basspro48 Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 This weekend will be 2 days that I will remember for a while... I fished a club tourney on Lake toano (aka little creek res.) in James city county and placed 3rd, which qualified me for the 6-man shootout on Lake Chesdin next weekend. I had one fish that went about 3.25lbs, which was actually pretty good considering the lake is a very tough fishery normally and it was down 6ft with crystal clear water. I had enough bites to win but I could not hookup, early in the morning I stopped at a main lake point and started fishing the channel swing when fish came up schooling, I threw my LC sammy 100 in the middle of it and it was instantly blown out of the water by a violent strike...I missed him. I was a little ticked to say the least, but then my partner caught the fattest 14" fish I have ever seen in my life (the dang thing had to be 2+lbs ) so that cheered me up a little bit, until they came up schooling again. I hurled my sammy to em again, and yet again it was blasted out of the water by one of the most explosive strikes I have ever seen, I waited a second, set the hook, saw a huge flash of green, and almost caught a sammy in the face...By now I was ready to break my rod in half, not only have I missed 2 fish already but they were GIANTS. Well, about 10 minutes later Triton9 comes by in his boat and I yell over to him about the schooling fish, so he gets the great idea to come over there with me and catches his first keeper not 30 yards away... > > > >...that ^*%$%... haha just kiddin about that, I don't mind people cutting me off and stealing my fish ;D After T9's catches his fish they start schooling again, so yet again I throw my sammy over there and half way back to the boat I see a wake, not a normal fish wake, but a huge extremely ticked off bass aiming to kill my poor sammy wake...what happened next can only be described as if a bomb went off under my bait, the sammy was blown about a foot out of the water and when it came back down the fish crushed it with another one of the most violent strikes I have ever seen. I set the hook and the fish took about 20 yards of drag in about 5 seconds and then came unbuttoned... After the 3rd time I was screaming and yelling and cursing...but after about 3 hours I calmed down and managed to miss 2 more nice fish before catching my keeper. It was a good experience though, and the best part is after the tourney I went over to a good friend's house on the upper James and put the hurtin on some nice brown bass...Today I woke up at 4:30 again and went to Lake Chesdin with T9 for a little practice and found some very good info and spots for the tournament next sunday, so I guess I had a pretty dang good weekend Sorry about the extremely long post guys, I guess I just like fishing a lot : here's my keeper, hit a 3/8oz double willow war eagle spinnerbait Quote
Super User Catt Posted September 23, 2007 Super User Posted September 23, 2007 Schoolie bite will drive you nuts Quote
Lightninrod Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Fine fish young man! You'll get that bigger one that blew up on your Sammy sooner or later. 8-) Dan Quote
deepsessions Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 those missed fish BURN! I can't count how many giants I've lost this year...sounds like you still had a good weekend...nice report Quote
Super User Jimzee Posted September 24, 2007 Super User Posted September 24, 2007 Congrats on the tourney!! Nice fish and picture quality. I love the color of that water. Quote
basspro48 Posted September 24, 2007 Author Posted September 24, 2007 Congrats on the tourney!! Nice fish and picture quality. I love the color of that water. Thanks guys, and I love fishing that kinda water too, clear with a green tint to it oh yeah Quote
Low_Budget_Hooker Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 my kind of water!! Follow that sammy with a super fluke!!! Also, just because they aren't up top, doesn't mean they aren't there and aren't feeding hard. Get deeper into that school when they are submerged, cranks, husky jerks, weighted Flukes, etc Quote
Guest btlva Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 Nice job man sounds like a great weekend! The last bite sounds alot like a striper attack, they like to stun a fish then come back and get it, and they always runnnnnnnnnnnn! Quote
basspro48 Posted September 25, 2007 Author Posted September 25, 2007 Nice job man sounds like a great weekend! The last bite sounds alot like a striper attack, they like to stun a fish then come back and get it, and they always runnnnnnnnnnnn! That's what I thought when I first saw them schooling but when I got closer we could see they were Largemouth, big LM at that. Quote
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