LOL, now that we have that out of the way, let’s get to what turned out to be quite the interesting and eventful day. But first, I lied. I said that I was only going to take a crankbait rod today, but when I went down to the car last night to bring the other rods into the house, I had a vision of me being out there today, chucking crankbaits around for hours and hours and having nothing to show for it except sore elbows so needless to say, I ended up bringing the entire arsenal
. I remembered to set the alarm clock last night and like Monday, I was up at 3, on the road by 3:45 and on the water by 5 and once again, it turned out to be a beautiful day, weather-wise. No wind at all until sometime around 1, and then it was just a light wind at that and for most of the day, the skies were overcast. While I was setting the boat up and getting the stuff out of the bag, I had the net in my hand but I thought “Ah, leave it here, it’ll just take up more space in the boat and you probably won’t need it anyway.” Another wise decision by yours truly and yes, I’m being sarcastic.
I started out fishing the same area where I do my EMB, and on the very first cast, I caught a bass.

This one, actually. Three casts later, I caught a dink, and I moved down about 25 yards to a point I like to fish. I threw my 4” Senko towards shore and as I was reeling it in, I felt a light tap. I waited a few seconds and when I felt another light tap, I thought it was another dink and set the hook only to find out it was no dink at all but a Big Momma. I fought the fish and slowly brought her away from the rocks and closer to the boat and that’s when it hit me…The NET WAS IN THE CAR, and Ty wasn’t there to lip the fish for me. I got the fish all the way to the boat and then I made the colossal mistake of thinking the fish was tired out so I grabbed the line with one hand, intending on pulling the fish close enough for me to lip it with the other hand. Unfortunately, the bass had other ideas and as soon as it was about 10 inches from the boat, it made a run under the boat and the line snapped
. And yeah, I felt like a real dumbass for making such a rookie mistake. I was bummed out enough to send Rob a 5:30 text letting him know what I had just done, but I didn’t really feel that bad, considering I had already had 3 bites in the first 30 minutes and one was a Big Momma to boot…I had a feeling it was going to be another good day.


The above two pics show the type area I was fishing today and all the bass were holding super close to shore, right up against the rocks.
And it was another great day…today I kept count; 29 bass total. Now, most of them looked like these fellas:



But I did catch a few that were decent enough:





I know, I know, “what about the crankbaits?” you ask. Fair enough…I threw crankbaits for an hour and a half with not a single bite and let me tell you, that got old fast and it was all I could do to stick with it that long. Had I only taken a crankbait rod, it would have been a really short day. Like Tim said in his comment yesterday, stick with what works. And today, the only lures I caught fish on were 4” Senkos (black with blue flakes) and a 10.5” Zoom ‘Ol Monster worm. I also tried jigs, crankbaits, Big and Fat Ikas, drop shot, and a black 7” Zoom worm.
Oh and check this out…on my way back to the ramp, I was cruising along, having a relaxing smoke when I saw something swimming in the water, heading right at the boat.


That sucker actually came at the boat right in the middle and looked like he was going to try to come aboard on the left side! I cranked the trolling motor so that I would scoot past the snake because, well, I just don’t think there would have been enough room in the SS Netcutter for me and a snake. And me not wearing my life vest. LOL

And, I took another pic of a bird
I have to say, so far this week has been most excellent. I’ve taken the boat out 2 days; the weather was perfect both days, and the bass were cooperating quite nicely. I got another solid 8 hours of fishing in today, and the only reason I quit when I did was because I had covered a lot of water today and I was worried that my battery was getting low. Had I known the fishing and weather was going to be that good, I would have brought the second battery and instead of typing this, I’d still be out there, fishing. You know, I could get used to this quite easy and I know what I’ll be doing every day it’s not raining once I retire. Yes sir.