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.