I have just got these photos from my bass club website of the boat ramp area at Andong…it’s a sad sight. I hope the water levels start to rise soon!
Archive of entries posted on May 2009
Quantity
While yesterday was all about quality, today was about quantity, which made for quite the fun morning.
I started out throwing spinnerbaits and VibraShocks in different colors but only caught this bass on a bluegill-colored VibraShock. I did, however, manage to donate two more lures to the river. Once I got tired of losing throwing spinnerbaits and VibraShocks, I switched over to 4-inch Senkos and that’s when the fun really started.
I caught at least 15 bass but unfortunately, they were all that size or smaller. The problem is that the smaller bass really tend to tear the Senkos up, and I went through about 10 Senkos this morning. But it sure was fun to catch that many fish in 1 1/2 hours.
Finally!
I went back out to the river this morning before work, to the same spot where a bass broke my line not once but two times last week. And yes, I did replace the 6-pound test line with some new 10-pound test over the weekend and it’s a good thing I did, or I’d be writing yet another sob story.
Once again, I had no bites till close to 6:15 or so and that’s when I caught the above fish, which I thought was a pretty good start for the week. But then, things got a lot better:
Both of the above pics are of the same fish…I cast my 4-inch Senko (black with blue flakes) over to the right, close to the rocks and as soon as the Senko started sinking, that bass grabbed it and took off. Once I set the hook, I knew I had a decent bass on but the trick was getting the fish to shore without another line break. Once I got the bass close to shore I saw that the hook was in the very corner of its lip, just hanging by a thread….one more hard run or a shake of the head and I’d be writing another “the one that got away” story but luckily the gods were smiling on me today because as you can see, I finally caught that elusive 50cm bass. It doesn’t matter what happens the rest of the week, or hell, the rest of the year, because now I’m all set 
LOL, I was so excited that I forgot to weigh it!
That’s What I Get For Being Lazy
Do you remember how I had a fish break my 6-pound test line yesterday and how I said I was going to restring that reel once I got home? Well, once I got home, I was too lazy to do it and left it for the weekend. Which would have been a good plan, except that I went back out again this morning, with the same rods and reels. From 5 till around 6:30, I didn’t have a single bite but at 6:30, it was like someone had turned on a switch and the bass got active. I was reeling in my Senko when I felt a light tap and then the line slowly started coming towards me so thinking it was a dink, I set the hook. No dink…the fish immediately started stripping line (I have my drag set so that a 1-pound fish can barely take it out if it makes a good run). I was trying to reel the fish in but it was continuously taking out line and finally, I had the fish to within 2 feet of shore and it came to the surface, rolled, and took off…SNAP! 
Guess who will most definitely be restringing their reel this weekend…
I ended up catching 5 bass, all within 15 or 20 minutes of each other, all on 4-inch Senkos, black with blue flakes – no luck with the spinnerbaits this morning. Close to 7, it started getting crowded out there with carp fishermen (it’s a Korean holiday) so I made a few more casts and headed in to work with a mental note to put some decent line on this reel of mine. Like I told Rob, if you look up the word ‘lazy’ in the dictionary, you will see my picture prominently displayed 