Misses:

A back spasm in early May kept me out of a boat and fishing off the bank for a month and a half.  Then I had a trip to the ER on Memorial Day to get a hook removed from my palm.  May was not a fun month.  Ended up breaking 2 rods, one was repaired, but it's about 3/4" shorter than it was originally.

Hits:

Broke my PB on numbers this year.  I was able to keep the skunk off of me all year until the middle of October.

My biggest hit was catching a 8+ LM and I lost count on how many 2-3lbers sweet summer fishing.  Learned lots about new lures and fishing equipment thanks to you guys!  I hooked a fish this morning that felt like a tree stump and when it rolled the hook out I almost cried cause I knew that could have been a LIFE TIME catch.  Ah there's always next year.  I live in the south so I'll fish on warm days for crappie and whatever hits my hooks.  Fish on and keep the line screaming!

I have had a pretty good year fishing-wise anyway. Hit my personal best numbers day on the home lake(32) , and biggest fish was 7 1/2. I had friends over a few times and we did well. 

Thats the high points.

This year has been a very hard year financially for us , so I took no road trips, and bought fewer baits etc than any year I can remember. Fished less overall too, and the grandkids only went with me a few times.? Mackayla was with me when I got the 7 1/2 pounder though!? As a result of the lean year, I didn’t grow much with new baits/ techniques- like I had done in previous years.

I also have been trying to catch at least a 9 pound + fish this year, but haven’t yet.( I still have a month and a half !!)

I caught several new personal best, caught new species of black bass and other species of fish that I added to my fishing lifelist. Overall it has been a great year and I look towards to what I will catch the following year.

Misses 

I moved from Erie PA to south Florida on a permanent basis so my smallie fishing has been curtailed. Now I need to travel long distance to get my fix. 

Pluses

Maintaining my health & having fun chasing largemouth more often. Achieved a new topwater PB last week at 9-0 lbs even & just caught a new PB at 27"x19.5" which weighed 11lb-73/4 ounces. 

 

 

Caught another personal best fish and a couple new species added to my fishing lifelist since my last post. This might be my best multi species year in the many years I have fished. There is a couple weeks left this year so lets see what happens.