Made it over to Fork with my son for a few hours before it got too hot today. The fish wasn't huge, maybe only 4lbs., but my first on a Mattlures bar fish. It was a hoot as this fish hit the bait about 4 feet from the boat right at the surface. I was slowly swimming the bait over hydrilla right in front of Fisherman's Cove where the Bass Resource crew stayed back in the spring.

Now THAT's how you break in a new lure.  

Nice fish.

Way to go BH!  

(Fluke and I both fished for that one in March but decided we'd leave it be so you could come catch her in July  ;D ,lol)

Just by looking at that lake I can tell it has good fishing. I love when bass hit the bait that way as well.

The first of many!!!  WTG bh!

Dan

Bighead, how do you like it? Did you have several bites and misses or was this the only fish you caught on it? Also, what kind was it? Sry for the ?'s but I was thinking of getting one of their bluegill lures lol.

nice man.  still trying to bring in my first one.

Thanks fellers, I hope to get a chance to spend some hours with these Mattlures.  ILfish, I liked it real well.  One problem with being a big old boy (6'3"/330lb.)is the fish look small in the pictures.  This one was a really football, short and fat.  The fish inhaled that lure.  Had to use pliers to get it out of it's gullet!  It was caught on the barfish pattern.  A barfish is a little guy in some of the local lakes that looks like a small white bass with a yellow belly.  They follow schools of threadfin around and so do big bass.  Folks on Fork have reported catching the barfish on jigging spoons during the summer only to have a big bass grab them on the way up.  I only threw the bait for only a few minutes before birdnesting the braid on my swimbait rod and putting it down.  I've thrown the bluegill some and know it's going to get me a pb one day.  Looks too real in the water.  Caught a few more on the spot remover.  big