Interesting fishing

Took the new girl out for a few hours yesterday after lunch. She has no experience with bass fishing, so I tied her a crank on one of my boy's spinning reels and showed her how to cast it. She got the casting thing down pretty good (better than I can with those little demon possessed mechanical engineering disasters).

She fished for a while then asked me if I was going to put some bait on the hooks, nothing is going to bite it with the hooks showing :doh::Rolling:

She did try a Texas Rigged Alchi stick a little bit. She liked it better since the hook was hidden. I thought I was fishing with Droopy, because she got a "nibble" on every cast.

Now this year, I've been trying to play fish a little bit more than my normal ski em on top back to the boat, especially when fun fishing as it does make it more fun catching them. Well, I was really wanting to catch a decent fish for her to see after catching a few little ones. We pull up in a neck that you can almost walk across because of brush being so thick everywhere. 1st cast, I set the hook and a nice 3+ lber swirled up to the surface. So, I horse it away from the brush pile, then get on the trolling motor and Bill Dance her a little (HR fish have fought harder this year than anytime I remember before). About half way back to the boat, the fish dives and I just hold tension letting it do it's thing. About this time, dummy me remembers that brush is everywhere and I've let it wrap me up. :doh:

After that, she wanted me to catch one on "one of those things with the hooks hanging off it", because she didn't believe a fish would bite it. Turned out she was right :thinking:

On another note, everywhere we went, there was schools of bait fish on the surface. Mostly from the mouths to halfway back. Water temps were 83-85*

 

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