Fishing the High Power Herring (Randall's swimbait)

[SPEEDBEAD.]

If you are only going to catch one fish during a trip, you have to make it count.

I never get to do this so....Weight guesses anyone? 

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Vertical shot

[fourbizz]

Nice! Im gonna say..... hmmm.... 6.25? ;D

[Mattlures]

The fish looks to be an overachiever. It doesnt look long but very fat and healthy, tough call hmmmm

5 1/2

[roadwarrior]

235?

[bassman31783]

I'm going to go on the high side of the guesses so far and say 7lbs 4oz.  Awesome fish though.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Nice! Im gonna say..... hmmm.... 6.25? ;D

I knew one of you guys would chime in.   ;D

6-4 is correct. I really thought that it was going to be bigger but like Matt said, it was a relatively short fish that had fat gut.

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235?

LOL, I wish.  Total weight of fish and angler is a little closer to 300. 

;D

[Dan:]

nice fish Wayne!

[Mattlures]

Thats a great looking fish. I actualy had my first guess at 6 3/4 then I edited my post. That one was tough. Because it was fat like that it made it look shorter then it was which made me second guess the weight. Actualy I changed my guess 3 times  :-[

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Wow! What a football! Regardless of weight it is a perfect specimen. At least a solid 6 or better.

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Here she is sitting in the net, waiting for me to get my gear ready.

[Randall]

Congrats on the big bass. Nice photos as well. Thanks for posting. Sent you a PM.

[senko_77]

Nice one Wayne!  Those things are freakin fire.  I just posted my video I made of me fishing it in the thread above yours.  Go check it out. 

How were you retrieving it when she hit?  I added 4 suspendots to mine and barely crawled it. 

[1inStripes]

I just hate that RW was the one that beat me to the smartelack guess.

[aarogb]

Nice fish!!!

What are the weights of those swimbaits?

[Randall]

Dock Master, The bait he is using is a slow sink that is six inches long. It sinks very slow and weighs just slightly over one ounce.

[Dwight Hottle]

That's a beauty Wayne. Swim baits rule.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

How were you retrieving it when she hit? I added 4 suspendots to mine and barely crawled it.

Ryan, I found that if I rip it a couple times, the bait will dive to about two feet. After that, I will start a medium retrieve which brings the bait back towards the surface.

Throw in some pauses and I'm good to go.

I will have to try the Suspend Dots.  There are a couple areas I would really like to fish the bait deeper.

Randall, thanks again for an awesome bait.

[DAWG1419]

Nice catch Speed.I'll post up my high power herring catch soon. Great fish and congrats