19 Inch Beauty on 2 Inch Senko

[Sam]

Fished a client's pond in Maryland today and must have caught at least 40 largemouth bass.

They hit everything I threw except for the spinnerbait.

I have some two (2) inch Smoke with Black Flake Senkos so I put one on a #1 hook (not a 1/0; but a #1 gold hook) to try to catch the little buggers who were driving me nuts hitting the Zoom finessse worms.  Must have been Bluegills or small bream.

I put a small PSS-3/0 removable slip shot sinker about a foot above the hook; rigged the two-inch Senko Texas style on my 14 pound AN-40 line on my spinner rig and threw it out.  

As I was reeling it back in (it went only 10 feet into the water) approaching the bank where I was standing the line took off so I set the hook.

She was 19 inches long and just beautiful.

I had to go through her gills to get the hook out as she inhaled the Senko.

I also had to sit down for a few minutes to get my breath back.

What a sight.  That big mouth; those big black eyes; all that water splashing around; and me knowing that I had her on a #1 gold hook with a two-inch Senko as bait.

(You have to order the 2-inch Senkos driect from GY via his web site.)

It just doesn't get better than that!

[Lightninrod]

Sam:  Great story!  You have a way with words. 8-)

Dan

[Guest dabnis]

I remember towards the end of May I made my way down to the park where I fish cause I knew they'd open earlier than usual due to a marathon that went by the park. They have a lot places in this park where they DON'T want people fishing and they stay on you about it. On this particular morning the park was opened way earlier due to the run and NOBODY WAS THERE in regards to the public. I made my way over to a spot where they don't let people fish and began tossing out a 2/3 ounce silver Krocadile spoon. I'd never really used em before but I started slinging this thing out in the water and just about every time I pulled back a largemouth. Most where 14, 15 and 16 inchers. Bout an hour into it I got a strike on that spoon that made my heart skip cause it was hard and fast. I fought with the beast for a couple of minutes and when I pulled it up on shore, BAM!, 19 inch Largemouth. Biggest fish I'd ever caught out of this body of water. So here I am with this beautiful bass and I don't have a camera or anybody fishing with me. I could'nt just put it back in without a witness so I threw some water in my cooler, dropped big boy in and proceeded to walk around that park until I found a couple of park workers. I showed it off and one of workers told me that it was the biggest one he'd seen come out of that body of water yet. Well, bass season was'nt in yet so I had to take that beauty back to the water and release him.

It feels good, don't it? There's nothing like bass fishing. Keep fishing em. If you throw it in the water, they will come...