Video of my 9lb personal best!
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:54 am
Hi everybody,
I posted a few pics of my PB bass a few months ago in the trophy bass thread but I didn't give you all that much information, so here's the story!
We were fishing on a good sized lake in Eastern Oregon and the water was really low. Normally this lake has a lot of flooded cover but the lake was so low that there was almost none left. It had been hot for a few weeks, like 90 degrees and sunny, so we figured the fish would be somewhat deep since there was no shade. After catching a few fish I realized I was going to have to fish for largemouth's like I would normally fish for smallmouths.
In the rocky lakes out here my go-to has been carolina rigs for the past couple seasons. I caught a few more fish that way but I wasn't doing as well as my friends were. My buddy Gary recommended I try one of his homemade jigs so I tied it up on another rod. Being stubborn as I can be though, I stuck to my carolina rod for a while longer. After breaking off for what seemed like the 100th time, I finally started to throw the jig.
We were able to mark some nice underwater cliffs so I was casting out as far as I could parallel to them and slowly dragging the jig back to the boat. This fish bit pretty lightly and didn't seem like a big fish at all at first. It wasn't until she came up and poked her head out of the water that we knew she was a big one. It almost looked like she tried to jump but couldn't get herself all the way out! After that she tried to come up one more time. At that point I just tried to get her to the net. My buddy was able to net her, and that was that.
Here's the video!
https://youtu.be/QM5Q13G7znY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I posted a few pics of my PB bass a few months ago in the trophy bass thread but I didn't give you all that much information, so here's the story!
We were fishing on a good sized lake in Eastern Oregon and the water was really low. Normally this lake has a lot of flooded cover but the lake was so low that there was almost none left. It had been hot for a few weeks, like 90 degrees and sunny, so we figured the fish would be somewhat deep since there was no shade. After catching a few fish I realized I was going to have to fish for largemouth's like I would normally fish for smallmouths.
In the rocky lakes out here my go-to has been carolina rigs for the past couple seasons. I caught a few more fish that way but I wasn't doing as well as my friends were. My buddy Gary recommended I try one of his homemade jigs so I tied it up on another rod. Being stubborn as I can be though, I stuck to my carolina rod for a while longer. After breaking off for what seemed like the 100th time, I finally started to throw the jig.
We were able to mark some nice underwater cliffs so I was casting out as far as I could parallel to them and slowly dragging the jig back to the boat. This fish bit pretty lightly and didn't seem like a big fish at all at first. It wasn't until she came up and poked her head out of the water that we knew she was a big one. It almost looked like she tried to jump but couldn't get herself all the way out! After that she tried to come up one more time. At that point I just tried to get her to the net. My buddy was able to net her, and that was that.
Here's the video!
https://youtu.be/QM5Q13G7znY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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