Personal Best Spot

[Mitch f]

Finally got a chance to go fishing for a couple of hours. Fishing was a little slow for a while, then hooked up with a big spotted bass on the bigger Hi-Def craw. Turned out to be my personal Best Spot.

[Hog Wally]

Nice spot.   In more ways than one.  Congrats mitch.  I've never seen one that big in the meramec watershed.   Winter has just started too.  What's next ?  

[Johnsfolly]

Congrats Mitch on a personal best spotted bass! That is a pig!

[rps]

My wife, who does not fish, caught the largest spot ever in any of my boats. We were on Broken Bow lake in Oklahoma in the late 70's. I had an old 18 hp Evinrude on the back of a rented boat. We were fishing Texas rigged lizards on a point. I was, literally, casting my bait and hers. She had a pickup in about 20 feet of water and jerked when I told her to do so.

She did a great job. The fish would have measured well over 20 inches and I would swear it was between 5 and 6 pounds. At that time, I did not know how close she was to a state record.

We already had fish for eating, so we let it go. No pictures, of course.

Different world, different time, different results

[Mitch f]

2 minutes ago, rps said:

My wife, who does not fish, caught the largest spot ever in any of my boats. We were on Broken Bow lake in Oklahoma in the late 70's. I had an old 18 hp Evinrude on the back of a rented boat. We were fishing Texas rigged lizards on a point. I was, literally, casting my bait and hers. She had a pickup in about 20 feet of water and jerked when I told her to do so.

She did a great job. The fish would have measured well over 20 inches and I would swear it was between 5 and 6 pounds. At that time, I did not know how close she was to a state record.

We already had fish for eating, so we let it go. No pictures, of course.

Different world, different time, different results

But great memories!!!

[Mitch f]

On a different note: I’m very cautiously starting to dig InvzX fluorocarbon line after several people recommended it. It seems very supple for 💯 % fluorocarbon line and has a smooth surface finish, which translates into less heat generated when cinching the knot, therefore no loss of strength. Haven’t broken off any fish yet, but I know it will happen. 

It’s expensive as heck though. 😖

[Quillback]

Nice spot!

Don't know if you know this, but TW has a sale on InvisX as part of their 25 days of Christmas sale.  It's about as cheap as you'll ever find it.

[Mitch f]

1 minute ago, Quillback said:

Nice spot!

Don't know if you know this, but TW has a sale on InvisX as part of their 25 days of Christmas sale.  It's about as cheap as you'll ever find it.

Thank you Sir! I’ll check it out!

[timinmo]

So here is what you do.  Go to TW, buy a gift card which is 10% off, turn around and use the gift card to purchase the line which is presently discounted.  Or come see me and we will go out for lunch you can buy.

[timinmo]

Oh, by the way great fish!