MaineBassMan Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 Yesterday I found myself busy doing chores on my day off. I started the morning off by installing a water pump for this woman up the road that comes to Maine from Florida for the summers. Then after completing that task I begin working on my boat. I had to replace the solenoids for my motor's trim. This cost me big time last weekend. I had second place in a tournament all wrapped up and as I started back for weigh in it failed! Couldn't not get up on plan and made it back to the landing seven minutes late losing seven pounds! Well anyways after replacing the solenoids I thought I better go and test it out so I headed to a lake about 40 minutes away. I got on the water around 1:00 pm. It was a cold overcast rainy day with no wind. I knew that the smallmouths were feeding on white perch lately so I tied on a white spinner bait with silver double willow blades. First cast I had a monster strike!! This think fought like a new state record. When I finally got it in it was only 2lbs 08oz smallmouth! I guess I forgot how good a September smallmouth fights? The white spinner bait was hot for about and hour when all of a sudden the clouds opened up an the sun broke out. It was like fishing a whole new day, it became hot and muggy and the spinner bait bite stopped just as quickly as it started. I decided that I would go to the back bay and see if the largemouth were active. After spending two hours back there without a bite I stopped and assessed the situation. I thought it's hot and flat calm, what has worked for me in the past in these conditions? I thought I've done pretty good with smallmouth fishing top water and wacky rigged senkos. So didn't feel like fishing top water so I rigged a junebug wacky senko and put a small nail weight in one end of the worm. I proceeded out to about ten foot of water out in the middle of this huge flat that surrounds this huge underwater grass bed. On my very first cast I watched my line sink when it stopped all of a sudden. I thought "It couldn't have hit bottom already?" So I reeled in the slack and I felt movement so I set the hook and with that the drag went crazy! This smallmouth acted like it had bottle rockets in it's butt, causing him to tail walk all over the place giving me a great show. I thought that the two pounder early fought well I was mistaken because this September HOG Bronze Back was really fighting! Just when I thought I had him licked I would bend over to lip him and he would go on another big run. Well I finally landed him and weighed him. The scale bounced between 4lbs 06oz and 4lbs 07oz so I called it at 4lbs 06oz. This beats my old PB by and ounce but it still beats it. It also measured 20 1/2"s The rest of the evening went very well as the wacky worm drove them crazy. Caught a couple nice three pound smallies too. Every time I get into the smallies I wonder why I even bother with the largemouths? Someday I will break five pounds. I don't Know why I haven't yet. They are caught in our local tournaments and a friend caught one with me in my boat last season, But I can't, well I have hooked into them before but everytime I get one something goes wrong. I was alone so it was hard to take a really good picture but here it is: Dang these pictures don't do it any justice. Calm water a three pounder and 2lbs 110z Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted September 9, 2011 Super User Posted September 9, 2011 Congrats on the new pb. Quote
hookingem Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 A new pb is a new pb! Nice fish congrats! Quote
Super User Grey Wolf Posted September 9, 2011 Super User Posted September 9, 2011 Congrats on your new PB !!!!!!!! Quote
DavidWH Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 That one might give you riding partner a run for his/her money! lol Very nice! Quote
MaineBassMan Posted September 12, 2011 Author Posted September 12, 2011 That one might give you riding partner a run for his/her money! lol Very nice! LOL! nope he's a Tank! Quote
Daniel My Brother Posted September 12, 2011 Posted September 12, 2011 Beautiful fish...all of 'em! I like the dog, too. Quote
FishnMan Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 Wow, I just hooked into a 3lber yesterday on a large creek near my house in my kayak and it pulled me and my anchor 20 feet lol, I lt had been over a year since I had caught a bronzeback in this creek and WOW, this guy was super aggressive and fought like a 6lb largemouth. I would love to catch one as beautiful as the one you landed there, nice job, and congrats! Quote
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