All of the fishing pics on this site motivated me to get out there and give it a try today. I caught two and missed three, and even got to watch one swim up behind my fast-moving Basstrix minnow and slam it. That literally made my day because I watched the bass dart out from underneath a clump of weeds, swim past my minnow, circle around behind and then nail it. Unfortunately I missed the hook-set (probably because I was watching instead of feeling), but it was nonetheless pretty awesome to watch.
I caught both of these on a 5” baby bass colored Senko, and the bite on both of them was surprisingly hard.
Oh, something else that made my day was when I got cussed by a netter ajoshi for releasing a bass right in front of him. He was watching me fish while bailing water out of one of his boats, and when I caught and shortly afterward released the first bass of the day, I heard a rather loud “aaaeeeesshhh,” followed by some other unintelligible grumblings. I just smiled and kept on fishing. 
I decided to try another spot down near Asan Bay in the afternoon, but it was so windy down there that I could barely cast my lure. I put up with that for about thirty minutes, and since the fish weren’t biting anyway I walked around for a bit, snapped a pic of these nets in preparation and then called it a day.
You picked a nice day to get out there….there was hardly any wind earlier but this afternoon when my daughter and I drove out by Idong, there where whitecaps on the lake. You should have poured gasoline on those nets and set them on fire
Just kidding!!! LOL
LOL Nomad. That particular guy has always been really nice to me in the past, but if not for that they’d still be smoldering! Just kidding!!
Nice, schmice! This is war, Rob, war!!!!
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LOL guys
Good going Rob, the first bass of the year is ALWAYS sweet
Thanks Steve. Like you, I’m going to be bogged down for the next few weeks so it was nice to get out there and do a little fishing first.
The writer and angler Thomas McGuane once wrote:
“We must make holy war on the enemies of aquatic life as we have against gill netters, polluters and drainers of wetlands. Otherwise it will continue to disappear at an accelerating rate. We will lose as much as we have lost and there will be next to nothing; remnant populations, put-and-take, dim bulbs following the tank truck.”
Nice job Rob. I would hope you kissed that bass in front of the Korean net Ajoshi before you threw it back just to piss him off even more. Hell they leave their nets all over the place to rot and pollute the rivers and lakes and then they have the audacity to try and complain because bass are released back. Incredible, soem things will just never change in Korea.
Thanks Tex. No I didn’t kiss it, but I should have.
I’m too much of a “get along for the sake of just getting along” guy at times.