some pics (don't flip out, I took off my life jacket for the pic really quick, and my brothers was taken a foot from our dock.  ;D)

http://www.fishlakegaston.com/v2pics/displayimage.php?album=13&pos=30

http://www.fishlakegaston.com/v2pics/displayimage.php?album=13&pos=29

http://www.fishlakegaston.com/v2pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=-13&pos=0

http://www.fishlakegaston.com/v2pics/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=-13&pos=4

[NEBassMan]

Sounds like a great day!!

Pics won't work because you have to be Registered to see them.  Can you host them somewhere else?

Jason

[MattStrykul]

Yeah, sorry I didn't know you had to be registered. Here they are.

[Lightninrod]

Dangitboy but those are some nice, big BASS!!!  Way to figure them out.  Y'all are quick learners Matt.

Dan

[MattStrykul]

thank you lightninrod!

[New 2 Bass]

Whoa!  Nice fish.  Those are big, indeed.

[Guest avid]

Whoa baby!!!

Y'all some yourself some chunky little moma's there.

Way 2 Go.

Chilly out there eh?

[MattStrykul]

yeah it was a bit cold.

[VekolBass]

Great looking fish!!

[Cigarlover 1]

Those are some fat fish.   Nice job!

[MattStrykul]

thanks alot guys. We are both itchin to get back down. I will post pictures of some fish we caught over the summer later on in a different post, just thought I might let you all know.

~ Matt

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Keep it up...cold months are here, take every opportunity you get!!!