hit my favorite pond with my dad after practice this morning, and we were pleasantly surprised ti find that the first wave of spawners had moved up. Right off the bat I spotted what had to be an 8+ on a bed with a 2lb male. I pitched in there several times with my trusty black/blue jig and with a Netbait Paca Craw but I kept spooking the big female so I left that spot. On the other side of the pond I spotted a big female on a bed so I pitched my jig in there and she ate it, I set the hook and she came flying out of the water and made a strong run and a couple more awesome jumps before I pulled her in. She went 6-3 with her big belly full of eggs. After that we fished for a few more hours and mt dad ended up catching 5 with a 3.5lber as his biggest, I caught 4 more dinks and a nice 2.5 on a tube. It was beautiful day to be on the water and would have been even better had we not forgotten the camera > > >

All my fish were caught on a 3/8oz black/blue Persuader jig with a Netbait Paca chunk trailer, a t-rigged Netbait Paca Craw, and a t-rigged BPS Megatube. My dad caught all his fish on a weightless white ZOOM trickworm and a senko.

Zoom worms rule! I remember fishing a phosphate pit here in Central Florida (we kinda snuck in there!) and as I wondered down to the edge of the bank... I remember seeing HUGE and I mean HUGE Bass all over the place on the bed! I couldn't get the big ones to bite for nothing that day.  >

Yeah we ran into that today out on Diascund Reservoir. The fish were sunning themselves in very shallow water, they weren't quite ready to spawn yet, but every single fish we threw to either got spooked or just wouldn't budge.