My Turn to Report 5/10/16

[sasquatch]

Day started off on the wrong foot. Left my rod at home. When I left work, I nearly forgot my bait.

Made the trip home and joined my family at our local spot for dinner and to toast the memory of a family friend.

Got to the beach and saw fairly clean water and much smaller surf than expected. Tom joined me and we got set up.

Well, in three casts I lost two rigs, a problem compounded by leaving my headlight in the car.

As I re rigged repeatedly, Tom was getting some pretty good bites but nothing stuck.

My rod was silent do I kept moving around until I settled down in a decent spot.

I finally got a few bites, and one finally stuck.



Bites kept coming but it was getting late. We decided to call it a night.

As I rinsed my knife and cutting board I get bit. Throw my stuff to the ground and its on.

Lots of fun surface thrashing results in this guy.



68 inches. Not big, but fun.

[xjchad]

At least pros our weighed the cons Steve!  I wish I knew of a place up here that had big bass like that!
Sounds like the 7 fought really well too 
Also, those are great pics!  I need to get a real camera to take with me...

[spideyjg]

Was it less weedy than Saturday? Different locale right?

Jim

[sasquatch]

Those pics came from Tom's new phone.  Pretty darn nice.

I was enjoying the conditions weed wise after the last few trips. Funny how quickly they move in and out of a zone.

[Pinoyfisher]

That's a cute one! Much better than the 2 GIANT hold-fasts I caught. I also lost 2 rigs  

[Eric H]

Not the biggest but that's still cool.

I'm sure you went home happy.

[xjchad]

It just looks small because Squatch is standing beside it!

[vdisney]

You guys are getting 'er done, congrats...........V

[lamnidae]

So, that bass was 68"?  I would say it was a goodnight fishing considering the obstacles you faced.

[Latimeria]

Good fishing. Could have been great if I could have got one of my bigger hits hooked up long enough to Beach.
Glad the high confidence rig worked out for you.

[HalibutJoel99]

Wow Steve, That is a hog Bass!! Congrats! You had a rough go at first, that ended nicely!! 

[SurffishingSean]

Beautiful lunker bass and smaller 7! 

[SevengillTheVC]

Nice job Steve! We are certainly racking up the sharks so far this year. We went out last night and nabbed 2, 81" and 83".

[faster u fool]

Rad.