Let me start by saying that i am SOOO glad to see Summer go! The night started around 6:30PM. I worked a windblown bank by boat, fishing a Black on Black buzz bait. Next thing I know im hauling in fish after fish all between 2-4 pound range. Then as I approach some docked boats, I get a massive top water explosion. After a good 5 minute fight and tussel with the net I land this 6lb 3oz Beauty . Big fish of the night and new personal best of the year, so far.

For reference im 6'2 240lbs

Curious: Is this the same water, the dead horse, you were having trouble with this summer?

yeah ........u da man

cant wait for tommorow after noon

bdog4x4 and jhawk gonna be killin that water

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Curious: Is this the same water, the dead horse, you were having trouble with this summer?

Yes it is!! I appreciate the advice.

yeah ........u da man

cant wait for tommorow after noon

bdog4x4 and jhawk gonna be killin that water

!!!!!

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Amen brotha!

thats sounds like it was awesome. i still have yet to catch a big bass on a buzzbait though. NICE FISHIN !!!

way to go man.  big congrats on that hawg.  

Thanks guys! Im stoked!

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Way to go. Nice fish!  ;D

;D ;D ;D  CONGRATULATIONS!   ;D ;D ;D

Thanks Guys...

Well I should be heading out to the lake In about an hour. Hopefully I can keep the streak going.

Congrats, that is a nice lookig hawg you got there.  

Congrats, that is a nice lookig hawg you got there.

Thanks.

Went out again tonight with Bdog4x4, fished for 3 hours with only a few missed hits. Couldnt set up on anything. I guess you cant win everytime..

That is a beautiful fish.  

Very nice,  Congrats......did I read somewhere the pond was a dead horse?  If so I may have to go shoot a horse.    

During the summer this lake IS a dead horse. But now that things are cooling off, the lake Is coming alive.

Is the lake "dead" every summer?  I know this has just been a real bad summer for bass up here.  Unlike any summer I can remember.  Seems to picking up now though.

Looks like your getting down to business now Hawk, Great Fish

Big O

I live on the dead horse lake, so they say (it begins with W and ends with an N). And yes it is tough in the heat of summer for allot of reasons, but I caught a few nice ones over the summer. You just have to find em. Heres one of them

Is the lake "dead" every summer? I know this has just been a real bad summer for bass up here.

Some years are tougher than others. High temperatures seem to be a chunk of the problem. But, as Krzkev mentions, there are fish to be found. It can be quite a challenge though, and you simply have to suffer low catch rates in your search. (Beautiful fish btw, Krzkev).

I once found a small spring in an otherwise overheated pond. I could feel it with my legs (in a float tube) -there was no other indication. I could catch some really nice bass from that area slowly swimming a worm through. It also held a bunch of big yellow perch.

Some waters are just plain easier than others during mid-summer. This summer, as things slowed in a couple of my favorite waters I spent time in a pond that obviously received enough groundwater to keep it in the mid to upper 70s during the hottest part of the summer. I only had to deal with daily lighting conditions really.

This dishpan pond is not my favorite to fish because there is very little cover or structure to ply. But, the largemouths in it have no places to attempt to hide when hooked, and with temps in the upper 70s, they seemed to have energy to spare. They jumped like smallmouths! Almost every one hooked leapt on it's own, 3 or 4 times, and then bore down like smallies. It sure beat pounding a dead horse, where if I did find a biter, it was apt to just wallow almost pitifully.

I live on the dead horse lake, so they say (it begins with W and ends with an N). And yes it is tough in the heat of summer for allot of reasons, but I caught a few nice ones over the summer. You just have to find em. Heres one of them

Nice fish! My house backs right up to this Lake. I normally fish weeknights and Sundays. Ill keep an eye out for you.