What a crazy month. We closed on a house May 11th and my fishing life took a week vacation right in the middle of spawn. I got out 3 times in 3 weeks, which is absoultely pathedic. I don't want to waste my now precious time posting detailed reports on trips from a few weeks back. I'd rather, you know, fish. Like I did today after work for about an hour
I haven't been to Bridgestone all year, so I thought I'd run over there real quick and try to catch every fish in that tiny pond. I damn near did. Absolutely hammered 5 really good sized bass in an hour. There's a bunch of scum up around the edge and they were hiding out in there to get away from the sun. The senko showed its supremacy today, at one point i ran it through a little pocket in the scum. The water is super clear, and i could see a big ol bass come from under the scum and just demolish the senko. I waited a brief second to make sure he had it and HIT HIM SO HARD I MADE HIM CROSS EYED. i'm tellin you, it was one of the coolest strikes and catches i've ever had
Had another trip with Jason and we caught em one after another. It was in the neighborhood of 40 between the 2 of us in just a few short hours. Here's Jay's first fish of the 2009 season:
that's no reason to smile
One of the most insane things i've ever seen in my fishing career happened with Jay. I caught a pretty good sized Bass that hammered a senko. I released him and Jay was coming through the weedline with a spinner bait. The timing was impeccable...We both watched the fish swim out of my grasp and directly to the spinnerbait and slam it! Jay caught the same fish within 2 seconds of release!
Chuck and I went out for a couple hours on a Tuesday after work to a new spot off 62. I saw this spot on the GPS and actually hiked back to it in Feburary with Nate but it was obviously frozen over. I've been wanting to go all summer to check it out. It was right in the middle of the cottonwood falling, and it was everywhere on the water. It gets tangled up in your reel and on your line and makes the fishing frustrating.
I caught one small Bass on the senko and the bluegills were all over it. They nip at it when you're retrieving and it gets annoying. They damage the plastic worm and you end up going through a ton. At one point the worm was all beat up, and instead of putting a new one on I decided to just wacky rig it and cast it out. As soon as it hit the water I made 2 cranks and BIG OL Bass come up and hit it like a ton of bricks.
Ain't that a pretty fish? Big ol kentucky spotted bass.
I'm hoping I can start getting out once or twice a week now that the house is somewhat under control. It was a loooong, crazy month and hopefully there's still bass that want their picture taken with me
