not bad after all

[.dsaavedra.]

well first i must say I ENDED MY 1 MONTH 1 DAY SKUNK STREAK!!!

thats right, last time i caught a fish was august 12.

anyway, went down to st. mary's lake this evening.

first order of business was to test my new 4pc. lipless swimbait. it is probably the best swimmer i've ever made! it swims in such a fluid motion, looks just like a snake. only problem is that i have to reel pretty fast before it starts to swim.

so that was a success, but the fishing was terribly slow. we went about 1 hr 45 min without a single fish.

i caught the first fish when we pulled into a shallow grassy cove. i was showing my dad which bag the  bush bugs were in and i wasnt paying attention to my trick stick which was in the water. after he found the bush bugs, i reeled up some slack to find a pleasant suprise on the other end

unfortunatley, it was gut hooked cuz i wasnt paying attention so he swalowed it.

it was difficult to do the "thru-the-gills" manuever on this bass because it was so tiny (about 9") that i couldnt really turn the hook around in his mouth. i did get the hook out though, and the bass floated  :-/ but about 5 min later he splashed real hard and disappeared, so i dont know what exactly his fate was...

didnt get a picture of it...

then it was about another 30-40 min without the slightest bit of action.

we went up a creek past some stumps and i caught this little guy on a DT-10. Dad made me laugh just before he took the picture  :

that one measured 12"

about 10 minutes after that, my dad hooked this nice keeper (14") on a white/red spinnerbait:

very shortly after that, i was casting parallel with the shoreline, and i had the DT-10 right by the boat, reeling up to make another cast when something absolutley HAMMERED IT!

it was a solid hookset too. felt like a huge bass. it went straight for the bottom under the boat and i couldnt get it off the bottom! some big bubbles came up and thats when we realized it was a turtle  :

after much pulling i finally brought the behemoth to the surface. heres a pic of the turtle:

that little lure in his armpit is my 2" long DT-10, so that turtle is about 20" long based on the size of the lure!

my dad said "should i get an oar?" and i said "yeah! get the oar!" so he grabbed the oar and just popped the turtle in the face with it!

i said "what are you doing!? dont hit the turtle, get the lure!" right after i said that, the turtle latched onto the oar and left dents in the oar  

after the turtle let go, my dad popped the lure off the turtle and it swam under.

that was definitley the most exciting part of the night

after that "incident" my dad got another 14.5" on the spinnerbait (he was starting to really like that lure):

it was beginning to get dark, so i suggested that we move over to a shallow cove to try and get some shallow feeders.

went into a cove with my DT-03, and about 3rd cast in the cove i got a tiny little bass that was probably 10". didnt measure it or get a picture.

it was dark by now so we headed in.

about halfway between the cove and the boat ramp i decided to chuck out the DT-03 and troll for a bit. not even 2 minutes after i started trolling, i got the biggest fish of the night!  ;D

15.5"

tonights outing sucked really bad at the beginning and was looking hopeless, but it turned out not bad after all

[Tin]

You got to stop posting pics of your dad, it is really starting to creep me out.

[paul.]

way to go dave.  glad you caught some and sounds like quite an adventure.  

i just gotta ask.   is that your pb turtle?

[.dsaavedra.]

way to go dave. glad you caught some and sounds like quite an adventure.

i just gotta ask. is that your pb turtle?

sure is

[MichiganFisherman]

Good job getting the skunk out of the boat.  Pretty looking bass, ugly looking snapper...  lol bet that was fun.  Keep em comin!  

[Speed Worm]

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[.dsaavedra.]

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