Just another largie
September 18th, 2008
I did some half ass fishing last weekend at a local reservoir down here in southern Utah. This reservoir, Quail Creek, is only a 15 min ride from my house and holds some quaility largemouth bass that are fed by tons of stocked rainbow trout, along with populations of bluegill, green sunfish, black crappie, and crawdads.
So let’s just say these bass are well fed and can be hard to catch at times, but when you get into them they are usually very nice in size. The current catch and release state record is from this lake. Which was a 27 inch behemoth. Anyways, I say it was half assed because it was on a typical busy Saturday after sleeping in. Real fisherman don’t sleep in…..lol.
So we got to the lake a bit late and had a slow start in our first little cove tossing around some football jigs with hula grubs. My wife wanted to throw a drop shot since she has more confidence fishing that technique. Of course I had to set it up, so after I got it ready I snuck in a couple casts and just got hammered by the fish in the picture. This fish was just pissed! Made about 3-4 good runs before we netted it.
The handheld was reading 3 lb 14 oz - 4 lbs. Snapped the picture and released it to be caught another day. Ok, we thought the bite was gonna start to pick up but it didn’t. I called my buddy John, who was on the lake in his bass boat wacking fish all morning and found out where he was and bolted over to “his spot” and began to get bites. My wife then hooks into a nice 18 inch largemouth and watching her fight this fish made the whole trip for me. I did have to help her with her drag a couple times though.
Anyway, the fish was hooked pretty deep, but I managed to get the hook out without any damage, but due to how long it took me we released it without snapping a picture. We figured we would catch more. We didn’t. Well I did catch another bass about 12 inches and a couple big bluegill.
We decided to make a move and let John have his spot to himself but that turned out to be a bad move. Stayed about a hour or two more but no bites so the wife and daughter just went swimming. Was a decent day as it aways is on the water. Quaility over quantity this trip. Now if all goes right with this first attempt at a post, the picture will show up. Later…….Bobby D.
