First, I want to give a shout out to Power Tackle for the rods they make. I just bought their football jig rod for C-rigs and big footballs and it's an absolutely ridiculous rod. I compared it side by side with my NRX 894 and it wasn't even close, Power Tackle by a mile. 

Caught two smallies right at 3lbs on an S-waver and a spawned out largie dragging a lizard that was teetering between 3.9 and 4. I just hit those smallies in a huge school and some bank fisherman showed up right on the point, put down their lawn chairs and have me the "you can leave now" look. You know, even though I had been there twenty minutes before them, but I digress. 

The highlight of the trip was hooking an 8" smallie on a 10XD. The crank bait was still wobbling at full strength with this little fish just getting the life shaken out of it. It was hilarious. 

sounds like a great day off to me!

heck ya

I wish my spawned out fish looked like that one!

23 minutes ago, everythingthatswims said:

I wish my spawned out fish looked like that one!

When your fish and game holds planter trout sacred above all else your bass recover very quickly. 

Way to go!