first 5 + lb. fish of the year

[FloridaBassAssassn]

I got out fishing for a few hours today. It was Blue bird skies and a stif wind at about 15 to 25 mph. Water temps were from about 47 to a high of 51 deg.
I got 2 fish in the first 15 min. The first one was a nice toad. about 22" long and a hair over 5lb. Sorry i did a lousy job of taking this pix.



The next one was 18 1/2" and maybe 3 pounds.



I was thinking man this is going to be a killer day, well I fish for another hour and a half and only got 1 more dink fish.

I got all the fish off of a Natural Shad colored Sink-N-Fool. Because of the bright weather I fished a light bait. It's a grayish pearl bait with large black, small gold and hologram flake. You can see the bait in the fishes mouth. That color has been one of my better baits. This is the log I pulled the 5 lb. fish off of.


If ya look close you can see a turtle on the lower left of the log. This lake has a trillion turtles in it. On warm days they are everywhere. LOL
I hope to go out again this weekend as the weather here for March has been amazing. Most years we still have 2 ft of snow on the ground and frozen lakes this time of year. YAHOOOOOOOOOOOO I love catching Fishes again.