Fished from noon or so until around 6:00 p.m. Caught 30 or so smallies. Mostly dinks but fun and lots of action. A couple of unusual things, though.

First off, I was fishing and tried a few casts with a football jig and a double tailed hula grub that I had modified with some Mend-It. After one cast I realized that the two tails were missing, probably due to a poor mend job, but none the less, something had to take it off the hook. I changed it out and kept fishing. About 6 or 8 minutes later and at least 40 feet from where I lost the tails I hooked a small smb. Had it about 5 feet from the boat, and I could see it well, the fish I was playing
spit my twin tails out that I had lost. Kind of weird.

A bit later I caught my biggest of the day (pictured). It followed a spinnerbait but did not take so I threw back a tube for it. After weeding through, I think three dinks, it finally bit. Not all that big but I would say, hands down, this was the strongest small mouth that I have ever caught. It made four runs of significance until it finally succumbed.

Shortly after that, I threw my tube next to a dock. Had a bite but missed it. Reeled in really fast and thew back out only to find out that I had a couple of loops in my line so I came up short. Reeled in again and threw way out to the left to rid myself of the loops. Reeled in hastily, threw back to the dock, let it sink gave a couple of twitches and reeled in some slack and, wouldn't you know it, one of those loops never came out but was now a permanent loop in my line tied in a knot. Dang It!

Pulled the loop out past the last guide and then snipped my line. Started to pull the excess line in and it was heavy, lol, fish on! Pulled the fish in by hand which makes the first hand line bass that I have ever caught (pictured with all the loose line in my hands).

Got it by the lip and looked in it's mouth and I could only see the top of my tube, swallowed:( Figured I should kill it and eat it:) Decided to throw him in the live well while I eat some grub so I cut the line at his mouth and tossed him in. So, 20 minutes later I look in and he is doing well, very frisky and hard to grab. I finally fish him out of there, look down his throat, and there was no tube, no tube or jig, All I could see was the very last piece of fish line. That sucker swallowed it down. Figure the hook will quickly deteriorate, and not sure if he will pass the tube, I took the chance and tossed him back. The bleeding was not gill blood and it had stopped.

I bet he wakes up with a gut ache tomorrow.

Anyway, most the dinks caught on a tube bait. 4 or 5 on a sliver spinnerbait, 1 on a hula grub, and one on a Lucky Strike jerk bait. Water temp. was right at 70 degrees. Water crystal clear as you can see in my little video:

http://youtu.be/23Gd7-q91j4

If anyone needs a confidence boost, go to Summit. Anyone can catch fish there, just don't expect any monsters.

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