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·Actually the day started out at the once famed Stick Marsh/Farm 13. After casting and casting till my arms nearly fell off I managed to get 1 decent bass to bite a gold XCalibur. It weighed 2-2.5lbs or so. I left this has been lake at roughly 2pm. For those of you who do not know this lake is connected to Ansin Garcia. So I loaded the boat and headed over to Garcia to salvage the day.
Started fishing roughly at 3pm and caught a fish on a wooden lipless crankbait. I won this bait on ebay and it looks and swims sweet. No rattles but it is different and fooled one fish so far. I switched back to the gold XCalibur and caught another fish. Then A little later I cast into sparse grass and thought I was hung in the grass so I actually did my rip jerk assuming I would be ripping my bait free from the "grass" Well the grass turned out to be a very nice fish. Check her out:
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Guess how much she weighed?
I guess this makes up for the big ones I lost a few weeks ago at night
Because I didn't even think I had this fish on and didn't set the hook right away then she ran under the boat and jumped behind me.
Here is the scary part though. She got a hook stuck in one of her gills and was bleeding pretty bad at first :sad2: So I put her in my livewell and after a few minutes I checked on her again and the water was reddish colored and had bubbles all in it. I removed her from that livewell and placed her in my next livewell with clean water. I left her in there for a while as I got my camera together and such. After I weighed her and took pictures and measured her always dipping her in the water on the side of the boat every minute so as not to sufficate her.
Well, when I released her I held her under water for a good minute or so and watched her slowly swim away she went right into the grass. I sure hope to God she was ok. When I got up I realized I was being watched by a 7' Alligator which was on the left side of my boat underwater hiding in the grass. I was holding this fish on the right side of the boat for a while reviving her which basically means I was holding a sandwich under water for this fairly large Gator :wack:. Thank God nothing happened.
Here is the gator right next to me.
This was not more then a few feet away from me at this point. Yikes. I hope the gator didn't eat my bass when I released it? (I would have inserted the praying smiley but I guess Jared removed it as I don't see it anymore) There is plenty of grass for the bass to hide in there though .
Anyway, I caught 8 bass at Garcia all on lipless. The Aruku shad caught me 5. I lost several also. So I had a good day. It was a pretty windy day as usual today. Nice all week then nice and windy on the weekend. haha.
Started fishing roughly at 3pm and caught a fish on a wooden lipless crankbait. I won this bait on ebay and it looks and swims sweet. No rattles but it is different and fooled one fish so far. I switched back to the gold XCalibur and caught another fish. Then A little later I cast into sparse grass and thought I was hung in the grass so I actually did my rip jerk assuming I would be ripping my bait free from the "grass" Well the grass turned out to be a very nice fish. Check her out:
Guess how much she weighed?
I guess this makes up for the big ones I lost a few weeks ago at night
Because I didn't even think I had this fish on and didn't set the hook right away then she ran under the boat and jumped behind me.Here is the scary part though. She got a hook stuck in one of her gills and was bleeding pretty bad at first :sad2: So I put her in my livewell and after a few minutes I checked on her again and the water was reddish colored and had bubbles all in it. I removed her from that livewell and placed her in my next livewell with clean water. I left her in there for a while as I got my camera together and such. After I weighed her and took pictures and measured her always dipping her in the water on the side of the boat every minute so as not to sufficate her.
Well, when I released her I held her under water for a good minute or so and watched her slowly swim away she went right into the grass. I sure hope to God she was ok. When I got up I realized I was being watched by a 7' Alligator which was on the left side of my boat underwater hiding in the grass. I was holding this fish on the right side of the boat for a while reviving her which basically means I was holding a sandwich under water for this fairly large Gator :wack:. Thank God nothing happened.
Here is the gator right next to me.
This was not more then a few feet away from me at this point. Yikes. I hope the gator didn't eat my bass when I released it? (I would have inserted the praying smiley but I guess Jared removed it as I don't see it anymore) There is plenty of grass for the bass to hide in there though .
Anyway, I caught 8 bass at Garcia all on lipless. The Aruku shad caught me 5. I lost several also. So I had a good day. It was a pretty windy day as usual today. Nice all week then nice and windy on the weekend. haha.
