Had quite the trip yesterday with Branuss04, started the day off by breaking the tail on a 3:16 Armageddon. I shook it off, no big deal, 3:16 will repair it for free. I had just built a pretty cool big bait, the finish had cured the day before. Get it snagged in a bush, yank on the line and it comes shooting back at us in a nice lazy arc. In defiance of physics, it came all the way back and crashed into the bow of Brandon's boat, breaking the bill. Fantastic. I also lost $119.97 worh of baits. Brandon was catching a few swimbait fish and knocked the tip top insert out of his swimbait rod. No big deal, I let him borrow my Loomis 955C. He catches a fish around 3lbs and it gets out of his hands, lands on my 955 and crushes the stripper guide right out of its wraps.

I cut my losses and sit in the drivers seat and take a nap. I am rudely awakened by Brandon calling for the net. I got up very disoriented and stumbled around to scoop that 2lb monster . Now fully awake, im sitting in the seat just relaxing and looking at the bank. This lake is CRAZY low. Lowest I have ever seen it. Throughout the day we spotted multiple umbrellas, lawn chairs, 12 volt batteries, shoes, 5 gallon buckets, wal-mart rods, and trout trolling gear. As brandon fishes along, I notice yet another wal-mart rod about 20 feet up the bank. Huh... its a 1 piece rod apparently. It is covered in silt and dried grass and such, but I asked him to troll us over near it. I flipped a crankbait up the bank and drug the rod down to us. After the disaster that was my day, it was nice to get this! Cleaned up the rod and sanded down the cork, and did a major clean on the reel, which seems to be in pretty usable condition. When I got home, I had one more present waiting that really helped to make the days losses seem a little less depressing.

Loomis GL2 MBR 784C w/ a Shimano Citica 200D. The lake giveth, the lake taketh away, lol.

Win some, lose some..

New gill hard bait looks killer.

d**n dude, sounds like some of my outings.  

Pretty crazy day! At least you ended up with one good catch. That is a SICK bait.

I knew you would like my present....

You are guys after my own heart! I figured I would get a bunch of "sick you found a Loomis?!?!? posts, but no, its all the about the new swimbaits, lol.

Its one slick moving bait! Its been in the pool for about an hour total now, lol. Tomorrow it meets mr.smallmouth.

oh yeah, nice rod too. Nothing beats $ free.99

Fun trip bro. I still don't know how to take it yet. The bite became horrible, so we "trolled" for "trout". The fish we did catch that we worked so hard for were sub-par. We had hundreds and hundreds of dollars of broken parts and lost gear. The lake was stupid low. I just don't know if we can classify this as a good trip or a bad trip yet.  

I found some gear as well. A snoopy rod and reel. A few flashers and dodgers, a jointed rapala, a terminator spinnerbait... oh and I picked up the big fish of the day. Nothing big, but exciting after a day like this. She went 4-15

I was able to manage 7 though

Great story.

Glad you made up for some of your losses.

And how come you let Branuss04 outfish you?  ;D

P.S. Beautiful swimbait, too.

Meh, it's only a GL2... nobody else on this board would have picked it up. :

Meh, it's only a GL2... nobody else on this board would have picked it up.

X2 If it had been a core/glx combo it would have been worth mentioning

Let us know how the BG does today.

finding any kind of loomis always makes the trip worth it.....sounds like it's a good time to scan the shores for lures that need a new warm jacket!

Yesterdays trip was alright. Went to my favorite little dink lake. Ive fished there probably 30 times, and my biggest fish is a 4-15, so suffice it to say that it doesnt really kick big fish.

Stepped off the dock, onto the front of the boat and picked up the gill. Put it out over a deeper weedbed and got it moving. Within a few seconds there were 2, 2lb smallies and a largemouth the same size smacking it around and fighting each other for it, lol. I set the hook and the LM at the boat and missed her, but it sure was entertaining, i was laughing like a little kid.

Ended up with 3 smallies in the 2lb range and missed a bunch of them. I would pull 3 or 4 of them out of an overhanging bush or laydown and they would smack it around and basically make a spectacle of themselves. It was so cool. Once the sun got up, the fish went down, and with all the laydowns in this lake, I didnt want to let that little BG sink out of sight, given my recent bait losses at other lakes, lol. Dropshotted and threw rip baits after that for a dozen little fish or so.

To be honest, and despite paul's evidence to the contrary, when I pulled that bait out, I went "SMALL!!!!". But the way it fishes and the way it moves, I have a bunch of confidence in its big fish potential. All day yesterday I would have little epiphanies of where or when or how that baits fills a perfect big fish gap in my arsenal that I didnt even know WAS a gap!

I WILL be getting more of these in other patterns and sink/float/billed floater versions.

wow, i've got to get into throwing big swimbaits, not four inch basstrix ;D.  I have just noticed how big the fish get where I fish after landing a 7 pounder yesterday.  so two pounders will strike 8 inch plus swimbaits?

Well, yeah, 2lbers will eat 8" baits sometimes, but the gill is 5.5"

Sounds like the bait is pretty sweet, and already kicking fish. Can't wait to get one myself.