So I gave her one She was more shallow than I normally fish, 6ft or so, and after the bite and hookset, she came straight to the surface on a Tear! We did the 'Under the Boat DANCE' for a WHILE before she finally lost a little steam and I eased her up to the side where I could land her. Since the bait (RAGE Bug) was firmly planted in her top lip with a 6/0 hook, I decided it best to reach under her belly and gently lift her in.

 

As soon as I brought her up to me, she relaxed and gave me a Big O Hug and a fresh slime coat    That's OK because she deserved pay a little payback at me back for the tussle. We said our fond farewells and back to her lair she swam... I have to say, she was a GREAT DANCER

 

     

Nice fish. Did you get a chance to weigh her?

Son!  Get you some!  Makes me shivver!   One word, GORGEOUS!

 

FL

That is one nice looking healthy bass!

Nice one, Big O!! Sounds like she may have been up looking for a place to get busy! That Bug is tearin' 'em up!!

WOW nice fish!!  A little rain never hurt anybody!

Ouh...That's a fatty!

Beautiful bass!  We just got some more snow here in Illinois,close to an inch.

Awesome fish as usual.

Nice one, Big O!! Sounds like she may have been up looking for a place to get busy! That Bug is tearin' 'em up!!

Rub it in some more Shane! 

Dang. Gorgeous. I'm tellin' ya. Virginia is callin' yer name!

March quota....... check!      Beautiful fish. 

Thats awesome looking. Someday I will have that same dance with a big ol large mouth.

Man that's a beauty!!! Keep slaying those big girls out there Big O.

Big girls need love too and you are over there getting your gigalo on month after month lol

what a beast,  nice catch Big O!

Nice fish. Did you get a chance to weigh her?

Nope Xyndifor, didn't get her weight... she would've slapped me   

AK-Jax, I'd love to fish Va sometime... got a lot more friends their too

Thanks to the rest of you as well, Ckd out O.H. Ivey a day this week and only the smaller models wanted to play... Water is 46ft low there and mainly used the time to mark waypoints of low water reveals... I call it doing HOMEWORK   

I'll be doing that in a couple weeks at my local reservoir once the ice is gone. It seems like the water level is always really low in the early spring. It gives me a chance to learn something new though about the water I'm fishing in. It's a small reservoir and I mainly fish from the shore so I could use every little detail about the bottom I can get but it worked out well last year so I can learn more this year and try to get a bigger one this time. I'll have to check out a new one too. I'm hoping it's low as well. It would be nice to see where the drops are in this shallow pond where the lily pads (almost completely covering the back section) are growing in the summertime.