There is really not much that is more fun than having someone that doesn't fish often out-fish you. She comes back to the lake maybe 5x a year with me and I go back about 3-4 times a week.

 

She caught 3 or 4 this size and about 6 others that were a bit smaller.

Highlight was a 9" 1.3lb Bluegill that I regret not taking a picture of. It had beautiful colouring and after I looked it up was only 2" and .5 lb off of the provincial record.

The Bluegill took a 5" senko on a 3/0 hook.

 

The pictured fish was caught around 5:00 with a Pflueger President, BPS Xtreme 6'6" MH with 30lb braid and a T-rigged Berkley Tequila Sunrise powerworm.

Near Peterborough Ontario

That's a great outing right there!

Wait!! She's cheatin', got a glove on!

 

Your man card has a warning point on it now, LOL. Congrats to your wife!

Awesome fish...good for her!

Congrats on the good catching!

Nice catches my girl loves when she out fishes me happens often I have to admit lol

Rice lake? Congrats to you both.

Wait!! She's cheatin', got a glove on!

 

Your man card has a warning point on it now, LOL. Congrats to your wife!

 

LoL - She gets that from me. I wear a glove 95% of the time now. Honestly don't know why more C&R people don't.

 

Aside from the time I got a treble buried in the heel of hand, I find I get a 100% better grip which allows me to get the hook out way easier and faster and in turn reduces the stress on the fish. Just my experiences in the last 3 years I have been using one.

 

I own my own business and I fish about 3-5x a week and catch on average 10 / outing.  Bass thumb is great and all but when dealing with clients having a hand that looks like a foot that has been sitting in a WWI trench at Passchendaele for a month during the wet season does not always make the best impression.

 

I use a neoprene glove with "grippy stuff" on it , forget where I got it. Seriously try it once and I swear you will notice a 100% grip increase in handling the fish and removing the hook.

Rice lake? Congrats to you both.

Thanks!

 

No just a small lake on the backside of my property.