Rain held off all day....till I get to the lake earlier this evening & it started raining real good...Murphy's Law. It really felt like a Fall day today & Fall isn't here for another month!

Brought along my 7' Carrot Stix spinning rod w/ a Cabelas 2008 Prodigy 2000 spinning reel w/ 15 lb braid.

Tried using a Rebel Pop'r first for no love. So I switched out to a firetiger Mann's Minus 1. Good call on my part cuz on the second cast, I felt a real big bump. The line takes off for deeper water while I set the hook. The Prodigy reels drag starts screaming. Horsed in this bass, I'm guessing around 3 lbs:

No other hits on the Minus 1, so I switched out to an evening spinnerbait from Persuader. This thing THUMPS big time in the water & w/ braided line; you can feel it. I ran the spinnerbait on top of some weeds & felt a nice big hit, thinking that I ran into some weeds. Not so, weeds don't try to run for deeper water! I had the drag tighted down just a bit more so I can get a better hook set using the night spinnerbait. This was another fun fight in hand & all bass were released unharmed:

Caught a 3rd bass on a lizard & it happened to be the smallest, so no pics. BUt, I don't have much confidence w/ lizards but have used it lately & have caught some bass. So the confidence using lizards is getting better. I've added the new swimbait add-on (1/8 oz) weights from BPS on a Gamakatsu 4/0 worm hook. I prefer using a weight hook this way than using a bullet weight & hook.

Here's a pic from last week. I used a Snagproof Bobby's Perfect Frog, I haven't used a Snagproof frog in some time since I have more confidence in Spro frogs. This was a classic bass hitting a frog lure w/ the bass flying out of the water to nail the frog. It was awesome to watch & feel the line tighten in mere seconds. Working the frog on top of lily pads & feeling a positive hit from the bass is one of the best things to witness while bass fishing. The bass was around 2 lbs but seeing how it lunged out of the water to get the frog sure looked like it was a much bigger fish. For me, catching any bass in any size is better than not catching anything all day. Yeah, I would love to get a bass over 5 lbs all day, but that happens every so often. I was using my pontoon boat (kickboat) fishing in the shallows. This is my 1 man mean feeshing macheen!!! The pic of the boat is right under the bass pic:

Looks like you had a good day of fishing.  I have been cleaning up with the Manns -1 lately.  I caught 10 LMBs on it in less than 2 hours Sunday morning.

Nice post!

8-)

Nice pics and enjoyed the commentary ...

                   As Ever,

                    skillet

Nice fish! Your little boat is awesome too!!

very goooood!