The last few weeks have been semi slow I went out today for about 2 hours (this evening) and it started out slow was throwing a brush hawg lizard and a KVD 1.5. I couldn't buy a bite on the soft plastic today after about 40 min I got the first fish at one of our main sports...the weeds are growing up so it was hard to fish that sport so i moved to a tree line across from our house that had produced the last 2 big fish (got a 4 pounder and lost one about 23 inches long). I was throwing the KVD in a stretch about 30 yards and got 2 smaller bass then about 5  yards from a channel I had a 5 pounder (on scale) grab it and strip off drag thought it was a catfish at first but it was a bass.  It was dark and the bugs were getting bad so I came in. The last trip I was with a friend in about the same spot and hooked one on a plastic worm and he ran at the boat I started cranking thinking oh well this is a 14 incher...about that time he stopped and came flyout of the the water and spit it out he was about 23 inches....my friend stood there with his mouth open..I just shrugged my shoulders...

Congrats on an awesome fish!