Hey Everyone,

It has been a while since I have written anything on here, I've just been extremely busy trying to catch up on bills and working as much as possible. Well Yesterday I needed to get my fix of fishing and I only got to go for a couple of hours. I took the ole lady out with me becuase she has been wanting to go to my local honey hole since it is such a "pretty" place. She is one of the girly girls that cant bait her own hook, take off a fish or have the patience to fish with an artificial lure. So I stopped at the store and bought her some nightcrawler and I set her pole up to catch some panfish.

We started fishing and she was swearing that she could catch more fish then I could. ;D ;D Well I started out throwing a buzzbait along the grasslines, knowing that I wasn't going to get a bite, more hoping that she would start catching some fish. Well she wasn't even getting a bite so I switched up and started throwing a 12' firetiger color deep diver that I bought on ebay for $0.01. One thing that I forgot to do is to change the brake on my reel when I started throwing the crankbait. Well on my first cast I got a small backlash and while I was pulling the backlash out, my fiance told me that she was hung up on something. So I laid my pole down and went to the back of the boat to help her. She was just stuck on some grass to once I got it out I looked towards my lure floating in the water and noticed a swirl around my crankbait. So I started ripping the line off my reel to fix the backlash and the fish continued to swirl around it and I figured it was just a small bass. Well once the backlash was fixed I didn't see the fish anymore so I just started reeling up the crankbait I turned the reel about 3x and I saw the monster's mouth open up and attack my crankbait. I didn't realize how big she was until I got her to the side of the boat. She didn't even fight until I tried to grab her out of the water. Everytime I went to grab her she would shake her head and I kept pulling back a lil scared that I would have a hook stuck in my hand... Well I finally got over my fear and grabbed her, when I did one of the hooks stuck in my palm, I didn't even feel it I was so pumped up about catching a huge bass. I finally got her in the boat and I went all Iconelli on this fish hahaha. She went 8.1 not my biggest but my biggest when I had a camera!!!Well Thanks for reading my story and here is a couple of pics!!!

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What a beast. Nice fish and scenery too. I think its cool that you were with the wife too.

Nice bass!!

Tremendous fish Nitro, and great photos of the BIG GAL.....U-Da-Man  

Big O

Great bass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very nice. Makes me wanna give up ponds but I don't know about fishing in the Muddy Mississippi.

Awesome catch, sweet story too. You think you would've caught that fish if you hadn't gotten a backlash/helped your wife?

Joe, great job catching the new PB, that is one beautiful looking bass. It is pretty cool that you got your fiance to go out and enjoy the time with you. That lake is a real nice peaceful setting where you can really enjoy nature. One again CONGRATS!!!!!

Very nice!!!! Beautiful fish, scenery, and story. Still plenty of time left in the year to break this PB!

great!   happy for ya man.

Very nice fish!

Great job nitroman you sure have become the avid poster since I have been gone

Way to go Nitro, nice looking fish!

Thanks for all the replies, it has been a long time since I have posted anything and I see that most everyone is still here and posting. I'm just stuck trying to catch up cuz of this wonderful economy but I will be getting back on here alot more!!!

And Ron btw that fish was caught in the exact area that you got your PB on this lake!

Nice fish man.  Be proud.

Nice bass there man!

Way to go Nitro nice looking  fish you have there.

The fish was also extremly nice an waited till you helped your girlfirend get unstuck.  ;D

memo

Sweet fish, NitroMan. Congrats!

Real nice fish! I see your in Remington, I'm only a few miles from you in Culpeper. Last month I caught two 4lb smallies under the bridge in Remington but nothing worth mentioning since then.

Great fish and story.

Thanks for sharing!!

congrats bro, great fish and cheers

Great post!

That fish is a beauty.

8-)

Excellent! ;D