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| A double to start the morning |
Conditions: Calm to a light wind, basically perfect topwater conditions. Sunny with clouds moving in.
My boater Dave Branum and I were on the water and fishing by 7AM. I had a fish hit my KVD Sexy Dawg on the 2nd cast, but it got off. On my next cast, I had a fish hit it and not hook up. I let the lure sit then started retrieving again and the fish either came back or another one hit it, but this time it stayed buttoned. Dave brought in a largemouth at the same time.
My fish was a 15.5" smallie. A couple of casts later I got a 17.5" smallie. Next I got 15.5" and 16" largemouths and I switched to a Stanley Phantom. I got a couple of small largies and a 14" on that, then I switched up to a KVD Dawg Jr. I got 15.25, 10", and 14.25" largies on that. Dave was catching fish in the same general size range as me as well, but he was fishing subsurface. I got a 15.5 largie on a MegaBass Popmax. We then switched locations and I got an 18.33 smallie on the same KVD Dawg as earlier.
She either hadn't spawned yet or had a full belly. I got two more 15" largemouth's on the Dawg, then I put it away. The wind came up a little bit and I got a couple of largies on a Lucky Craft Kelly J. I got a 17.75 smallie on a Rapala X-Rap Prop, along with a couple of small keeper largies. I did throw a craw tube eventually and got a couple of pike on that and one bite off, along with a 14.75 largie. Dave got the biggest bass of the day, a 19" plus largemouth. I also had at least half a dozen other fish that missed my topwater baits or got off.
Needless to say we were both feeling good about things.
