MaineBassMan Posted April 2, 2010 Posted April 2, 2010 It was my best friend's birthday yesterday on April 1st, so I decided to take him fishing as a gift. Well he had birthday boy luck and ended up kicking my butt. We both had a great day. We caught 28 smallmouth, (he had 17 and I had 11), and only one was under 2lbs and 9 of them were 3lbs 5oz. to 3lbs 10oz. All the other were between 2lbs 6oz and 2lbs 15ozs. Our 5 fish total was 17lbs 9oz., I'll take that in a tournament any day! We caught them on everything: spinner baits, tubes, grubs, drop shotting and suspended jerk baits. Now the number one lure for the day, the one that caught the most and biggest smallies was something that I hardly use. It was a Kevin Vandam strike king 6-9 foot crank bait. I've never had luck with these until yesterday, all we would do is cast them out in 8-9 foot of water and slowly crank them in. You would feel it bouncing off the boulders and then slam they would nail it. At the end of the day I had two bass on at the same time on one crank bait. The larger of the two fell off at the boat, of course! The one that I caught weighed in at 3lbs 6oz., and the one that fell off was noticeably larger! My friend has more pictures on his camera. I will post them here when he sends them to me. The one that didn't fall off! The birthday boy! The only one under 2 pounds and I caught him of course, but he was my first spinner bass this early! Quote
Super User firefightn15 Posted April 2, 2010 Super User Posted April 2, 2010 I'd say that makes for a great birthday, boy you guys really smoked 'em! 8-) Quote
Super User Grey Wolf Posted April 2, 2010 Super User Posted April 2, 2010 I say that was a great birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
pitchin fool Posted April 3, 2010 Posted April 3, 2010 That's one heck of a day. I love when they eat anything you throw at them. I wish our opener would hurry up and get here, all you guy are making me realllllllyyyy jealous!! Quote
MaineBassMan Posted April 3, 2010 Author Posted April 3, 2010 Thanks guys, I had more pictures to post but my friend is a little slow at sending them to me. I had to work today but my Father and my Great Uncle went back today and nailed them again on the crank. Their five fish total was only 16lbs 11oz today, but they caught 33 smallies and the biggest was 3lbs 14oz. They said they had a few chasers that looked to be over 4lbs, but you don't know until you weigh them! Quote
MaineBassMan Posted April 4, 2010 Author Posted April 4, 2010 Odds and ends, a couple of other bass. Looks like my friend is not going to send the other half of the pictures, he's lazy! 2lbs 02oz. largemouth from a different lake. 3lbs 14oz. smallmouth. They caught a lot more bass then this, but you have to twist their arms to get them to pick up the camera and take a few pictures! This is the day that they caught 33 bass. > Quote
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