My buddy, Rick, and I took our last trip put bass fishing for the year and till he comes back from Afgan. (he welds Striker Trucks) And so we first started out the evening trolling for trout while we got our bass gear set up. Caught a couple trout decent size. I started out Bottom fishing with a Brown Stick worm on a J hook while he top water fished with a Minow (just to see which was workin better) He caught two 2 pounders and I had notta. So after the sun was starting to go down I decided to mnake some noise and threw a Black jitterbug with yellow eyes and I was casting up against some cattails and on my second cast back I was just cranking back when BAM Had a HUGE and i mean HUGE topwater hit and I fought this fish for bout ten minutes really playing with her and she was givin a fight! I reeled her in and 7 1/2 lbs and 21 inches long. Are bass Usually this long?? By the way I just started Bass fishing last year. I started fishing fromt he shore when I was 5 and then stopped for awhile then My neighbor rick got me real into it with bass fishing and salmon fishing and what not he even gave me his 12 ft boat and all the gear I need. Thanks Bear.