Hooked up with 870 late yesterday afternoon for another trip to one of his honey holes. Same one we visited last time, actually. Results were similar, too. We started in the weedy end of the lake and had about dozen on the counter before heading over to the deep water.
Lots of vertical jigging for both of us as you can guess by the screens above. I started with a Cajun Cricket colored baby shad as it had worked well for me on Friday night and I kept it on all night. That color would put 90% of my fish in the boat, although I did try a few other colors. Big fish honors go to the captain of the boat once again with not one but 2 really nice bass. I only got pictures of the first one; I’ll let WC post the 2nd one. This one was 3 1/4 lbs.
We got them all cleaned up for my partner to distribute to his cronies and I hit the road home, seeing 2 red foxes in my travels home. Another nice trip with lots of memories made.
The action under the boat was so crazy that if you left a line dangling of the side while putting a fish in the cooler you ran the risk of another fish hitting your line and trying to steal your whole pole (ask 6lb how we know! lol) The larger bass was just shy of 4lbs by a few ounces
Don’t mind 6lb’s finger in the shot. When 6lb found out Cajun Cricket was the preferred color early on I switched to it and never used anything else. After catching the two bass my line is junk and I need to re-spool.
I know I was whooped after cleaning fish and grabbing a bite to eat. (I had a full day of manual labor before fishing). I’ll make a meal for us with the spoils and hook up a couple of my older buddies as well.
[wc870…The action under the boat was so crazy that if you left a line dangling of the side while putting a fish in the cooler you ran the risk of another fish hitting your line and trying to steal your whole pole (ask 6lb how we know! lol)…]
Yup, had a very close call…I think it was the first big bass when I pulled in my line to do the netting and left my line dangling down some. Heard something odd behind me (I was facing the front of the boat down in the cockpit area) and turned around to see my pole headed for the drink off the back end. A quick lunge across the back deck and long reach kept my pole in the boat, luckily.
