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| NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! |
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| 15.25" X-Rap Shad Shallow (Perch) |
6:00-6:50AM GOMH
7:30-10:30AM Big Rice Point
60-66℉, Fog, Cloudy, Light Rain, Calm to 5MPH
73℉
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| 17" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow) |
I started at the GOMH when it was still pretty dark thanks to the fog and heavy overcast. I got 4 jumpers there. The 15.25" and 12-incher came on the perch Shad Shallow X-Rap. I got a 15-incher on the chart/orange belly Rippin Rap and a 12.75" on the junebug chatterjig. The Panfish guy showed up around 6:15, so I didn't fish the South side.
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| 18.25" Picasso Jig/Craw Fatty (Sunfish/OkCraw) |
The fog was still heavy when I left the GOMH. It wasn't as bad on the East side of the lake, but once I was past the island I was down to maybe 30 feet of visibility. Thanks to the GPS I found the reed edge and followed that around to Big Rice. I didn't have any action until the fog had mostly lifted. I missed the first blow up, which happened right next to the boat when I wasn't expecting it as I worked my way towards the tip along the front side. I had a bass miss the frog in a hole in the rice, which I couldn't recoax into hitting. I caught the 18-incher in a different hole in the rice. I thought it was going to be a dogfish with the way it pushed water when it hit. I got the 17-incher off the tip on the Sparrow Bobby's Perfect. I had the Picasso Jig get bit off by a pike. I also caught an aggressive 15-inch bass on the back side. If it wasn't raining and cold I would have stayed out later. I foolishly left my sweatshirt in the car, but rain wasn't in the forecast. How was I to know it might rain.
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| 17.25" Mad Maxx (Big Sexy) |
6:30-9:05PM Chuck's Point, Melon Patch, Big Rice Point
70-60℉, Mostly Sunny, 6-2mph NW
73℉
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| 17" Monsoor Swim Jig/Grass Pig Jr (GP/SG) |
I put the red tackle bag on the center seat per usual. Big mistake. It got bounced off and broke my favorite frog rod, the 7'4" heavy Tatula. I am very much now regretting not picking up more of them over the years as the rod is now discontinued and they have seemingly all been snapped up. Just last week I did buy the same rod in a Tatula XT in a deal on eBay I couldn't pass up. This was my inaugural trip with that rod in the boat; I put an old Team Daiwa X on the rod as well as a "Big Sexy" frog. So not wanting to cry over spilled milk I picked up the XT and started casting in the reeds on Chuck's Point. I had a good blow up but discovered that the drag on the reel was totally backed off. The fish got off. Not the ideal start to a trip. I quickly decided I didn't like the way the TD-X felt on the rod, so I exchanged it for the Tatula that was on the broken rod. Better, but not as good as feeling as the broken rod. Nothing was taking the frog, so I switched to the Monsoor Swim Jig, different rod, and was into fish immediately. I caught 5 bass (15.75, 13.75, 17, 12, 13.25) on the Monsoor Jig and lost 3 or 4 in the reeds as well. I also got my first bass (15.5) on the new frog rod and a Sparrow Bobby's Perfect. The bite slowed down to a crawl around 7:15, so I headed to the Melon Patch, which was dead. I caught one small pike on the Monsoor Jig and that was it. I broke for Big Rice by 8:15PM. I was immediately rewarded with the biggest bass of the night, the 17.25" on "Big Sexy". I caught 3 more bass (16.25,14,12) and a small pike on Big Sexy as well. It stayed surprising light out and the skeeters weren't much of a bother, so I stayed out past 9.
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| 18.25lbs (Fish 2 & 3 were from last night) |
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