Thanks!Originally Posted by MsgMills
We were feeling pretty good about our limit until We saw the bigguns coming out of Steve's livewell. That 5.25 looked a lot bigger than that until we got it on the scale. I was thinking 6.5+ at first glance.
Honestly, we caught much of our weight later in the day. One fish we weighed was caught on Bruce's second cast, but the rest were all caught after 11AM ... I think 2 of the 5 fish were caught in the last hour. We left active fish to get back in time to set up the weigh in.
We could have been a little better too. I broke off a fish that we would have weighed (probably about a 2 pound LM). And a 3+ managed to throw my hook right after we got to see him once. That one hurt me... It stayed on my mind until after the weigh in when we realized that neither would have made any difference. The one wildcard is that I had a fish on that we never saw. I never even got a hook set. I'm sure it was big. I never felt a hit and I was near shallow wood. I kept lifting the rod, thinking I was coming over it. Too late I realized that while I was lifting, my bait had moved 10 feet.
Oh well! It was a great day of fishing.
Good luck on the creeks!
Clint
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