Sunday Report

[BigBassin144]

Hey guys, it's been a really busy summer for me. I haven't even had time to post. Between working and now I'm back in school and working. We haven't had much time to get out fishing, and by that I mean no time at all...

So my dad and I decided to take last Sunday off and head up to the lake. So we headed to the mudhole of a lake, launched to a bit a of a breeze, and got to fishing. The pad fields that usually dominate the shallow areas of the lake were almost non-existent. Water was at 63* and the clearest we've ever seen the lake, probably close to 3' visibility.

I started off fishing one of my swim jigs which I had done good on earlier in the summer. My dad started with a spinnerbait. Maybe an hour in to the morning, my dad catches a Bama sized bass.

I hooked up with a decent fish on a spinnerbait, but lost it at the boat... A bit later, I had a tiny fish take a swipe at my spinnerbait at the side of the boat and get hooked. I pulled it out of the water and to my surprise it was a yellow perch, which I didn't know they had in this lake. It was also a surprise because perch usually like deeper water, not 4' deep weedy water.



Around noon I hooked up with another nice bass, bigger than the one I lost, and landed it.



That was the best bass for the day, and my last fish for the day.

My dad hooked a few more bass including a chunky 2lb'er and another Bama Bass. We continued fishing for a while when my dad had a hard hit on his spinnerbait. He set the hook and there was no give. The fight was on and as the fish came to the surface, we saw it was a musky. I dropped my rod and grabbed the lip grips. My dad was using 30lb braid, which was good for the tensile strength, but it wouldn't stand a chance if it met the Musky's razor sharp teeth.

He got the fish to the side of the boat a couple time, but it would turn and run when I tried to lip it. I finally got the lip grips on him and he went berserk. The fish about ripped the lip grips out of hand thrashing around at the side of the boat. I pulled it in, we snapped a quick pic and revived it at the side of the boat for a few minutes or so before it finally slowly swam off.



This was his first musky landed since we started musky fishing at this lake probably 4 or 5 years ago. (I've only gotten two). I told him I'd post this Sunday evening, but never got around to it. So I'm taking a break from studying to share my dad's nice catch. Oh, and it went about ~3' and 12lbs on the lip grip scale.

We fished the rest of the day without a hit though, lol. And as a reminder: my bass, my dad's biggest bass of the day, and his musky were all hooked on the trailer hooks of the spinnerbaits. So go put a trailer hook on!

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