Mrs. Matstone

Trip#1 Well my husband has been trying to get me to do some night fishing for some time now and yesterday was the day. We arrived at the lake and I had no idea what to use to fish at night so I decided to put on a rage tail shad. I figured this bait makes a lot of noise and I was hoping that would help me. At the very least it let me know where my bait was since I couldn't see anything. lol Decided to start off in about 3-5 feet of water, a little "pathway" between some lily pads and a weedbed. A few casts later I heard a splash and felt a tug. I then started hoping that it was a fish on the other end because I could not see a thing and I know their are a lot of ducks around this place. ;D Luckily I was right and it was a fish. I could not have been happier. My first night fishing bass! ;D In the end I found that night fishing was alot of fun but came with a whole new set of challenges too. 1. bats 2. removing a hook you can't see 3. removing loops in your line I am sure there is a few more that I have not yet discovered too. ;D Trip#2 Today my uncle gave me a call and he wanted to do some fishing so we headed to one of my new favorite honeyholes. The sky was very overcast, it was drizzling a little and we were expecting some thunderstorms... PERFECT fishing weather in my book. Started off fishing around the pads and it was not 5 minutes we were there and my uncle had the first fish of the day. I was hoping it was gonna be a good sign.. ;D I believe he caught his on a senko. Not too long after that I was casting out into a small cove in between 2 sets of pads with a space monkey in my newly discovered FAVORITE color for overcast days... JUNEBUG! ;D I fished this behind a split shot and it seemed to do the trick for me again. I still can't believe how well this color works for this particular place. My space monkey fish Little while later the bite died down a little so I changed it up again and this time threw the big anaconda. Upsizing the bait seemed to work because I landed a few more on that as well. Here is one of them. The worst thing about this whole day was I was so excited about my new fish and I could not get the pic of the new fish on the computer so now I had to wait for my husband to get home and have him do it. Only problem was I was not supposed to be fishing. :-[ Needless to say I was busted. :'( I hope you guys have been out fishing too and I also hope your not gonna get in trouble for it like me. ;D

That is AWESOME! Congrats to your girlfriend! ;D

Congrats on your first musky! Nice fish! ;D

Thanks guys we had a lot of fun and the Mr and I ended up having no kids this weekend so we are headed out again today to do some more fishing. Have to take advantage of it every chance we get! Yep I think I am on the hook for another rod for hubby. I owe him. Thanks for the tips. I just read what you said about the screw lock in another thread and that is the way that my husband like to rig the baits. He swears by them.

Nice fish, pics and great report! ;D ;D

Great pics and I love the boat. I floats and that is all you need! ;D

Beautiful place. ;D

Topwater! ;D ;D

God Family Fishing. ;D ;D

Sounds like you had a blast. Good luck with your investigating and be sure to let us know how you do. I love investigating new places.

Well guys it has been awhile and I have been busy with the kids but last week I found out that my mailman has his own pond. This week I fished it. ;D A great little pond and Madison loved it there. So did I. It was back in the woods with not a neighbor in sight. What a place! We arrived and Madison was quickly working her way around the pond with her new favorite lure the Perfect Plastic senko. ;D She really enjoys bass fishing now. To be honest I think she loves hunting for them best. Here she is with the first fish of the day doing what she loves the most. This one is one that I believe she had on but it flew out of the water and came unbuttoned. She was very dissappointed but our mailman came running over and casted out and caught it for her. She took the opportunity to get a quick pic with it. This fish tore her little fingers up. Yesterday Matt and I had the day all to ourselves and we decided to hit one of our new found favorite lakes. I have never seen another person fishing this place yet. AWESOME! I started off fishing a space monkey which I have done really well with in the past at this place. It was not long and I had my first fish of the day. I was very happy with this fish until my husband came around behind me and upped the ante a bit. > Now it was on and after what seemed like a thousand casts I finally had another one. It could have been better but at least it was one more than hubby had at this time. I got this one on the space monkey too. Once again my husband came right back at me with yet another one. > All kidding aside I was very happy for him they were some beautiful fish and we had an awesome day on the water even though the fish were not biting so well today. I love it when you can spend a whole day on the water and have the entire lake to ourselves. ;D One last pic. I found this on the camera and I got him one day when maddie and I were out. Hope you all have been out because the weather is warm and it is high time for a tan which is always my first objective this time of year! ;D ;D ;D ;D If you have not done so yet make sure you take a kid fishing this year! It is the best!!!! Almost forgot.. I made a little boo boo and accidentally took the tip off of my husbands nice custom rod too so I guess you could say that he deserved to get the bigger fish the next day. Sorry honey.

Good pic and nice fish, Congrats! ;D

Thought the tip was coming off for sure. ;D Bassboy Well done. Nice job, Congrats ;D

Nice fish. Congrats ;D

Beautiful Fish Congrats to you! ;D ;D ;D ;D

Nice fish! Congrats.. ;D

Great post and awesome fish Paul. Congrats! ;D

Great post Catt. Thanks for sharing.

Great job on the video guys! ;D

Nice fish Congrats! ;D

Nice fish congrats on your new PB!

Very well said. I think the guy could have had a kind word with him if he had a problem with him fishing there. I think the way he handled the situation was very inappropriate. If he did that to either one of my girls I can assure you that the words I would have with the guy for taking my girls things would not have been very kind and I would be following that up with a good slap upside the head with my rod. I think that this guy is a thief and a bully. > The two things that you should never mess with is a moms kids or her fishing gear. > > I hope that you get your things back.

Great fish and pics. Congrats. ;D

Time wells spent and some great pics too. Congrats. ;D

Congrats on the new rod and the fish! ;D