I went Friday night to the local pond and saw a couple fish up shallow and worked them all night with no luck.  I went back Saturday morning determined to catch them.  When I approached the area, I could see the little guy from yesterday and then I saw this dark colored torpedo cruising by and realized that was the big girl….  So I spent a while trying to catch them.  No scales or ruler, but not even mad about it this time!

After much trial and error, I finally caught the smaller guy to commit to a Missile Baby D Bomb…. TWICE.  I caught him twice on that same bait, but 2 different colors.  He would pick up a worm, pick up a jig, but not commit until he saw that baby d bomb and he inhaled it!  After catching him twice I decided to ease around the pond and let the area settle down.

 

 

I came back an hour or so later and was determined to catch the big girl and more so, determined to catch it on a newer combo that hadn’t yet seen a fish!  I had some 40# braid with a 15# floro leader tied to a Siebert’s Finesse Jig in PBJ Smoke color.  What finally got this girl to eat though, was the Damiki Air Craw trailer I added, if you haven’t seen them, check them out.  I watched her pick it up and take off and when I set the hook she got ill!  The new Cumara 6’8”MH and the Chronarch Ci4+ handled her like it was nothing!  These selfies aren’t doing it justice, but this fish was a butterball!

Awesome day out even with the wind ripping.

 

Couple of nice ones ~

 

Congrats

 

A-Jay

Always a good feeling! Nice job.

Nice ones. good job!

Awesome catching! !

Nice fish! I can't wait to start bed fishing.