Third trip this year, and the first time out with warm weather.  I fished a pond from the shore and after about an hour I caught this 4-01lber on a 1/2 ounce chrome w/ blue back rat-l-trap.  It was bright and sunny, but the water only had about 1' of visibility. 

 

nice fish 

Great fish! The first one is always the hardest...it's all downhill from here.

Congrats.  Chrome variants of Bill Lewis' Rat-L-Traps sure do a great job enticing bass.

Congrats on your first 2016 bass!

I'm next, I hope!!  Renewed my permit
to fish on my favorite reservoir, just need 
to find the time to get out.... Alas....

Nice way to start the year

nice!

very nice fish!

Nice fish!!!

That's a solid first fish of the year!

Nice start!

Thanks!  This was on a new pond also, so I guess I hit one of my goals this year of fishing new bodies of water.

Congrats

You're one up on me . .

A-Jay

 

Nice, solid fish Bankbeater, hopefully this is just the beginning of a good year