But it didn't look that way to start out with. I arrived at the GOMH at about 8:30PM and started casting my white Stanley Phantom just to the left of "the juice." The "juice" is now plugged up with weeds. On about my third cast a fish was hitting my lure and I jerked. My Phantom came off of the Norman Speed Clip. I must not have put it on correctly because that has never ever happened to me with a topwater lure; Spinnerbaits more times than I care to think about, a couple of times with diving plugs, but never a topwater. Anyway I hadn't hooked the fish, so I could see it floating out there. I immediately grabbed the chartreuse firetiger Phantom and started casting for it. On about the 3rd attempt a jumpin bullhead jumped all over the chartreuse Phantom. Keep in mind I was not working the bait, just trying to catch my lure. I quickly reeled it in the discover it was a 19" Derby Fish.
I got the fish back in the lake. The current was not pulling from the area my Phantom was sitting, so I re-spotted it and tried in vain to hook it. But after about 10 minutes of that a boat came through the channel and agreed to try and get it for me. Being that it's such a big bait he spotted it no problem when I cast to show him where it was. I got my Phantom back! I do have one more in that color, but all the same I don't want to ever lose any of them. I may never be able to find another one of any color.
Since he went through the "new juice" I cast a Spro Poppin' Frog off to the East and got a 15.5" on that. I went back to throwing the chartreuse Phantom and got four more jumpers from 13" to 15.5" before the mosquito's chased me out at around 9:35PM.
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