Well on the upside, i got to fish Friday, Saturday and Sunday so you can't beat that!  

Friday, went to the pond near the house.  Wanted to try out 2 new rods one of which was the Poison Adrena 6'6"M I picked up used on TT and other was a brand new Dobyns DX HP Spinning rod.  Hooked into a pretty good one right off the bat on the Adrena (pic below) and just like the other days last week, it was all wacky senko....  This fish was guarding her fry from what i could tell after i caught it as i saw A TON of the little guys swimming around!  Working my way on around the pond, saw 2 cruisers maybe 2.5-3.5lb so i tossed the worm in, felt the tap and line starts running sideways so i go to set the hook and heard a god awful SNAP.  I hesitantly looked and sure enough, rod broke between the 5th and 6th guides from the tip!  My heart was and still is broken....  of course i bought it second hand so have no receipt or anything of that nature   went on to catch 4 other fish, all wacky senko, all on the new DX HP which is phenomenal.

Saturday, hung with the wife in the AM and headed out in the afternoon to a place that's choked in lily pads, so i busted out the frog!  Hadn't been there for 5 minutes and had a slurp strike on the white spro popper frog.  was using the DX 704c and 40lb braid and got what felt like a solid hookset on it.  i had the drag nearly locked down and this fish was stripping drag like a tow truck, i knew it was a good fish.  then it decided to show itself and i had a mini heart attack.  no doubt about it this was my new PB, i'm conservatively going to say it was every bit of 6lbs, but if it had gone 8 i would not have been the least bit surprised.  right after showing itself, it took another run and headed straight for a logpile.  about that time, my line went slack and frog floated to the top of the water   got about 4 or 5 more short strikes on the frog for the rest of the day, but couldn't manage to land a single one.  I'll be thinking about "the one that got away" for a while to come!

Sunday, the wife decides she wants to take the kayaks out on the Chatahoochee...  i shot up, got the gear and had the yaks loaded before she could even change her clothes!  she doesn't often want to go so when she does, it's do or die!!!  grabbed 3 rods, spinnerbait, wacky worm and jig.  right off the bat, i had a nice one follow the spinnerbait back to the kayak.  the water was low and clear so i could really see pretty good.  just a little further down a whack on the spinnerbait, but didn't land it.  then a nice run of trees was coming up and i was running the spinnerbait on the backside of each one and hooked into a nice little shoal bass, about 1.5-2lb.  It had 2 of his buddies following him so i unhooked him quickly and tossed back, but didn't catch the others.  i was moving quickly and wanted to catch those others so no pic, but it was a beautiful colored shoalie!

 

so ups, caught some fish and fished 3 days straight....  downs, broke a sweet rod and lost a monster....   but that's fishing i suppose!

 

nice pond bass

 

ugly site....

 

frog city!

That suckes to snap a rod like that.. I've had the exact same thing happen and your thinking to yourself "o no!!!!"

14 minutes ago, fisherrw said:

That suckes to snap a rod like that.. I've had the exact same thing happen and your thinking to yourself "o no!!!!"

well that and a few words that would get starred out on here pretty quickly **********!!!!!!!!!

2 hours ago, buzzed bait said:

well that and a few words that would get starred out on here pretty quickly **********!!!!!!!!!

Yup!

I feel ya, snapped a rod several weeks ago.  Sounds like a great weekend! 

Man lost your PB & broke a rod too. That's definitely a rollercoaster ride. At least you know where your pb lives. Good luck on the second go around. 

So, um...is that pond with the pads close by?  I think the GT nerd may have to come show you how to get it done

Whoa - what a bittersweet weekend.  Hopefully, we'll be seeing that "got away PB" posing in a picture with you soon.

Tough luck and good work  

 

Good going on the catching, and bummer about the rod.

It's never ideal to break rods and lose PB's, BUT at least you see the silver lining in having the opportunities to get out. Plus, some wifey time while on the water. Good stuff!!

BTW: That Lake pic is like dangling a bag of rocks in front of a crackhead!

Disclaimer: I apologize to any crack addicts.

 

Nice! Sucks about the rod though...