Saturday, June 5, 2010

bass fishing (lake coutny forest preserve, il)

Neal and I headed out for a quick trip to Independence Grove in hopes dropshotting up some decent bass. The weather was overcast early in the morning and we were fighting off an ugly storm moving in from the west. This would be my only fishing trip for the next week due to an upcoming sales meeting with my company in Las Vegas, so I really wanted to bend a rod on some fish. Being early June, I really was surprised at the amount of weed growth that was already taking control of the lake. The weeds were thicker now then they were at the end of last year! We settled on fishing plastics around the deep weed edges in the early morning and switching to some of the deep timber later.

The morning was just awesome for Neal, and he was quickly catching fish after fish. They were just hammering the Berkley hand poured 4 inch worms he was dropshotting. I finally started to catch up by the time we left and I think we caught a total of 14 fish. Here’s the nicest fish landed.

a healthy lake county, il bass
The one that got away….. I’m not going to make up some astronomical number on its size or weight. Typically when people do that to me, I tend not to trust what they are saying. I will tell you this, it was the biggest bass I had ever seen. Mid morning fishing timber with a cotton candy zoom finesse worm on a dropshot I hooked this sea-donkey. I wasn’t working the bait aggressive, I was locating the timber and just shaking the dropshot stationary. I felt a solid tug and set the hook on this slob. I knew from the second it was hooked that this fish had some shoulders. I played it slow only to have the fish spit the hook when it jumped. I felt like I gave it plenty of slack when it came up to jump but it wasn’t meant to be. Just another fish story I guess…..?

11 comments:

  1. That is a nice bass, Blake. Fourteen fish! Sounds like a great way to spend a Saturday morning.
    Good writing also, I felt like I was there. I look forward to your next post.

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  2. Y'all did have a successful fishing adventure. Hey...I believe you about the "one that got away." Cool pictures of you prize catch!

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  3. Was awesome saturday morning, thanks Robert. Jean, I guess the one that got away is what keeps me comming back for more.

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  4. Hi my friend many thanks for the invite over on BC i look forward to getting to kow you

    peace and light from the wee tin can In the highlands of Scotland

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  5. thanks for stopping by... long trip all the way from scotland!!!

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  6. first time to be here. I'm following you now

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  7. thanks for stopping by heafy... come back soon

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  8. that's great, we always proud when we can catch fish. I like to tackle with Striped snakehead fish because it's a hunter of the river in Thailand,Feel very happy to catch it.
    And you guy, what fish is your love to catch?

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  9. I invite you to fishing in Bali, great fishing blog. I just followed your blog, thanks

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  10. About the one that got away...why on Earth did you give it a slack line when it was about to jump? That's most likely what cost you the fish! Tight lines always my friend...

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