7/30/06--One bite, one Bass

[Lightninrod]

Caught a few dinks at my boss's pond yesterday but nothing worthy of a pic

Headed down to the Ocmulgee Public Fishing Area today with showers off-and-on and thunderstorms threatening with some wind. Temps cooled off to the 70s after rain yesterday.

Tried a shallow and a deep cr/bait, wacky-rigged Senko, T-rigged Paca Craw, and a Zoom Vibra-tail worm all to no avail in the upper end and along the creek channel.

Headed up the lake(106 acres but low water level) and went into a shallow cove; throwing the shallow cr/bait and then the T-rigged Zoom. In 3' of water I felt weight and set the hook. Sure enough, she(there are only female F1 Bass in this 2 year old lake) had me wrapped around some underwater wood. I felt her surge as I tried to undo the snag but was having no luck. Back and forth with the rod and the boat until about 5 minutes later, she came off of the wood and into the boat

Surprisingly, the 8lb Seaguar Invisix line held and the GY sugoi hook kept her on for all that time.


4lbs, 9ozs--21"

Close-up

Again


Dan

[woodman6035]

nice fish

[Nitroman77]

Very sweet and I love the Orange Pixy!

[Lightninrod]

Sorry Cal .............I forgot to mention the tackle:

7' Medium Light Kistler Helium rod

Daiwa Pixy

Seaguar's 8# test new INVIZX line

Crawford knot

1/16th oz Gambler screw-in weight

4/0 Sugoi hook

Zoom's Ultra-vibe Speed Worm


Thanks everyone for looking.

That's going to be a Trophy lake some day. The DNR stocked it two years ago with F1 female fingerlings; no males! They are growing at about 2.2 lbs per year. This is the first time stocking only females; the theory being that the bigger-than-males females will just get bigger quicker by not having to go thru the spawn.

In case you missed it, here's the first Bass I caught there; even bigger!


Dan

[Evs]

Nice fish Dan..awsome gear there too! I think you have caught more fish than I have had times out

[bass109]

Dont stop fishing,Dan