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What a beast! Congrats on a great Florida catch!

Hey man congrats on your first bass! And welcome to the board!

Way to go man way to find some summer fish deep - it certainly can be a challenge! I like your senko box too

Great job baby and congrats on your first dropshot fish! Hook was set deep in the corner of the mouth you did it perfectly. And your official PB WTG!

thats crazy

Congrats on your PB!

Nice man thanks for sharing! Always good to see kids out fishing!

Huge Fish WTG! Super fat and not too old judging by the eye. Really interesting coloring too - almost looks a little sick or something with the red tail and the pale coloration. Man what a bass! Thanks for sharing what worked for you!

I really enjoy your vids man. Another great one! Your Mom seems real cool too man - thanks for sharing!

Monster!!!

Great Fish man! Way to capitalize on the weather/conditions! Congrats on the PB!

Went out for an hour and a half last night to a relatively new spot. Ended up following the loons to a spot where the baitfish were boiling in 15 FOW. Hooked into this little chunky guy on a shakey-headed trick worm right around the boils. Went a little over 2 lbs. My first “Bird Fish” lol Tried an Rtap to imitate the baitfish but no love. Moved to a grass flat by an island and hooked a decent pickerel on my topwater swimbait. Pickerel suck lol and have no fight but the initial strike is fun to see. Moved to another grass flat with lots of stickups and fallen trees and hooked into a MONSTER bass that absolutley BOWED my MH St Croix and stayed low and buried in the grass all the way up to the boat. I made a huge mistake at that point and let the fish get under the boat and towards the stern where it wrapped the line around my anchor line and got off. I swear it was probably a new PB largemouth – it’s hard to tell because it never surfaced but I feel like it was probably 5 or 6 lbs. It sucks that I never got to see it but at least I know now that there are some lunkers in that body of water and I can’t wait to get back out and get me some!

sounds like an amazing time!

Man that's awesome way to go! Topwater strikes are my favorite!

good job y'all

did you get a weight on that behemoth?? Looking again at the lower lip and the size of the fish it's amazing to me

Hit up a small local pond today for about an hour and a half – got ther right around 7 and stayed till dark which was right around 8:30. Was throwing a single tail grub on an ultralight drop shot rig. I've been into fishing for bass on ultralight lately lol. Ran into two smallies and a pickerel that I thought was a bass on the way in. This last smallie here hit my dropshot right by the boat as I was reaching for a beer and about to call it a night. Strange how strikes like that happen a lot. This one weighted 1.82. The one earlier was like .9 lol. The 1.82 may be my pb I forget lol but it was a nice smallie for sure. They were in 15ft of water on a drop off that goes from aobut 6 ft to 21. Close to a rocky area. A nudge over 15” We were the only ones on the pond which I especially liked.

Man that's insane. Nice big old fish. Way to keep at'em!

Yeah that one might have been 1.64 or something but there were no 2 lbers in the boat last night It was a good time at a new place though which is always nice. Beezy lost a few and I think only ended up sticking one, but it was a nice healthy bass. All the bass we caught there were really chunky. The depth finder is working pretty well, still figuring it out of course. I messed a little with the sensitivity and I think that may have helped, but either way just knowing the depth is a huge improvement! Still trying to find the best way to find and sit on structure - thinking some marker buoys might help. Trolling motor coming soon! Thanks for stopping by the thread!

Thanks man! Went out with Beezy tonight to a place she wanted to try. I was being stubborn and almost said we should focus on a place we had already tried but I’m glad I went with the flow. We were there for a couple hours and the bite was pretty much on. Nothing crazy but lots of bites, Had 2 spit the hook on me and caught 3. My hookset's really been sucking. The first 2 were both about 1.5 and the last one was about a pound. Yellow trick worms were what they wanted. They were in the weeds by a dropoff. Caught my first dropshot fish on some ultralight which was fun. A nice small beautiful pond in Maine with wonderful company - can’t wait to try again. You can see on this second shot the dropshot hook really dug into the corner of the mouth like they say it will.

lol yeah guys she nailed that fish and it was a great fight! The bass came in jumping but she had already set the hook through the top lip and it wasn't going anywhere. you can see how the hookset is right in the top lip in the pic, way to go baby! When the bass got to the boat and I dipped the net in to scoop it, it realized what was happening and took off under the boat, screaming drag in the best fight I have seen this season. Beezy kept her rod tip up and maintained pressure on the fish, bringing it up carefully to my net and securing the catch to land her PB smallmouth. I was so excited for her and still am, it was a great fish out of a small pond that most people only catch pickerels and white perch out of, and many just skunk, so the way she worked the deep rocks with her worm slowly really paid off for her - I wouldn't be surprised if the bass was close to a pond record.

great fish from shore and if I remember correctly way to be patient as this fish hit the t-rigged worm RIGHT at the bank and you maintained your presentation all the way which paid off in helping you land your PB largemouth. Good stuff.

Yeah baby you're a natural angler for sure - great fish! She's just got it in her genes or something guys, she gets out on the water and just hooks into'em. I think that pollock tied for the biggest fish on the boat or it was just a tiny bit shy. It's great to have such a beautiful, wonderful, patient woman to go fishing with. I truly feel blessed. Welcome to the forum and thanks for all the times we've shared out on the water. Here's to many more!!

Man that's the worst! I definitely know what it's like to lose fish - lost three smallies just the other day that might have been PBs. They just wanted to tease me that day I guess. That and I was trying to be cute and was using an ultralight rod with a broken tip lol so that didn't help my hookset ratio I'm sure. Good to hear from you man, hope all is well and you've been out there stickin pigs as usual

Real nice! Way to go!!