After reading on Bassresource.com that many fisherman use cranks as part of their Fall arsenal, I tied on my Bandit Pearl/Black 300 series and caught a 22" 5+ lber! After seeing my sucess my buddy tied on a Shad Rap and landed a 4+ lber. Nice day all in all. Didnt start that way... we had a cold front pass thru Missouri Thursday night, followed by a Bluebird sky. We knew fishing would be tough on the 12 acre lake and we tried virtually everything we had. We arrived in Hermann at 6 am and I didnt catch the 5 lb till after 3 o'clock, our first keeper of the day! I caught that beauty fishing the middle of the lake between two brush piles, slow retrieving the Bandit off the bottom. I thought I was snagged for an instant until he took off. Boy, we needed to see that fish the next thing we were about to try was going to be the car keys!

The bite was real good from 330-7pm, I caught (2) 1.5 lbers, on a blue/black spinner with gold Colorado blades, fishing along logs, brush piles and the bank and (1) on a black Zoom Horny Toad. We also caught smaller bass on Senkos, grubs and spinners.

Fun day on a relatively new lake for us, good lesson, dont give up, stick with it.

Congrats - That's a couple of great bass right there.

And that looked like a really nice day to be on the water.

A-Jay

Well done! Nice fish.

Now that's a a good day for anyone, WTG!

Big O

www.ragetail.com

Awesome day...congrats!

Nice Trip and nice fish