I was down in PA for the week and fished a small private pond. The weather was rain and cold but I got a lot of smallish bass on a wacky rigged Yum Dinger, a few on a rattletrap and a lot of hits (but no hookups) on a frog in the slop as the fish were hanging right near shore. Thursday evening I cast a wacky worm next to a drain from a small retention pond and hooked into a big one. I was using light spinning with six pound test so it was a good fight, but when I tried to pull the fish up to the dock my line broke at the hook and I lost her. Ugh.

Flash forward to Saturday morning, I was getting ready to go home so I cast a wacky worm where I'd hooked into that big one. I got a bite and had another nice fish. This time I was able to land it and what did I see as I reached in with my forceps to get the hook out? The Gamakatsu I'd lost two days earlier stuck in her mouth! So I not only got the fish again, I also got my hook back plus a picture of her. Since I don't get a lot of opportunities to fish for largemouth, this is likely my personal best.  

 

Nice Bass

Congrats of the PB

A-Jay

That's a well told tale and a pic of a fine fish.

Nice one.

A good story with a great ending.  Nice catch.

if there's a drain pipe, there's going to be a bass on or near it.  nice going!

Congrats!

The retention pond was full of big tadpoles and I bet those fish wait by that outlet to suck down the ones that flow through.

Thanks for all the comments!