A few years ago, I was launching at different ponds. Now, I mostly focus on my pond, where I own five acres, and my pal's pond. I think something happened to my pond about a decade ago. Whereas the bass are generally quality fish, I don't catch five, six, or seven-pounders, but I think the big girls are coming...slowly. For example, I caught eight bass this evening. I photographed all of them except for the eighth bass, which was only about 14". It confused me. I couldn't understand why it wasn't trying to rip my rod out of my hand. That's because the first seven tried to do that. Here are they are.

 

The first, the smallest of the first seven:

 

 

This was the biggest lmb:

 

 

This was the biggest smb:

 

 

Here are the others:

 

 

Here's another look at the biggest smb:

 

 

Such fun and only five minutes from my house. I might build a house there one day.  

 

I'm at 1,220 for the year and one more pretty smallie pic to say bye-bye. It's a photo of my biggest smallie again and I like it because it tells a story. You see the bass, the water, how far away the shore is, the sky, some of my gear, and even the rod that caught it. Plus, you see the full color of the bass and it's not digitally enhanced with edit options:

 

☝️sweet

I mean you might as well look into some general ecosystem upkeep 😁

 

What did they all hit?

11 minutes ago, Banned User said:

I mean you might as well look into some general ecosystem upkeep 😁

 

What did they all hit?

 

They all hit a blue Googan crawdad and a green Rage Bug, both T-rigged. I had a buzzbait ready, but I was fishing open water. 

Those are some beasts! I  usually consider a 14" bass a fun size to catch but to you they are dinks! Great pics and report!

@pdxfisher: Well, a 14-incher fought like a dink compared to what came before her. Even my second smallie, which was slightly slender, acquitted herself well, but you and I know that smallies were born to fight.