Headed out on Wednesday after work. Water temp. was up around 53-53.8. Seen many largemouth. Seen a group of 10 or 12 or maybe even 15. Seen some others, as well. Threw everything that I had tied up on my 6 rods at them. Got two bites on a 10" Powerteam ribbon hinge worm but no hook ups. Fished from 4:45 until 7:25.
The following day I decided to go back and tone the bait down a bit from 10" worms and big, huge jigs to a nice little enticing morsel to see if that would help. At the dock, before I took off on Thursday, I tied on a 2/0 hook and put a 4" green pumpkin or watermelon or something Senko on, wacky rigged in hopes that would do it.
Motored to where I had seen all the fish the night before and threw that senko out there. In one hour I caught 7 LMB. One was 1 1/2 pounds, one was 2 1/2 pounds and one was 4.0 pounds. The other 4 were all 3.1 to 3 1/2 pounds. All fish caught on two senkos. All caught in a 20 foot circle. All caught after the bait hit the bottom of the lake.
I seen one come out from under a dock and look at my senko as it hit bottom. I figured I'd give it some movement but when I did the fish stopped moving. I let it sink and the fish moved closer. I wiggled it again and the fish backed off. So, I let the bait fall to the bottom and let it rest motionless. The fish went right after hit and sucked it half way in with the side of it's mouth. I waited, then it sucked it the rest of the way in and I set the hook, solid.
7 fish hooked and 7 fish caught all in the same manner.
I threw fish number 6 into the livewell so when I caught number 7 I could get a pic of the two together like in my other pictures with earlier fish. But, when I caught number 7 I had forgotten that I had one in the livewell. I took a cell phone pic of it and threw it back, a nice solid 3.5 pounder. Later that dumb fish in my livewell made a big old splash and scared the heck out of me. I had to open it up to check, yep, I had a fish in there I had forgot about. It was just so frantic, though, I lost track.
After that initial hour, I moved around to try some other spots but no luck. I came back to where I had caught all the fish and made a couple of casts and decided I would call it a night. I was kind of tired of all the action, haha, true story. So, I released number 6 at that time over a weed bed and took a short video of it with my camera disappearing into the weeds. Here is a link of the stupid video if anyone is interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGiqqX78ZAk&feature=youtu.be