mayjeffc
08-03-2012, 12:17 PM
Got the tin boat out after doing my own reseal job. Got on the water at about 7am. Started out on a spot that I lucked out on during the last trip. Threw on the robo purple smoke with a curl tail dropshot rigged and got started. I knew that last time I killed them just outside the weed line so after a couple casts I found the edge and went to work. After a couple casts I had a fish on. He fought hard and then all of a sudden he stopped and my line was hooked on the bottom of the lake. :mad: I let the line go entirely slacked and felt absolutely no fight on the other end other than a tree or weeds. I pulled the boat over and started to pull my line up. As I surfaced my 10lbs of weeds I also noticed 3lbs of an extremely exausted fish buried in a bunch of grass and still very much on the hook:Big Grin: I have never hooked a fish in this fashion before, but was excited to take the first fish of the day. Shortly after my co-pilot pulled one in that was a little bit bigger and just as angry. We cruised around the lake and jumped quite a few spots since we were only gonna be on the water for a few hours. We hit the Bernasconi side with no luck for a bit and then all of a sudden my partner caught his second matching the size of his first and 1lber back to back.:Envious: We then hit the back side of the island where I had another swamp monster hook up in the weeds similar to my first hook up only a little smaller fish. My partner also caught another good one on the back side of the island shortly after. We gave it a few more minutes and called it a day. I could be wrong but it seemed like everywhere we went, we were the only ones hooking up. Pretty fun morning and a great first trip out with my repaired boat. We finally got to get the boats first blood and plan to go again soon.Here are my fish 3662936630 Below are my partners fish.