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
Big-O Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 New PB! That's Awesome MBM and nice photos too Big O www.ragetail.com Quote
Mrs. Matstone Posted September 9, 2011 Posted September 9, 2011 Beautiful pics, nice smallies and cute dog! Congrats on your new pb. Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted September 10, 2011 Super User Posted September 10, 2011 Nice Smallie ~ Congrats ! Bummer about the tourney - I bet that won't happen to you again. btw - who's your little four-legged buddy there with you in the photo's ? A-Jay Quote
Super User deep Posted September 10, 2011 Super User Posted September 10, 2011 PBs are always special. Great photos too. WTG! Quote
MaineBassMan Posted September 11, 2011 Author Posted September 11, 2011 Nice Smallie ~ Congrats ! Bummer about the tourney - I bet that won't happen to you again. btw - who's your little four-legged buddy there with you in the photo's ? A-Jay Thanks all!! A-Jay, the sad part about the tourney thing is that once I got the boat out of the water I took the cowling off and I took my pair of pliers and tapped the selonoids and it went down! That's my WABBIT DoG he is a beagle named TANK MOE WABBITS, he just so happens to love bass fishing in the off season! Quote
"BRB" Posted September 11, 2011 Posted September 11, 2011 Nice smallie!!! You need train tank to take pictures. Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted September 12, 2011 Super User Posted September 12, 2011 Thanks all!! A-Jay, the sad part about the tourney thing is that once I got the boat out of the water I took the cowling off and I took my pair of pliers and tapped the selonoids and it went down! That's my WABBIT DoG he is a beagle named TANK MOE WABBITS, he just so happens to love bass fishing in the off season! I imagine it's tough to beat any day out on the water with Tank - bass or not. A-Jay Quote
Super User bassfisherjk Posted September 12, 2011 Super User Posted September 12, 2011 Congrat's on your new Pb,good story also. Quote
MaineBassMan Posted September 12, 2011 Author Posted September 12, 2011 Nice smallie!!! You need train tank to take pictures. Thats an idea! but I'm trying to teach him to run bass like wabbits so all I have to do is cast out in front of him. Quote
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