Deep-V-Fisher

I tell ya with as much as we have trolled the loz. We have on had a few small striper bites. Mostly bass and pretty big ones at that quite frequently.

I definately was not holding out in front of me, hahahaha that sucker was too heavy for that for sure. PM sent.

Pops is 6'4 260 and I am 6'0 230 if that helps gauge. hahahah. Dont know shoulder width off hand.

Yeah thats what i was thinking. It definately weighed more than a trolling motor battery. We all know how much those weigh. lol Believe it or not i have caught others on crank baits as well. here is a flathead i pulled in 2 years ago. Same thing. Crankbait.

Caught plenty of Bass and two exceptional Crappie. None of the bass were over 4-5lbs. Overall a great fishing weekend. Funny part is, I bought Dad a BPS CatMaxx 80 reel prior to heading down... you know, for his Fathers Day gift. All of this with dreams of catching Walter this past weekend. You know what i mean.....all of these big (dam) fish stories we hear about on TV such as river monsters. hahaha darn divers who claim to not want to go back down. yada yada yada Dad and I do a lot of trolling near docks and main channel. You can catch some monster bass along with many other species this way. Also you dont end up casting you arm out within a weekend of fishing. So i have this heavy duty catfish pole right? Well its at the dock and we are trolling the main channel with lighter Bass type tackle. Pulling a rapala deep diver. BOOM! The reel starts screaming. Tackle was just 20lb braid on a 4000 reel and before i know it the line is nearly gone. I have maybe 50 loops left on it and i proceed to tighten the drag even tighter than before and fight it out. I tell ya it was like what i normally experience saltwater fishing for shark or tarpon. Unreal the amount of energy this fish had. Unfortunately we didn't have a scale. What are your guesses? I think its a minimum of 50lbs. It felt heavier than a trolling motor battery thats for sure. Great Blue Cat fun for sure! Happy Fathers Day Dad! We will be talking about this one for years!

Yeah.... We have caught flatheads just the same on crankbaits. Crazy how aggressive they are and how they will hit a crank.

Fishing was really slow this weekend. Threw the whole box at them and only came up with two bass and a drum. All on crankbaits. The two bass were nearly back to back. Thought i had my all time lunker bass but ended up being the drum.

Going to be near the dam area. Hope this year is as good as the last few. Will post pics and whatnot come monday. Can today go by any slower? ha ha

Nice Bass guys.

Well i threw my whole Tackle Box at them over the weekend. Nothing seemed to work other than trolling the outer edge of docks with deep running rapala's. Total 8 bass most of which were around the 2lb mark... one nice one at 4lbs. Of course no pics.... forgot the camera back at the house. Seems the fish are still deep. No action on top water whatsoever. Got a nice size crappie on one of the deep runners too. Crazy how that works.

Yeah.... been there done that. Thanks for sharing the info though. Cheers

I hope to make this a good trip. This year has sucked so far for bass.

I have no insight near the dam area.

Although people many argue this..... The dam area has been a no go for decent fish so far this year. Dont know whats so different than other years. I caught 4 bass all weekend. All of them were less than 2lbs and two under a pound. Sometimes you really gotta wonder why a bass would attack something so big. the lure was just as big as the fish!

Should be a nice weekend. Will post a report if i get the gear out.