jmgravenor
Sealiner
I had a late night the night before and was planning to sleep late and got a call from my bud at like 8 and he wanted to go float tubing at DD. Alright, so we packed up and went, we got on the water put on a junebug worm and started for the reeds. I lost the first fish of the day which wasnt surprising as its hard for me to concentrate on the taps and normally stuff it up.
We moved on to the wall and I fish the reeds and got nothing. We moved across the dam to fish the bridge and moved across to the canal there or as my bud and I call it, "the secret spot" which is not so secret we found out. I lost 2 fish there also which tested my patience and lost a 3rd fish coming up from the canal.:doh So 4 fish lost for the day already! Not such a good day. We headed back to the wall again and changed my tactics, I crept up to the spot quietly and just disengaged my reel and let the worm drop. As soon as it hit the bottom, BAM!, Fish on!((r(e(ling. Out came a small 800grammer.
I moved along those reeds and did the exact same thing, let the line drop and same thing, fish tapped and reeled him up, another small one of 700 grams.
Moved along again and then let the lure drop and it took and took more line and Im foolishly thinking that SHO its deep here, and it kept on taking and taking line and eventually it started moved to the right. Striking with two hands was definately a must for me to land the fish. He was fighting me for about a minute and I was sure this was a BIG BUGGER.
He surfaced and wow what a beautiful bass, mahn I was chuffed, took pics kept him in the live well which I forgot to mention, my friend was carrying with my other 800grammer. Dumped him in and headed for the bank and took more pics before heading home. The big one was about 1.1kg.
After a refreshed glass of coke and some lunch we headed back for DD and I fished the wall confident now that I was going to hammer there. I was right, 2nd drop of the lure against the reeds pulled out a 1kg bass. Lost another one along the same bunch of reeds and finally fished the grass mats and caught a small 500grammer. Those were all the fish for the day. Very enjoyable day for me and a bit dissapointed I lost 5 fish but landed 5 too so wasnt so bad.
Here are the pics of the day.
this is the big one:
We moved on to the wall and I fish the reeds and got nothing. We moved across the dam to fish the bridge and moved across to the canal there or as my bud and I call it, "the secret spot" which is not so secret we found out. I lost 2 fish there also which tested my patience and lost a 3rd fish coming up from the canal.:doh So 4 fish lost for the day already! Not such a good day. We headed back to the wall again and changed my tactics, I crept up to the spot quietly and just disengaged my reel and let the worm drop. As soon as it hit the bottom, BAM!, Fish on!((r(e(ling. Out came a small 800grammer.
I moved along those reeds and did the exact same thing, let the line drop and same thing, fish tapped and reeled him up, another small one of 700 grams.
Moved along again and then let the lure drop and it took and took more line and Im foolishly thinking that SHO its deep here, and it kept on taking and taking line and eventually it started moved to the right. Striking with two hands was definately a must for me to land the fish. He was fighting me for about a minute and I was sure this was a BIG BUGGER.
He surfaced and wow what a beautiful bass, mahn I was chuffed, took pics kept him in the live well which I forgot to mention, my friend was carrying with my other 800grammer. Dumped him in and headed for the bank and took more pics before heading home. The big one was about 1.1kg.
After a refreshed glass of coke and some lunch we headed back for DD and I fished the wall confident now that I was going to hammer there. I was right, 2nd drop of the lure against the reeds pulled out a 1kg bass. Lost another one along the same bunch of reeds and finally fished the grass mats and caught a small 500grammer. Those were all the fish for the day. Very enjoyable day for me and a bit dissapointed I lost 5 fish but landed 5 too so wasnt so bad.
Here are the pics of the day.
this is the big one:
Pity about those 5 though. I wanted to know how the live-well on the float tubes works?