thanks for sharing! i enjoy reading post with pics as well so i always add pics whenever i decide to make a post! and those largies aren't too small at all, i bet they were still a lot of fun to catch! i caught a largie the other day that was smaller than my 5 inch senko, now THAT is small lol :)

Nice report I to enjoy seeing pics in reports. At least your getting out. Is tanwax an electric motor only lake.

Nice job Arnie! Way to get after them largies. Cajun, Tanwax is not a restricted lake, so it's best to hit it before all the watersports folks hit the lake. It's not a big lake, so there's not many places to hide from the wake.

You're doing better than several guys I know. Maybe I'll start trying now. Good work.

Thanks everyone, lol, I feel special, haha. Yeah, not too small but not too big. They were a pound even and 1 pound 4 ounces, and, actually, they both gave me all they were worth. The first, the smaller of the two, was in the pads and that was a struggle and a mess. Basically, I had to take the boat to him and reach in and grab a handful of pads to get him out of there. The second surprised me, he just turned his head down and swam and then he got into some pads, as well, but he was, pound for pound, as strong a fish as I have caught yet. A lot of that is the pole, though. My baitcaster reel is on just a 7' Lamiglass Kokanee Special, so it is a hair light and I fear the day that I hook a 5 pounder on it, but for the little ones, it makes them all feel like they are 8 pounders, lol,haha, like I would know, never caught an 8 pounder:)

if you hook a big one, just loosen your drag a little bit and let it take some line to tire itself out! your rod should hold up fine!

lol, not meaning anything by this, but, I fished for Steelhead since 1978, or so. I am pretty accustomed to being overwhelmed by a fish.