Yesterdays trip :-)

[Fish Chris]

Kind of a weird day. Too windy to seriously sight fish.... could not find any that wanted to eat the Hud (for quite some time) and so I just kind of bounced around and cursed the wind for a few hours.

Finally, I found a long stretch of bank which was fairly wind protected. Saw some nice sized, but spawned out, cruising Smallies, and stuck them on my micro-light with a fly lined crawler. Caught 3 on that stretch, up to 4.0 lbs.

Then I came across a BIG Northern Largmouth. I stopped to check it out, and here comes 2 more ! I'd say they were all between 8 and 10 lbs. Of course I had barged right on top of them, and they were not going to play no matter what I threw at them.

So I bounced all around the lake for 3 more hours. Finally, I sneak back up on the area with those 3 big ones. I kill the gas motor 200 feet down the shore, and get within about 50 feet with the t-motor. I knew right where they had been, by some shore markers. Fired a long cast just past that point, about 12 feet out, and parrellel to the shore. Started my retrieve, and just as the Hud got to my shore marker... Pow ! Fish on ! This thing freaking ripped too ! Ended up being a nice, healthy 9.3 lb'er :-)

So, I took a few photos, weighed, and released it. After that, I had drifted back "away" from my spot. Cool.... there were 3 of them there earlier :-) I t-motor back to the same spot. Fire out another long cast.... reel.... Pow ! Another fish on ! Turns out to be a nice 8.0 lb'er :-) (sorry, didn't bother with photos of that one)

Right before dark I played with a big, spawned out Smallie on a bed. I might have gotten her to go on the Basstrix... But I was running out of light, and resorted to a crawler :-) She fought better on the micro-light anyway, and went 4.4 lbs.

Another fun day on the water :-)

Peace,

Fish

....and a verticle shot of the same fish:

PS, Note the bottom edge of her tail. Obviously she had been on a bed very recently, but I didn't see any beds in the area the three big ones were cruising. Maybe deeper ? Either way, she doesn't look completely spawned out yet, huh ?

SuperMatt and I were recently discussing how rare it is for spawning bass to come up off of a bed to hit a swimbait, but it seems to happen at this lake fairly regularly.

[Bassinfreak2]

Wow! Nice fish!

[Lightninrod]

My Lord!!!  What a day and what great Bass Chris! 8-)

Dan

[Supermat]

Love it! Good job Chris! I'll give you a call back later today, hope you're headed out there to stick them again.

[BadKarma42]

nice fish

[roadwarrior]

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[Turtle.]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! another nice one.You Cali. guys are killin me.I whish i could get to the point where I say:  nice 8.0 lb'er  (sorry, didn't bother with photos of that one)  ::)Awsome,Always enjoy reading your posts and pics. keep'em comming

         Turtle

[deadeye32.]

great job and great fish, you california guys can really make us northern fisherman look bad

[T-rig]

Again, awesome looking fish and great pics! Congrats!

[Gotta Love It]

That is why Chris has his pic on the front page of a fishing publication!  Great fish!

[IneedAnewScreenName9886691]

 My Gosh Man.....you are slowly killing me!!!  

NICE WORK!

[burleytog]

If you keep posting photos like this, I might have to move to California.  

[5bass]

Chris is smokin' the big ones out west.....thanks for posting all the great pics day after day!

[abelfisher]

Nice Fish!!  Which lake was that, Chris?