James River on 8/12

[Steve McBasser]

Gary and I took the Charger up river again from Cape Fair and caught a bunch of short bass and had a ball. The water temp was mid 80's and the air temp felt like a hundred. Found them schooling deep again so the little hammered jigging spoon was the best bait. They would push the bait fish to the surface every now and then and stayed up long enough to catch two or three on a little super spook jr before they went back down. When they did we'd drop the spoon down on them and pick up a few more. Running with the little short bass was some of the biggest whites I have ever seen. When I hooked one of them I could tell right off that it was not a little dinker bass. We probably caught 3 or 4 keeper bass total mixed in with the dinks and the handful of whites I caught were monsters. Fun day on the Rock.