SouthMiamiBassMan Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 Hey everyone I hope your day was good as mine. I just came up from fishing with my buddy Eric and we were at since 6:30 am. We were using live shiners but caught nothing until 8am when began using live cichlids and bluegills instead. That's when the bass came in! In total Eric caught 6 nice bass 3- 4lbs and his two PB seen below. http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l41/GOLAND/DSCF0005.jpg http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l41/GOLAND/DSCF0006.jpg I caught a about three 3lbs and my second place PB on a dead blue gill just before I packed it to leave. I saw her swimming by and dropped it in right in front her. What a beauty and a hell of a fight! http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l41/GOLAND/DSCF0007.jpg Quote
Fisherman Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Nice bass. Did you guys try any plastics/hard baits while you were out? Quote
Super User roadwarrior Posted July 10, 2007 Super User Posted July 10, 2007 Fine bass and nice pics, too! Quote
SouthMiamiBassMan Posted July 11, 2007 Author Posted July 11, 2007 Nice bass. Did you guys try any plastics/hard baits while you were out? Yeah we tried worms, crankbaits, a couple of topwaters, and some spinner baits. We only got a couple of nibbles on the worms though, nothing else. There are a lot of Blue Gills and Mayan Cichlids in my lake that stay close to the shore. That is all they want and always go for. The big Bass (about 2-4 lbs each) just cruise around the lake in a school of 3 to 6 (like a pack of wolves) hunting the smaller fish. When they find a school close enough to the shore, they cut the smaller fish off from getting into deeper water and one or two of them just chase them up the bank and into the grass were they swallow them up. It's very cool to watch them do that. It's kind of like the way killer whales chase sea lions up a beach to eat them. The one I caught was doing the same but by herself. I heard the splashing of her chasing something up the bank and threw my blue gill about 5 ft away from her. The splash, scent, and sun shining of the side of the blue must have caught her attention. She turned around, locked in, and gulped it down. It was a good fight (3 jumps) but I reeled her to shore ASAP before she could loosen the hook which was barley on the inner lower lip. If I would have given her any slack I would have lost her for sure. Luckily my friend saw me before he left and ran back over to take the picture. She had a belly full of eggs so I put her back as soon as possible so that she pass those big, beautiful genes on to another generation. ;D Quote
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