A real tussle!

While fishing for bluegill at Dale Hollow Saturday this big boy ate my 1/32 trout magnet on ultralight. Once he realized he was hooked he took off like a scalded dog and peeled line from my reel and headed for the woods. he went around a willow tree then headed for deep water. Yes I was panicking by this time. I trolled to the trees to get around the one he wrapped when the bass swam towards me and wrapped around my trolling motor shaft. Unbelievably he surfaced in front of me and got netted. I thanked him/her for the thrill of the day and let her go! And who says fishing is relaxing? Not me!

Don't know why picture is horizontal. not tech savy enough.

Those unexpected fish certainly give you a thrill and make your heart race.

That’s a big ditch pickle! I’ll bet that was fun.

Nice catch ! But how was the gill fishing??? Which end of the lake were you on?

I put in at Holly Creek Marina and motored over to Kemper Flats. Way too much boat traffic so i went to other side of Kemper up in Ferguson Creek as far as i could. Found a huge bed of active shellcracker. Dozens of monsters but they would not bite anything i threw. Backed off the bed for an hour and went back, still lockjaw. Those brutes would not touch bream killer below popping bug, trout magnet, Mepps Aglia, Mr. Twister, anything. Very frustrating. Caught one gill, one Rock Bass, and the big boy in the photo.

Wow! Beautiful fish and a great story. Congrats on the netting!
Bob

Always fun getting a nice sized bass on the light gear. Congrats!

Nice line stretcher!!


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I call them Bank Bullies….but they are fun on the UL gear!


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bass are exciting fish most of the time on light tackle
its hard to beat a flying air fish losing its mind ripping drag
one i still remember to this day in the moonlight
never touched it and it was not on my line long
but it was stupid big and got great air in the moonlight
nice ketch sir
KABOOM is the word

There is nothing like those air launches, and many times with U/L you just don’t get the hook set deep enough and your lure gets returned via air mail!:Rofl I will take a smallie over a trout any day. Love ‘Em both, but there is something about the attitude of smallmouth.
Bob