I finally broke a streak that had been pissin me off. I guess it comes with fishing big baits. I went to lexington for the first which accounted for one of the skunks. That place is pretty cool. I didn’t fish muc as I went there for a “rowing and picnic trip” with the chick. I taught her how to use a baitcaster and as usual she picked it up in no time. I was surprised she didn’t stick a toad on her first cast using a “real bass rig”…haha
pic from the “rowing and picnic trip”

This fish broke my three trip skunk trip. This was the only fish landed. I lost one other BIG one at the boat. I should probably get a net when throwing these big baits!
8.1

I’m down for a few more skunks….as long as I get that magic 15+ fish

haha…rat thought he had a monster on and I was all stoked cause I was gettin’ a homie on what I thought would be a nice fish. One flash of orange and all of our hopes were quickly diminished. Rat got it to the boat real quick with his sweet new calcutta reel. But at the boat I wasn’t gonna grab that thing and rat sure didn’t want to either. A few tugs of the hudd, off the ugly creature went. What a start to a long skunky day! I was pissed cause I didn’t get a pic of rat and his beautiful carp too.

I love huddlestons! I finally broke down and bought a proper swimbait rod. Its the okuma guide select H 7’11″. After that I had to buy a hudd. I have been using one rod and the same swimbait for the last few trips since I dumped the ss jerbs. It has paid off. I now have lots of confidence in swimbaits. SO STOKED!!!
My self pic skills are kinda messed up now that I don’t have my tackle box to use as a stand. So i got crappy pictures of a few nice fish, but here are two fish where the pics came out.

7ish

13.12…tied with my old PB.. WEIRD!

O’yeah…swimbaits are tight!

I was fortunate enough to be in the right spot at the right time at the best trophy bass fishery in the bay area. I invited three friends, one of which was marone, none of them ended up coming. Boy did they miss out. The day started off slow at 8am as it did for me many of the consecutive skunk days here. I didn’t care how many times it took to get skunked here as long as I was rewarded with a 10+ in my first year of bass fishing…I was determined! I even bought a new scale that can handle the biggies and worked on my self photography set up where I put my camera on top of my tackle box on the back deck thingy in front of my motor. In the end I was rewarded more then I could’ve ever dreamed!

After drifting around for awhile the pontooner dude that was fishing the spot I wanted to fish in morning left so I anchored up in what I thought would be a good spot to fan cast a particular area. This is the only place on this lake that I have caught fish, hence the fishsniffer blurring. Anyways…In less then 10 minutes I got one in the boat at 3#5oz. So stoked cuz I finally broke my skunk streak. I then caught a 6#2oz a few casts later. To make a long story short I stayed anchored in the same spot, throwing the same exact blue and black jig all day long catching big fish after big fish. Every time I said I was gonna leave and go to a new spot after this cast I caught a fish so eventually I just told myself that I was staying in the same spot all day long. I lost track of the amount of fish caught and focused on the bag at the end of the day. Prior to this day I have never caught five keeper fish in one day. After catching five fish I decided I need a little safety meeting and decided to chill. While chillin I hooked a biggie, my jig was just sitting in the water! Unfortunately, I had a crappy hookset cause I was basically laying down in the middle of the ss jerbs. From then on there was no more chillin. I was determined to catch a 10+. I lost another 10+ in the middle of a few fish between 5-8lbs. I finally lost my favorite blue and black jig when it somehow just flew off into the depths w/ only 30 mins of fishing left. I was about to leave and then decided I’d tie a new brown one on and make a few more casts…What a genius idea! This last fish was an absolute BEAST! She weighed in a whopping 13#12oz. I was shaking so bad I couldn’t even get my camera stuff set up. eventually I got her photographed, measured with my canoe seat(which was almost the entire width of the seat) and released. Somehow in the mayhem I ended up with a bloody nose, which was a little pay back from the fish I assume. She got her licks in but I got the photo and memory to last a lifetime. Thanks to all the Bassturdz who have helped me with bass fishing in the past which has led to me landing the fish of a lifetime.

Results:
Best five fish(in pounds.ounces)- 7.2,7.11,8.2,8.14,13.12
Yup thats right…4 new PBs in one day. HOLY SHIT!

alrighty…now for the photos so you don’t think I’m blowin smoke, not that I don’t like too
I took ALOT of photos this day so I think/hope that I picked the correct ones and matched them with the correct weights.
7.2

7.11

8.2

8.11 A nearby friend in a float tube came over to take pic and I’m glad he did cause I messed up this photo on my own set up.
Thanks Rigo!

And the biggie…13.12
I couldn’t get the glare off the scale and got tired of taking pics of a scale so I got 13.blank2. I swear there was a one there…hahaha


photo:rigo

WHOA!!!! Sorry for the long post but this was the best day of fishing EVER!
Tight linez and new PBs to all Bassturdz this spring!

I IMd’ Marone to see if he wanted to go fishin in the JERBS, which he hadn’t done yet.He was down so we were off as soon as I got out of school and he got out of work. We had less then 2 hours to catch some fish. I think marone was tired of putting me on fish on his boat, cause he outfished me like no other and took full advantage of someone else handling the boat. I know he likes handling the boat and making sure other people on his ride catch some fish, so I was stoked to return the favor. I didn’t catch any fish on this trip, but technically I didn’t get skunked for the day cause I caught a fish earlier in the day before school.(see prior post) I think I’m addicted…haha

We got out and marone wanted to try some points after some tuber was in the the little cove I wanted to fish.
Good decision, for him!

After anchoring for no less then ten minutes marone’s on the board

Then while the dudes eating a sandwich he pulls up nice 5lber. As you can see he is sooo stoked.

I still haven’t caught anything and he pulls up another nice 4lb fish.

I’d say it was a successful day on the JERBS. It always feels tight when homies on your boat, or canoe, catch fish.
Right on Marone. Nice work dude!

I’ve been fishin’ out of the SS JERBS lately. I finally figured out how to launch that damn thing by myself…my car suffers a few scratches but its sooo worth it. I’ve been going to almaden lake, calero, and a private little pond. The bite has been real good with only two skunks out of about 10 trips. Way better then my 0-8 streak over the winter! I lost a monster after lipping it then dropping the fish which resulted in my line break and a bass swimming around with a tight jig in its mouth. Been throwin’ jigs almost exclusively. I found a new trailer that is SWEEET!!!!! Coyote bait has em’ right next to their jig section.
You can get this BAIT on the NET too…word.

Heres a few pics from my outings by myself.
yeah…i know small fish, but I’m proud of my new camera angles. Can’t wait for 10+ and my new pic technique

And one of the few from some night outings.

Rainy days with dano… 1.5 hours 6 fish for me, 3 for dano. good times!
No big fish, but very fun.

Caught this bad boy on the delta using a rattletrap. Thanks for puttin me on this hog Marone. I snaked the front of the boat from Marone for one second and this is what I caught. Trout poles represent!

Well…I decided to get completed annihilated instead of going fishing. Not really by choice, once the jack took over it was OVER! You can check out a sequence of the mayhem on my comments at myspace.com/thejerbs.I guess it wasn’t that bad of a decision after reading marones last post, but I still would’ve liked to be on the water. I’m sure I would’ve caught something too

I went night fishing at almaden lake on sunday night, since I didn’t get to get out all weekend. Within the first five minutes I got bite and missed the fish. It was a biggie, I was extremely pissed! After I got my jig back to check it out both of my tails to my hula grub are gone. WTF! I continued to work on my pitchin’. I got a minor backlash and after I fix I reel in and whadda ya know theres a little dinker on my line. The only fish I caught in about 2 hours…at least I didn’t get skunked. I’ll learn how to post pics next time.

Till the next adventure….cheers!