Best four hours this year!

Was out there Saturday afternoon with my son. We were goofing off more than fishing (that's kind of what happens with a 4 yr old...). Anyway, there 2 guys putting their boat on the trailer and I asked how they did. They said they caught a few bass up to 4 pounds on jerkbaits, spinnerbaits and chatterbaits. Then they told me they caught a monster hybrid. They proceeded to pull out a digital camera and show me some pics. WOW!!!! This fish looked to be 14" tall and they said it was 5-6" across the belly. I would bet my next paycheck it was every bit of 12 pounds if not bigger!

Jabbo has always told me there are hybrids in there but I've never believed him. I guess he's not that big of a liar after all.

[quote=smljaw;363095]Was out there Saturday afternoon with my son. We were goofing off more than fishing (that's kind of what happens with a 4 yr old...). Anyway, there 2 guys putting their boat on the trailer and I asked how they did. They said they caught a few bass up to 4 pounds on jerkbaits, spinnerbaits and chatterbaits. Then they told me they caught a monster hybrid. They proceeded to pull out a digital camera and show me some pics. WOW!!!! This fish looked to be 14" tall and they said it was 5-6" across the belly. I would bet my next paycheck it was every bit of 12 pounds if not bigger!

Jabbo has always told me there are hybrids in there but I've never believed him. I guess he's not that big of a liar after all.[/quote]

We were out there as well. We only caught 7 but three were over 16". One of which was closer to 18" the rest were small. I wish I would have went out Sunday. :)
Funny thing happened....we were fishing the second cove on the right and a Security guard calls some fellas over to the bank and asks why they are fishing the lake? They tell him in disbelief that it's a private lake and that they are members and even showed the BRIGHT badges that we wear.

He didn't believe them so they called us over to let the guy hear own side of the story. Of course we told him they same story and showed our badges but the guy wasn't 100% convinced so he was trying to call his boss to find out what to do.

Finally he realized that four guys with badges and several other boats on the water must be telling the truth. The fella was probably new and we took the high road with him by praising his efforts because I could tell he was starting to feel kinda dumb.

Yeah my buddy caught several good ones last year about this time on rattletraps. I have never caught one out there but I would love it!

You may have been better off not going Sunday. Jon went and said the wind was rough on him. He caught a few short fish. I think his biggest was 14".