My Biggest fish of the year

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hobobob
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My Biggest fish of the year

Post by hobobob » Sun May 13, 2007 3:46 pm

Biggest of the day on an x-rap xr8
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Friday night, gave a call to my fishing buddy trying to get a trip together to the local reservoir, but he said he promised his girl to take her to blah blah blah. I had to changed plan and decide to go solo and hit the local lake.

Saturday morning, I grab my shimano compre 2pc, revo stx, compact box of lures and couple packs of soft plastics and hit the road. First I tried my favorite xrap xr8 in silver, that thing is a dinky magnet, cookie cutter after cookie cutter, even two bluegills. I snap on a rattling rapala hoping to land a keeper size. After cover a good stretch of shoreline with fan cast, I landed 3 keep size. around 10:00AM, I decided that I had enough cleaning alge and weeds off trebles in between casts and tied on a flurocabon leader and a owner 4/0 ewg hooks.

It's plastic time. First plastic I tried is the sweet beaver, pitching it into visible beds and holes in between weed pads. I saw my lines moving to different direction, so I set the hook, nothing. Within 5mins I got line movement again, waited like 2 sec, set the hook nothing :?: what gives? Time to change lure,

I put on a strike king z-too for the very first time. Its the biggest producer of the day. I like my super flukes, but this thing is amazing. It's incredibly soft, feel like softgel instead of plastic. I pitched it near fallen trees and lilly pads slowly twitch and jerk it once in a while. Time after time, the fish would hit it hard, no nibblers here, I got like 10 bass from dingy size to 3lbers. I saw a nice patch of lily pad, first pitch in the hole, BAM, the fish in the last photo hit it like a fright train right after the lure touch the water. Landed him pretty quickly since he had no where to run. Fishing slow down at noon, so I called it a day around 1pm. Amazingly the z-too still looks brand new, I am going to save it to see how many outing can it last, maybe those toothy critters at the reservoir can chew them up.

For those guys who fish shallows, I highly recommened a good pair of sunglasses. I could see the bottom (3-6ft) very clearly with kaenon kore copper lenses. I saw a guy standing on a ledge casting spinning bait into the next zipcode, mean while, right at the bottom of his feet, under 3ft of water, a huge female is on a bed doing her business. I wish my phone camera could take picture of him and the fish. Very funny stuff.

Nothing wakes you up like a rattling rapala in the morning
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20 inch plus on a strike king z too
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Re: My Biggest fish of the year

Post by TOPWATER » Sun May 13, 2007 8:30 pm

Nice job on the fish, long skinny bass.

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Re: My Biggest fish of the year

Post by GAMEOVER » Sun May 13, 2007 9:51 pm

Give em some time them northerns like to fatten up.

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Re: My Biggest fish of the year

Post by Lightninrod » Mon May 14, 2007 4:18 pm

Great Bass hobobob! Good color.


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Re: My Biggest fish of the year

Post by woodman6035 » Mon May 14, 2007 4:46 pm

nice fish :D

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