First spinnerbait fish of the year, just under Nine Pounds, Meow
Been thinking about all those weeds down at the Lagoon and thought that a buzzbait or spinnerbait could be the deal.
So went Saturday evening for a little prefish, ended up fishing a jig for a couple bass, no toads, saw a guy I know, Craig, besides Butch, he owns the lagoon, well saw that he was tossing a blade so I tied on a cheap buzzbait thats been rusting away in the box, no blow ups, but figured some things out.
Ran into Craig at the dock and he had a donkey in his livewell and didn't have a camera, so took a couple pics of his fish and talked to him about what he was doing.
So with info in hand I went back tonite to close the lake, I messed with a buzzbait for a while then got out the spinnerbait and got to work, i was tossing it to the outside weed lines and slow rolling the bait and on the 3rd or 4th cast It got slammed, Yeah, heavy fish, glad i had put the net out on the deck before I started, word of advise for the lagoon, always have the net ready.
Sure enough, the fish was pulling hard but felt werid, saw the fish at deep color and said wow it's big, but as it came up for the final time I was bummed , Catfish.... was toad of a differnt kind, stupid catfish eating a spinnerbait....
Well while I had him in the net making a mess of my carpet on the deck, I got the camera out and scale, fish was just under 9 pounds, sorry but the picture I took had a big sun glare in it... I tried to release him but it just floundered on the weeds, so i put it in the livewell to recuperate, and tried to strighten out the bait but it was all busted up.
So got a new one out rigged it and ended up getting a two pounder bass, took a pic and tossed him back, well the clock was ticking, I ended up missing two others, when I got back to the dock I thought about cutting the catfish up but ended up letting it go, catfish are tough critters so back he went.
and I'll be back tomorrow either to the upper or back to the lagoon to fish the spinnerbait somemore...
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Originally Posted by Fire Ball
