HEY! A KEEPER!

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Left the marina stall at 6:15 this morning. The forecast gave me 70/30 odds of being able to fish until noon.

Within 15 minutes I coaxed a 17 inch largemouth into slashing a Sixth Sense Splash Back 70. Another 30 minutes and that fish was still the only one.

I marked fish and bait fish at 27 feet and set up a jig rod and a vertical spoon rod. Minutes later, the thunder began. I headed to the marina and and was in the slip as the rain began. The irony is that as I trudged to the car, I saw an eruption in the channel outside the marina. What looked to be hybrids pinned a baitfish school and began to decimate it. I thought about going back to the boat, but even as I considered that, I watched a lightning strike split a tree on the other side of the cove.

So much for 70/30 odds.

 

[Quillback]

Congrats!

I love to fish, but not in lightning, I would've called it a day too.