Last night was a fluke....a chance....and gave me my personal best. 

I had left work a bit early, and was sitting on the couch watching Andy Griffith when my wife came in the living room and said dinner would be a while and I should go fish for an hour or so since the weather the rest of the week would be suspect. I mentally slapped myself for not realizing that, loaded up a finesse rig, and hit a small neighborhood pond about 2 miles from my house. 

I almost never catch anything big in this pond, a couple 3lb-ers over the years, and scores of smaller fish. I almost strictly use a Ned Rig since it's about the only thing that catches anything here. 

I threw my first cast, felt a small tick, set the hook and had a cute little dink on the line. 

I casted a few more times with nothing resulting, but then my phone rang and it was my mom, and I always answer for mom. As I was talking, using my shoulder to hold the phone to my ear, I cast once more in a small pocket of the lake. I was talking, so I didn't get the lure moving, it just sat there a while. I was keeping an eye on the line, 18lb Gliss in yellow, which is so thin and tiny that it's tough to line watch it, even in yellow color. 

I hung up the phone and decided to move to an area that had a culvert. As I reeled the slack up, I noticed my line was taking up, but not moving in the water, so I gently reeled in case there was a fish on the other end. I felt resistance, I gave er' a sharp gunshot hookset since the Ned Rig is a pretty tiny hook. Crap....it must've been a log or rock under the water, but wait, it's moving. I reeled up any additional slack and keep reeling. My drag started peeling out bit by bit and I thought well, I have a carp on the end. Then I see the bass slowly surface and lazily thrash on the surface, it's the biggest one I've seen in person. The fight was on. 

I fought her (I assume it was a her) for about 60 seconds, praying frantically that my line wouldn't break, or the hook bend out. I finally landed her, and my fist easily fit in her mouth with room to spare.

She thrashed a good bit, but I got her on my scale for a few seconds before she shook off of it, and she came in at 6lbs - 3oz, beating my previous best of 4.5lbs by nearly 2 whole pounds.

Needless to say, the wife got credit for the catch since she convinced my lazy butt to take advantage of a nice early spring day!

Sounds very entertaining!...but wheres the pic?

The old "accidental deadstick" strikes again!!

Congrats!!

Congrats on the PB!

Jeff

1 minute ago, 00 mod said:

Congrats on the PB!

Jeff

This

R/ Chris

Congratulations

Nice!

Nice!!

Congratulations!  Cool story.  It's a good thing your Mom called and you answered.  

of course your mom would say if you hadn't answered you wouldn't have caught the fish.... and we all know moms are ALWAYS right!!

2 hours ago, Joey Bass said:

Sounds very entertaining!...but wheres the pic?

There we go!

I was going to start out by saying how well you wrote that story. I could visualize the whole thing as if I were there...but then I saw the "BassResource.com Writer" title. Makes sense. Congrats

That's a solid, nice-looking fish!  She definitely looks like a 6 lb'er. 

 

                                      CONGRATULATIONS

                                                 

Nice fish

Gorgeous fish! Digging the setup too BTW 

 

Don't you know the Ned Rig only catches dinks?! 

 

Good looking fish

Congrats on a nice catch.

Nice bass! Good going!

Congrtats on your & the wife's new PB.  

Good work Phil

Great looking bass! 

So your wife had to get you away from the TV and your Mom had to teach you the value of fishing slowly? 

PB are hard to forget. Congrats, nice bass

Pretty Bass ~

PB's are Always a Blast

Congrats

A-Jay