Magnum Bassin': Arizona style
Got back late last night from my yearly Arizona bassin' trip with my best bud, Jesus. I arrived late Friday afternoon and we immediately hit some local lake community ponds. The ponds were getting too much pressure and the fish were all scattered and shy. We managed a few apiece while sight fishing, though. All smallish 12" fish.
The next morning, we got up early and he took me to "secret spot" #1. We had high hopes for this place but it was really tough. I got a solid 3 pounder on the first cast of the day and then we fished very hard for almost nothing until the end when Jesus got a jig fish.
We were done with that place at about noon so we headed to "secret spot" #2 to finish out the day. And boy, that was the place to be!
We pitched jigs into impossible cover and scored some real fatties. We had about 12-15 fish between us for our efforts, all very fat and in a pre-spawn stage. Jesus got one that was at least 7 pounds. I dumped a 5+ and we each had some that were 3-4 pounds plus a few smaller males.
The last morning of the trip was spent at "secret spot" #3. It was tougher there. The water temp was 62-63 everywhere else we had been but it was only about 59.5 to 60.5 at this spot. We did manage to make a good morning of it but the magnums were strangely absent. It was mostly 12" to 2+ pound stuff for our efforts. The JC baits chatterbait was the hot ticket. I got at least 6 fish on it there. Jesus mixed it up and got a few on the jig, and a few on the chatterbait. He also got the only magnum of the trip on a swimming fluke style plastic. It went about 3.5 pounds.
That's it boys and girls, enjoy the pics...
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