My wife got a keeper

[bluebasser86]

With the nice weather Monday my wife and I decided to go try to get some fall fishing in. We went to a local lake that has pretty heavy fishing pressure that she has never caught a keeper out of. We usually catch a decent number of fish but lots of them are 13-14 inches, getting one over that magic 15" line is tough for anyone. I started off doing pretty well switching back and forth between a chatterbait, XR50, and KVD 1. My wife couldn't get them to eat a Booyah Boogie bait so I switched her to a small Academy H2O sqarebill. She caught a sunfish pretty quickly to at least get on the board. We made a quick move into a cove out of the wind and she quickly caught a small bass, but at least it wasn't a sunfish. A couple casts later she caught one that was about 13", another step in the right direction. As I took her picture with that one I said something like "keep fishing they keep getting bigger everytime you catch one." Next cast she got hit again and the fish was pulling drag on her little spinning reel and I thought it was going to be a smallmouth. Turned out to be a healthy largemouth that went 15.5 inches, her first keeper! She was proud of it and you can see where it's been caught before, proof of the heavy pressure on this lake.

As it turned out this was the only keeper bass put in the boat that night. I caught a smallmouth that was 16 1/4 inches but they have to be 18" to keep and as she put it "In a tournament I would have won cause you couldn't keep your smallmouth!" Can't argue with that logic