Great day and new personal best!

[Rebbasser]

Folks, today I had one of those days that come along every so often. My buddy and I were planning on fishing a lake south of San Antonio until he called me with a weather update-winds forecast 20-25 which means 30+ on the water and a 24,000 acre lake, so on to plan B. We decided to fish a lake north that really is a tough lake to fish.

We got on the water at about 6, and on the second cast I picked up a one pounder on one of my spinnerbaits. My buddy picked up his spinnerbait rod and by the time we finished fishing the stretch of timber we had boated 5-I had 4 to his 1. We moved to a few other areas throughout the day, and decided to head back where we started-I hadn't caught another fish and he had picked up 5. We went back to the timber we started in, and I caught 3 on a shad colored Strike King Series 1 crankbait and one on a wacky rigged baby bass/pearl swirl Tiki Stick. He caught 6 on a Zoom pumpkinseed U-Tail, including a 4-11 football.

I made a cast into the wind with the wacky rig and naturally got a backlash. I picked it out, and when I tightened up I thought I was hung up. I started pulling, and didn't notice anything until the line moved off to the left. I realized I wasn't hung up, and it felt like a good fish. The water was pretty clear-about 3 feet of visibility-and when I saw the fish it wasn't green-it was brown-so I knew I had a smallie. Got him in the boat, the last fish of the day, and had a new personal best 2-1 smallmouth. Took a couple of pictures and let it swim away. May not seem big to some of you northern guys, but to catch a smallmouth in South Texas is pretty unusual.

I figured we would be doing good to catch a couple, but much to my surprise we had a real good day-the kind that keep you coming back on those days you get skunked .

Nitro, we were on Canyon in the timber east of the Tom Creek ramp west and around the point from Comal Park on the south side of the lake.

[JB]

WTG Reb!
a two pounder is a nice one!

[WTL]

WTG, but when you said personal best I was expecting a pic of a 9 pound largemouth. That smallie is no slouche though.

[Rebbasser]

Forgot to say the grand total was 21 in the boat and we both missed 5-6 more.

[JB]

I bet you still have a sh¢t eatin' grin after a day on the water like that

..isn't wind great?

[pig n jig]

Rebbasser, When the chips are down because the snow has fallen to the ground, as you sit in winter wonderland wearing a frown. Who cheers you up ? Rebbasser does, thats who. Thanks for sharing your experience with those of us that are surrounded by snow banks and hard water. I went out and brushed the snow off my trusty old boat and casted a practice plug out in the yard .Thats as close to fishing as I will come to until another month or so. P N J

[flippin4it]

It is really good to hear about your outing, what was the name of the lake? I'm still chomping at the bit,waiting for my first outing of the season. I have been out,but only to "test fire" some of the gear picked up this winter.

[DStu22]

Reb, congrats on a fun day and your PB Smallmouth. Nice Going!

[crankybait]

yeah, congrats. id go ike if i caught a fish like that

[lizardsrule]

Wonderful day indeed. I will have to take a trip up north for the smallies I would really like to go out and catch several in a day. Even living farther north I still couldn't get the brownies . By the way, I beat my personal best today on the Greenies WTL, don't go shooting me after I put the pics up LOL

Lizards

[Christopherkeene9]

But you just recently caught your personal best like a month ago!!

[bass kicker]

sounds like you did good with your spinnerbaits cant wait until i get mine reb spinnerbaits

[bassintom]

liz,come to jersey..i'll put you on some excellent smallies...possibiliy of 5-6lber.

[bass kicker]

lake erie niagara river tones of them

[lizardsrule]

Originally Posted by Christopherkeene9

But you just recently caught your personal best like a month ago!!

Yep, but now I have a new best.

Tom,

I might just do that, but I want it to be a little warmer LOL

Reb, didn't mean to get off your post, again congrats, I really am jealous of the smallie.

Lizards

[bass kicker]

how big was the smallie 2 lbs i geuss you would like to get a 6 lb smallie and i would love to get a 10 lb bass we should switch for a while

[bassguy2004]

Great job Reb, it is great when a plan comes together. (A-Team) Twenty fish days are great. One of these days you'll have a 20 fish day and they'll be mostly 5 and 6 pounders. Great job. Keep after those smallies they get more wary as they get bigger. I hope you double your pb on the next one.

[crankybait]

ey tom could i possibly come along?