Dave Buescher

Bill, Yes, watching her swim quickly away is also very humbling as to the thrill of the overall experience. My son learned those lessons early on and is quite the fisherman for his yong age. Actually he has read most of your post and has been bugging me for the last year to book a early spring trip woth you, so I guess you will be hearing from us soon. Thanks for all that you do for everone! Dave

Trust me She was all pure Small mouth, Her color as you can see in the pictures, most noteably the one showing more of her bronze back shows uniform color scheme. It was one of the deepest goldest Brown ones I have ever seen. There wasnt a mark on her.

Not exactly...I actually hooked a fish on the back corner of the dock and Phillip cast over me toward the bank. it was on the inside of a main lake point between 2 docks.

My son Phillip and I decided to fish the lower lake area on saturday. Turned out to be the right decision form the very first cast. We fished new water, 3 locations in all actually in the midst of all the rain (We had no rain gear.....Dad forgot to put them back in the boat) We caught quality fish on each spot, Phillip caught this 22 3/8" long beautiful SMJ on the third cast, she weighed 5.21 lbs on my digital scale. Her stomach and shoulders were huge it was by far the thickest one I have ever seen, she was an incredible fish. he also had another that was 2 oz under 4lbs fishing from the back of the boat making fun of dad of course all along the way. We caught all of our fish either on a watermellon candy twin tail grub or swimming a green pumpkin grub on 1/4 oz head. The only thing better than having a picture of a once in a lifetime fish for a 16 year old is to watch her swim away.. only to remember where she might live to try and find another day. Awesome day as always in the rain on the rock.