Big M area, October 9

[Quillback]

I roll into Big M at about 0645 and there's a truck by the ramp.  There's a guy there outside his truck, and he's wearing a jersey, except it looks like one of those MLF referee jerseys- has black and white striped sleeves.  Anyway he made a few casts then drove over to the other side of the park and went fishing on the bank over there.

Nothing wrong with jerseys or fishing off the bank, but seeing someone in the refs jersey wasn't something I have ever seen except on TV.  I got the boat in the water and got out of there pretty fast, didn't want to get a 2 minute penalty.

But the fishing was pretty good today - got a lot of bites, had a problem converting those bites into fish in the boat but I bet I had at least 50 bites and out of all those bites I only managed to boat 15 of them.

I had a good smallmouth on a Whopper Plopper that threw the Plopper right next to the boat.  Had another keeper sized smallie get off a crank, and to add insult to injury, a spot then grabbed the crank and it got off too!

Lost another good smallie on a shaky head.  Shaky head was the best bait for me today, 6 inch Roboworm on a 1/8 oz head.  Got a couple on the plopper, a couple of drop shot fish, and a couple on a crank.

Didn't find many drop shot fish today, there were a couple out there, but couldn't find them like last week.  Most of my bites were in 5-15 FOW, and the best banks had wind on them.  Steep banks and rocky points with wind were good today.

Saw a bass boat out there today off the bank on a flat, looked to be drop shot fishing.  5 guys in the boat.  I am thinking it could've been a guide with 4 clients.  

Surface temp 73.  Air temp was 41 when I launched!

 

[FishnDave]

Nice fish!

[liphunter]

Nice catch Jeff. 

Man you would have to be some kind of super dude to wear something like that. They don't just give those to anyone. 🤣🤣🤣

[Quillback]

11 hours ago, liphunter said:

Nice catch Jeff. 

Man you would have to be some kind of super dude to wear something like that. They don't just give those to anyone. 🤣🤣🤣

I went and looked at the MLF webpage and the jersey he was wearing looks like the one the refs wear.  

[m&m]

Jeff, sounds like you threw a bunch of different things at them. WT has really cooled off quickly. Healthy looking fish. 

Mike

[liphunter]

51 minutes ago, Quillback said:

I went and looked at the MLF webpage and the jersey he was wearing looks like the one the refs wear.  

Well it wasn't me. lol The closest thing I have that looks like that currently, is a suit I got married in back in 82... 

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, liphunter said:

Well it wasn't me. lol The closest thing I have that looks like that currently, is a suit I got married in back in 82... 

Yeah I knew it wasn't you.  

[curtisce]

Nice day, I've been fishing stockton here recently similar tatics and results. Maybe it's time to get back down to TR.

[Champ188]

Just guessing, but sounds like some squirrel without even a boat who signed up to ref for MLF. Been around the sport plenty long to know that with some of these guys, there's no limits to their obsession with emulating a pro fisherman. 

I feel for the real pros who have to carry these nutjobs around in the boat with them. 

[3DHUSKER]

LOL.  Since we painting with a real wide brush.  Like I feel for the real members here having to read the nutjob posts in this forum.   Some posts are informative but most are just entertaining.