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yep, that sounds about right and more importantly looks about right. Great fish. Just beautiful

to be honest, i have had more success with my 12" medium sized sock albino colored rigged wacky style. Go big or go home.

Look at you go with that crankbait! Man, that seems to be your icing on the cake. Great fish, just beautiful and congratulations on the PB, no better feeling.

Just gorgeous. Are you stickin these out of private lakes or public? Goodness man.

wow, that fish has a mouth on it. Great catch!

As a side note, what i like about you J Francho is that you are consistently a good fisherman and you don't lie about the weight of your fish. Why it bothers my so much when people do, i don't know. Nevertheless it is refreshing. Beautiful smallie. It's been a while since i have gone for a smallie. Speakin of smallies, Road Warrior i am waiting for you to share some new big smallie stories. I love the story of your biggun that got away. Nice fish, keep it up J

postspawn...oh no my friend. You are going to hit it right on the head full blown spawn. Top water always works during the spawn there. There is so much cover on most lakes that fish are usually not too deep. In addition, texas rig whatever your using. And you don't need to wacky rig a sinko. If the lake is not heavy populated put on a worm texas rigged. Jigs works as well. So, topwater-yes always (might not get many bites but it always works. Spinnerbait, your best bet for numbers and bass up to 4 pounds. 5 pounds and up, texas rigged worm. Here is an attachment of my fishing during the spawn in Minnesota around June 1st. You should consistently catch spawning bass till the third week of June. MN is the greatest place on earth. Go get em!

My goodness. Your posts are always amazing. I wonder how many 10 pound bass you see a year... Nowadays, do you even get excited over a 7 -8 pound bass??? Unbelievable

beautiful, just a flat out beauty

Always look forward to your posts George. And you have never let me down. Great fish

Yeh, you can go there with your gas motor. Just keep it up. Went there last month, it's beautiful and very pressured. Plan on only getting a few bites. Good luck

priceless, even when i am not fishing i can still catch em! Thanks LHC, that made my morning ;D

great job man, that looks fun. Hope you keep that momentum going

Dwight i am convinced that you are the man

good job son 8-)

i think i am man enough to admit that i have seen this before as well. I pitched towards that stupid fish for half an hour before the light registered in my head...it's probably a carp! So i motored closer and sure enough it was. Happens to the best of us.

where are you fishing? Minnesota's bass fishing season doesn't open for a few more weeks...

i have a boot on top of the raft as well so i have no idea how i am going to put the stickers on this thing. I was thinking about putting them on a folder and keeping them with me in the boat. Not sure if that will satisfy the hunger of the DNR though.

These aren't the biggest but it is what i have for the week. Fishing was tough. I am averaging 3-5 fish per 4 hours of fishing. Always tough fishing conditions but i usually get one out of the bunch that is picture worthy making it all worth while. It is interesting though, if anyone has ever fished Minnesota, they'd know that catching a 100 fish a day is average (given that you know the lake). The lakes i am restricted to fish up here in northern VA are kickin my trash. I wish i could get into the Potomac river though, that is one mighty fine fishery. Either way, the raft is treating me well, however, i got a ticket the other day from the warden on Lake Brittle for not having my raft registered! So, apparently a raft with a 30 lb thrust trolling motor is just too dangerous to not have registered. I swear, DNR guys must get such a kick out of giving tickets. It's one thing if you know better, but i mean come on; getting a ticket over something you thought was legal is ridiculous. These are from Lake Brittle using the old classic bubble gum colored 3 inch senko; the prodigy of artificial bass fishing. ----First one here is a 4.1 lb. I think it looks bigger than it really is. It was short, look at my hand to mouth ratio which helps make her see she is a wee bit smaller than what she is. She just likes the camera. ----Second one is my 5.2, short bass but really fat. Really bad hook set but was lucky to land her. ----Third one is my 6.1 lb 22.25 incher. She fought like a champ making her my favorite battle thus far this year. ----Fourth one, same fish but it looks like i am Sasquatch walking through the woods with my food ----Last one, (not pictured) is the monster i had shake me off 5 feet from the boat making my heart drop and i am still feeling the pain. At least she jumped high enough that i got to see all of her beauty. While in mid-air, she looked at me, i looked at her, and we both knew right then that she was not going to end up in my arms. Looked over 7 pounds. Just kept swimming towards me and i never could set the hook.

Completely agree. This theory has proven time and again. His technique is for finicky fish and smaller bass <5 lbs.

That 5.7 is a beauty. Even if you caught just one fish all day and it was that one, it would have been an incredible day. Numbers just don't matter (unless you're in a tournament). Good luck next week

Dan, i would put that bass around 7.2 lb give or take recent body excretions.

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

You know its unfair that you have to take the pic by yourself holding the fish away like that making them look slightly smaller for those two beauties. Those are just beautiful fish and you are gettin that Kayak thing down real well! Don't Kayak fish but those two days look fun.

Now your talkin Bigbasshunter! That is a real scale. And no matter how close or far away, no one is going to argue about how big that fish is. But we aren't stupid concerning the other dinks you posted. Great 6.9! That is a beautiful fish.