I decided to fish a smaller, city lake today, the one where I caught my PB smallmouth, in hopes of finding another monster brown bass. Those hopes were pretty quickly dashed when I pulled up to the ramp and saw the pea soup green water from a heavy algae bloom. I pulled a couple extra casting rods from the locker, realizing I was more likely chasing largemouth now. I started not far from the ramp, flipping brush piles with a homemade finesse jig on my 7' 3" MH/XF St. Croix Victory with a 8.1 Tatula SV TWS and 15lb Tatsu. I made a pitch to an outside bush that hungup a bit and I pulled it back pretty quick when a large fish, I thought, ate it at the surface. Well she either spit it as quick as she ate it or completely missed it because my hookset came up empty. The day was a grind, I considered going somewhere else many times but it seemed like about the time I'd decide to leave, I'd catch another fish. Well once I'd finally about pulled the trigger to leave, I figured I'd be doing myself a disservice to not fish that little bank where I'd missed the big one, one more time before I left. My second pitch into the brush, I shook several times in the center of a big pile, pulled it out to the edge and shook it repeatedly before I felt a hard "thump". She was on the surface in a hurry, wrapped on a thin limp. Once she came loose, the fight was on. Water temp was 54*, so she had lots of life. Almost got me in the trolling motor before I was able to slip the net under her. One of very few fish this size I've caught in Kansas that didn't come from the power plant lake, and my biggest jig fish ever and biggest fish ever on a bait I made at 7.24 pounds. 

 

Great Bass @Bluebasser86 !

Really Pretty

Congrats

A-Jay

Way to go Clayton.  Congrats on a really good one.

Congrats! That’s a monster. I think I have two similar jigs that you made.........

Congratulations 

Great Job!!

 

 

 

 

Mike

Nice work! 

Nice! That’s a good looking jig, and a good looking fish.

Sweet!

Great fish on your jig. Awesome!

WTG. Pretty bass, Congratz.

That's what I'm talking about!!

Great story, persistence pays off ?

Awesome fish and great story! “One more cast” has kept me fishing for hours past when I should of left, but never paid off like that. Beauty of a fish 

Well done!

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Way to get it done. 

Nice!!

Congrats, super nice fish. 

Nice, nice bass! 
 

“One more cast”.  It’s never just one lol.  

Nice looking bass!

Nicely done!

Boom shaka laka, ju ju ju giant bass !