4/14 Trip.....The rest of the story...

[Steve McBasser]

Bill had been telling us about all the fish he was catching up at Stockton, so even though Gary and I had been planning to go to the Rock for a couple weeks, we decided to meet Bill and let him show us the ropes on catching whites. Well....we found fish right off the bat but couldn't get them to bite. We were throwing A-rigs with little white grubs on them but just wasn't getting bit. Gary gave up on the whites pretty quick and started throwing a worm for bass. He had a nice chunky large mouth in the boat in no time. Bill and I kept chucking the A-rig with no results when all of a sudden something BIG hit Bill's rig. Within just a few seconds he could tell it wasn't a white. Gary and I watched him fight it for a few minutes and then finally saw a big swirl when she turned and peeled drag. Bill could see her then but he had her on the other side of the boat out of our line of sight. He said it was a monster large mouth. I though "yeah right"....He held his rod tip high and dug for the dip net in the compartment on the other side of the boat. He grabbed it, dipped her, and swung her into the boat and Gary and I got our first glimpse  of her. OH MY GOSH!!! What a beautiful bass. After taking a few quick pictures, Bill gently held her over the side of the boat, gave her tail a little squeeze and she took off like a shot. We were so glad he invited us up to tag along. I tried for the whites for a little while longer and caught a few but didn't have the patience for it so Gary and I went bass fishing. We caught tons of stud bass and had a ball. Several times we caught fish on consecutive casts. Bill stayed after the whites and eeked out a limit but in the process ran his cranking battery down keeping his fish alive. Overall it was an awesome, beautiful and eventful day producing wonderful shared memories....What more could you want from a fishing trip?

[Kramr]

Awesome fish. Not sure of your battery setup but I keep a set of jumper cables now after almost not being able to start the motor one time. Figure I can use the trolling battery to start the boat in an emergency. 

[mjk86]

I love these reports and those pictures.