Just caught my First Largemouth Bass! New to the sport and have been fighting all summer long without any success. Went out hour before sunrise this morning and I threw rattletraps, top water frogs, senko, spinners, buzz bait and nothing. So I got in my bos and pulled out the new tube-x and rattles and t-rigged it. Fish on! buried me in the weeds! no biggie! threw it again same area. Hit 2. buried me again. getting upset. threw a few more times and got one and kept him above the weeds and he went airborne and lost the hook. Deep breath and remember all the forums on here and all the articles I read and Glenn videos I watched. All lost to my error. BAD Hook sets. Threw again. Fish on! reel down and set.  Landed! Woo Hoo! Finally! only a cpl pounds but I was as happy as if it was a record size fish! Glad all the reading and video watching finally paid off. There was about 10 others around and a few of them came over and asked what I was using because nobody could get even a bite. I have a new found love for tubes.  

Congrats on your first Bass !

 

That's one you'll Never Forget.

 

And btw - that's your PB as well.

 

 

A-Jay

Congrats on your first.

Congratulations! I remember my first, and then the obsession started. . .

Great job. First of many.

Congrats. You are ahead of the curve because you actually had to figure out how to catch your first bass. Many peoples first bass is caught by accident while fishing for something else & they have no way to duplicate what they just did (or what to do in order to catch another).

Hope all of the future ones bring just as much joy.

Ok, you caught the bass. Now, who's really hooked.

Hootie

Thank you! It's been an obsession trying to get one Lectric. And I'm the one who really got Hooked  this morning Hootie! Best part is I can set back and really enjoy it now that all the pressure of catching one is off of me.

Congrats, hope you catch plenty more!

Hey man congrats. I just started fishing in June and it is extremely addicting but worth it. I think of it as something that I can now do for the rest of my life and I'm so happy to have found bass fishing and this forum. I learned everything from this place. Today was my best day yet I caught 2 5lbers and there's no better feeling than landing a big one.

Good job adapting and overcoming to land your first bass! 

Great job - you hung in there and made it pay off.  Congrats!