Broke outta the slump!!!!

[bamabassman]

well,well,well gang.........it looks lie i FINALLY broke out of my big fish slump today.

as i said yesterday, i went o guntersville lake this morning. AND I CAUGHT SOME FISH!!! hahahaha, it was a blast i tell ya.

i launched at 5:30 am. just as the sun was starting to come out or at least i could see good. lol. the skies were overcast and there was about a 5-10 mph wind. water temp,83.4 degrees. now all signs pointed to buzzbaits, and spinnerbaits. threw the buzzer and spinner for over an hour...nuthin, and i mean NUTHIN. they weren't even busting at the dragon flies or anything.
so i decided to go to my ol faithfull zoom lizzard. missed a couple of dinks. i actually got em to the boat side and they slung off, lol. so i figured it was gonna be another typical bamabassman day on the water. then i got a keeper, 15 1/2 incher. nice...i thought it would go good in the fryer so i kept it.
the i gots another one. BETTER. 2 1/2 pounder. great i thought, one more and i gots supper for a night.
then i got a 3 pounder. i am thinking now what is happening here? is this the way it is supposed ot happen? get little ones then go to the little bit bigger ones only to go back to dinks again? oh well, put it in the well john.
ANOTHER 3 POUNDER! dang it boy, 2 suppers now.

ok, i am feeling good now. i have caught 3 keepers and 3 dinks that went back in the river. good morning for me. and it ain't but 10 am. cool. i send pics ot the gang i have a number for and think i am doing just fine.

that is when the bite fell off the earth. nothin for almost 2 hours i think. so i go up river towards the boat houses. switch to the ol chrome blue back 1/2 ounce rattle trap and start slinging.
all of a sudden........WHAM! i set it (or jerk outta fright,lol) and reel like crazy. cuz it is coming RIGHT AT ME! get that slack out john i yell to myself. then she turned to the back of the boat. now under the boat. then to the FRONT of the boat. i am fighting her as hard as i can. she finally tires out and i get her in the boat. BOTH of us are pretty exhausted. i look at this BIG ol fish. measures 21 inches ont eh golden rule. girth is 10 1/2 inches. i look for my scales.........DEY AIN'T IN THE RIG!!! how much does she weigh? i figured she was around 5-6. HUGE FOR OL BAMA! icing on da cake gang.

i call lisa...again,lol. she is on her way now. no way she is gonna let me catch all htese by myself, hahaha.

so when she gets in the rig. i take her to the SAME places i caught mine so she ca try em. meanwhile i am still chunking the same baits in the same spots as before. i get a dink. lisa says lets go into jones cove. so i say ok and we head out for jones.

wtl, youwill know this spot i am gonna tell about. remember the little cove at the eand to the left? where i said i saw the REALLY BIG SOW near the beaver dam? that is where we went.

we don't get so much as a nibble. so i ecided to throw something different. i tell lisa i am jst experminting (ya'll can ask and she will verify this word for word too, hehe). 3rd cast with a blue/red headed and black and blue skirt double willow leaf spinnerbait. she hits. i mean she is huge to me. doesn't really fight much. i am trembling as i reel her in. i lip her and SHE IS MINE!!!! lis atakes a picture with her camera and then my phone (which some of ya'll got, hahaha). i then measure on the golden rule. SHE IS PAST THE 22 MARK!! I FIGURE SHE IS AN 8 POUNDER!


nw ehre is where i am TOTATLY confused gang. i get home, and yes i kept her cuz lisa is gonna have it mounted for me for christmas if we got the money. i know i said i wanted to wait till i got a 10 pounder, but she insisted and we need ot cover some of these walls in the new house.

back to confused part. on the golden rule she measured over the 22 mark. i get home and use my tape measure and she is only 11 inches long and 11 1/2 inches in girth. now how much does she weigh? i put it ont eh bathroom scales and it weighed 7.2 pounds. so it ain't a 8 pounder after all. the other big fish weighed 5 on the scales and measured 21 inches long and 11 inches girth. so help me out ont he actual weight. thaks gang.
all in all, i had a WONDERFUL day on the water. and i know that ol zooker was with me this day. then he and lisa helped me with the luck to get the biggun.

daniel said ehr would post the pics of all the fish fo rme. thaks man, oyu're the greatest. and thaks anthony for posting the pic of my biggun on theother thread. ya'll know i was a happy boy today. nuthin but smiles. thanks gang!!!