Kind of a weird day. Too windy to seriously sight fish.... could not find any that wanted to eat the Hud (for quite some time) and so I just kind of bounced around and cursed the wind for a few hours.

Finally, I found a long stretch of bank which was fairly wind protected. Saw some nice sized, but spawned out, cruising Smallies, and stuck them on my micro-light with a fly lined crawler. Caught 3 on that stretch, up to 4.0 lbs.

Then I came across a BIG Northern Largmouth. I stopped to check it out, and here comes 2 more ! I'd say they were all between 8 and 10 lbs. Of course I had barged right on top of them, and they were not going to play no matter what I threw at them.

So I bounced all around the lake for 3 more hours. Finally, I sneak back up on the area with those 3 big ones. I kill the gas motor 200 feet down the shore, and get within about 50 feet with the t-motor. I knew right where they had been, by some shore markers. Fired a long cast just past that point, about 12 feet out, and parrellel to the shore. Started my retrieve, and just as the Hud got to my shore marker... Pow ! Fish on ! This thing freaking ripped too ! Ended up being a nice, healthy 9.3 lb'er :-)

So, I took a few photos, weighed, and released it. After that, I had drifted back "away" from my spot. Cool.... there were 3 of them there earlier :-) I t-motor back to the same spot. Fire out another long cast.... reel.... Pow ! Another fish on ! Turns out to be a nice 8.0 lb'er :-) (sorry, didn't bother with photos of that one)

Right before dark I played with a big, spawned out Smallie on a bed. I might have gotten her to go on the Basstrix... But I was running out of light, and resorted to a crawler :-) She fought better on the micro-light anyway, and went 4.4 lbs.

Another fun day on the water :-)

Peace,

Fish

....and a verticle shot of the same fish:

PS, Note the bottom edge of her tail. Obviously she had been on a bed very recently, but I didn't see any beds in the area the three big ones were cruising. Maybe deeper ? Either way, she doesn't look completely spawned out yet, huh ?

SuperMatt and I were recently discussing how rare it is for spawning bass to come up off of a bed to hit a swimbait, but it seems to happen at this lake fairly regularly.

Wow! Nice fish!

My Lord!!!  What a day and what great Bass Chris! 8-)

Dan

Love it! Good job Chris! I'll give you a call back later today, hope you're headed out there to stick them again.

nice fish

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WOW!!!!!!!!!!! another nice one.You Cali. guys are killin me.I whish i could get to the point where I say:  nice 8.0 lb'er  (sorry, didn't bother with photos of that one)  ::)Awsome,Always enjoy reading your posts and pics. keep'em comming

         Turtle

great job and great fish, you california guys can really make us northern fisherman look bad

Again, awesome looking fish and great pics! Congrats!

That is why Chris has his pic on the front page of a fishing publication!  Great fish!

 My Gosh Man.....you are slowly killing me!!!  

NICE WORK!

If you keep posting photos like this, I might have to move to California.  

Chris is smokin' the big ones out west.....thanks for posting all the great pics day after day!

Nice Fish!!  Which lake was that, Chris?