Got my first bass of the season! Couldn't have came at a better time either. It was the first day out with our new boat! Caught her up close to shore around floating vegetation using my trusty $1 black spinner bait from wal-mart with a single colorado blade.

Shortly there after I lost the lower unit in my outboard...so the day could have went better

I saw quite a few bass starting to fan beds on saturday. Water temp was 63 to 64. Caught this one in Governors creek off of the st. johns river.

Nice chunk congrats, sorry to hear about your lower unit, hopefully it is not anything serious.

Well I know for a fact that my gears are gone. I got her home and popped out the drain plug for the lower unit oil and nothing but chucks of metal and milky oil poured out. Engine was running fine earlier in the day, out of nowhere in 30 ft of water I heard a bang and instant loss of power. I have another lower unit that is interchangeable with mine on another outboard in Tampa, just have to make it down there to get it.

Hoping to get quite a few more of these chunks over the next few months!

Nice fish!  Sorry to hear about your boat.