Monday, July 20, 2009

Tubin' and Bassin' with Mike Thompson

Me and Mike got out last night for some float tubin' hoping to get onto some more huge bass. The weather was warm, but the winds were a little stronger than we thought they would be. I tried the Hoochie Coochie swim shad, but didn't get any hits on it so I pretty much stuck with my trusty Ribbit High Floater frog after that.We split up working different parts of the lake, both working slop and pads. I found myself in an open area with slop all around. I started to get a few hits on the frog too but could not connect. Dang, some were pretty big fish too. So I decided to downsize to the smaller profile frog and decided I had to let them take it more. Immediately I got a 14" bass...



About five minutes later I tossed my frog to an area I had a good hit on earlier and a big bass smacked it! It was pulling my tube around and I'm thinkin' "Here we go again...big bass!" I got it in and it was a 19" LM bass. I weighed it on my digital scale, but it said it weighed a little over 2 lbs and I'm thinking, "That can't be right". So I put the bass on my metal stringer and headed over to Mike Thompson for photos, who was quite a ways away. As I was approaching, Mike was tossing a frog when he got a big fish on which he thought was a state record bass! But it turned out to be only a big fat northern...

The catch...


And the release...


Here's the 19" bass I caught...



When I got home I was examining my scale when I discovered it was on the metric system, Measuring in kilo's I believe...so that's why the bass only weighed what I thought was a couple pounds!

Right now I am in second place in the Bass Derby. The result on my outing means I get to cull a smaller bass, getting darn close to first place. Wow! This year has been the best bass fishing I have ever had. I never really targeted 'em too much before, but I gotta admit seeing those big ol' lunker bass is pretty cool! This year is far from over, and I truly believe when it is all said and done I'll have a 5lb. average.

2 comments:

Basspastor said...

Should of had that scale working right. You are just .01 out of 1st.

Casey Nygren said...

Wow, that's close! Guess I better get out there and catch a .02 oz. bass!