My Bass Narrative... Read at your own risk

[BassinAssassin171]

This is a "little" fishing report I wrote to one of my fishing buddies and I've been itching to see what others think of it... happened last year, but it has been called by some "the perfect day." See what you think (if you have the patience to read the whole thing )

From: bassin_assassin@hotmail.com

To: tom@anson-stoner.com; smithgus@aol.com

Subject: Great day out on the golf course

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:14:16 -0400

No... I am not playing golf. I just went for the water hazard, the BIG water hazard. There is a big lake on a private country club that my buddy takes me up to every once in a while that is brimming with nice sized bass. We got to the little jon-boat with a tiny trolling motor at about 7:45 this morning. Before loading in, my buddy and I were casting some spinner baits around the dock. He got a nice tug and started to fight a bass. I came over to watch it play out and asked him how big he thought it was. He replied, 'I dunno, it feels like one of those little ones that fights well.' How wrong he was. We saw a hulking form rise up from the depths with the tip of his rod. We both hit the deck to try to lip that hawg out of the water ASAP. He snatched it up triumphantly, glistening and dripping in the sunlight of the early morning. I took some picture with my phone and we let it go. Man, what a great start of the day! We loaded up in the boat and started off onto the lake. We went into a cove immediately to the left of the dock to catch nothing but a few logs that were piled up on the bottom. Then, something caught my eye from the cove directly across from us. I saw the water shimmering, vibrating, as if alive and nervous of some unseen danger lurking below. Baitfish, probably shad, and LOTS of them. We gunned the trolling motor over there to behold an even more awe-inspiring display. Green, thrashing bombshells of zealous largemouths erupted onto the surface, spraying silvery shards of of shad-shrapnel far across the battle ground of the food chain. They stalked in and then immediately morphed into angry torpedoes that ripped through the whirling balls of silver ripples at speeds I had never thought capable of such lethargic looking fish. I need to bring a video camera next time. Well you can only imagine our elation at this spectacle. We cast our spinner baits into the midst of the carnage time and time again only to scare of the bait ball and have to reposition. Then I had an idea. I saw many of the little shad that had either been hit by a bass or injured in flight from one swimming, straining, on the surface. I tied on a shad colored, jointed, floating Rapala and tossed it into the maelstrom of scales. I reeled slowly and carefully across the surface to mimic the wounded baitfish. I was not rewarded with the extravagant missile strike I had expected, however, but a stealthy sniper mission from a rogue bass. All of a sudden, a green-white blur flashed up from the depths, plucked my lure from the surface, and darted back toward the murky underdark of the lake. I fought it accordingly and quickly landed and decent-sized 3 pound bass. The next few fish gave me the show I had patiently waited for. They NAILED it!!! Exploding, shattering the surface in feeding frenzy to tear my lure down from our world of air and light to one of watery shimmers. I could barely make out these fish until they flashed to the surface, exhausted in body but having twice the will enough to make one last run. These fish gave me some of the best fights on a light spinning rod I have ever had. My friend joined in the battle after I equipped him with a similar lure from my arsenal.

Once, when in hot pursuit of a tormented bait cloud that had just opened up and begun to rain (upward of course), I placed my lure directly behind the storm only to be torn from the surface moments after hitting the frothy plane. This was one fight I will never forget. Even though it lasted only about 2-3 minutes, that fish fought with ferocity I have never felt in a freshwater fish. I was sure that I must have a 10 lb. bass or more. My buddy and I were pleasantly surprised to see the the silvery-yellowish form of a hybrid striped bass float tiredly to the surface. I boated it and we estimated it would go about 6 or 7 pounds. Took a few pictures with my phone and gently nursed it back to health cradled in my hand just below the surface. It spitefully flipped a tail-full of water in my face before darting away from the boat.

Now we caught a few more bass that day, all averaging at about 3-4 pounds, on worms and spinner near a bridge and on the dock. We even returned to find some more feeding in the cove and picked a few out of that crowd. All in all, we landed 19 fish total. My friend got the biggest largemouth, and I the biggest fish of the day. We were tied 9 to 9 at the dock just before leaving as he desperately tried to pull ahead with his favorite spinnerbait, but I showed him a thing or two with my 10' texas rigged worm and beat him out 10 to 9 in the end.

We had one of the best days out on the water that we have had in a LONG time. I thought y'all might want to here about that one. We will definitely be returning to that lake soon!!!

Trey

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[paul.]

i'm glad i noticed this.  trey, you should be an outdoor writer my man.    hope you and me both have plenty more days like that one you described.  just awesome man!  

[ba7ss3in]

That was nicely put.

[BassinAssassin171]

Thanks Paul! That's what my fishin report buddy told me  

That was on that legendary golf course lake I used to talk about so much.  It'll be great if I start keyin in on the hawgs like you bud

happy fishin

[Pigsticker]

yeah that was a fun read! i was surprised there was a hybrid in that golf course pond. In ponds where i fish its all panfish crappie and largemouth. Great Day and Fantastic writeup ;D

[Bass Junkie]

  but I showed him a thing or two with my 10' texas rigged worm

10 foot worm??? I know 'bout big bait big fish, but that to extreme!!!LOL J/K, glad to hear you heard a good day!!! And boy oh boy a hybrid!! Good job. BTW, wheres this pond

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Nice one man! Good wording that makes me able to fully visualize what was going on.

[Paul Roberts]

I feel like I was there! Fun read.